Mid-Colonial Island Adventure Setup & System HelpHello fa/tg/uys and a happy new year. I'm planning a new campaign and would appreciate your collective wisdom. I'll lay out the pitch and would like your thoughts, ideas, and especially system recommendations.The year is roughly equivalent to the early 1700s. The players are new arrivals or long-term residents of an island colony. Mere weeks after their arrival it becomes apparent that no ships from the homeland arrive. Ships sent out for help or trade simply vanish. The colony is now utterly isolated. Resources are finite, society is beginning to crack, and the unexplored interior holds ancient secrets.>Resource ScarcityNo contact with the outside world. Every nail, bolt of cloth, and ounce of gunpowder is precious. Gold is the main currency, and it matters—for buying scarce supplies, hiring help, bribing officials or mayby hiring trainers if gold can be tied to character advancement.>Low-to-Mid MagicMagic is rare. Players won't be casting spells at the start. It's something discovered in the forest ruins or bargained for with strange spirits mid-campaign. Church sanctioned magic is the exception with high ranking members of the faith having access to considerable magical power.>Healers for Hire There are a few lowly priests of the faiths that can perform rudimentary healing rituals but demand some gold or favors. This type of healing and warding, especially against diseases, is used by the church to maintain power and influence. They're NPCs, not party members, at least initially and the most common source of magic.>Zero to HeroI would really like for the player to start really low powered. More akin to semi-skilled commoners than competent adventures and it should take time for them to actually become strong and capable. I would like for them to eventually become big players in the island. Maybe even hold titles or positions of power.
>>97277102You probably want to skip ACKS. The autism and granularity is not on a healthy level, and you're going to end up wasting far more time just going through its "procedures" than you likely would even just making a whole brand new system out of wholecloth. The quality of the rules really leaves much to be desired, and it is all built around some odd assumptions regarding its "roman-esque" default setting, and most of the game seems inadvertently (and occasionally deliberately) designed to be as un-fun as it can be. I have no idea why anyone would recommend it beyond them never actually using it.OSE serves as a solid foundation though, and is a much tighter and more more polished system. Sure, it doesn't do much beyond updating some now-ancient rules a little here and there, but it's generally inoffensive ruleswise and fairly accessible.>SotDLIt's an odd one. Part of me really wanted to like it, but the "tone" of the game never really suited me and my group may have actually started to actively dislike it, because every so often it would get unnecessarily edgy. The real thing that got me though is how the Boons/Banes should work well in theory, but in practice the d6 is a little too unwieldy for the purpose. I feel like using d4's could have helped in regards to smoothing over some of the odd randomness, but you can't really build a system around constantly rolling d4s (because they don't roll).
>>97271332I really like this aproach, where everythings count. Low magic but having to bargain with spirits, its also my jam.Systems, Beyond the wall for his magic system/having a village/colony sounds apropiate if you go OSR like. Mythras, wich si very good for anything down to earth, would be my second option for system. I really like the Colony stuff, tough I usually go for the bronze/iron ge amalgama with lots of inspiration from conan and other pulp stuff. Of late I been reaing books about whaling (because its the nearest thing to monster hunting we have done) and only one whale like a right whale would be a boon for any colony or village, so monster hunting and hte rest could be very well be the diference with starving or being secure.
>>97271332You could homebrew that off of ReConquest very easily. The skill system would work and the magic may also (the magic is generally rooted in Scandinavian folklore and has usage conditions and restrictions associated with that, maybe alternate it so that natives have their own rules for casting magic, colonists also do, different gods and spirits respond to them, learning the other's magic would probably be an ordeal and require being accepted into the other culture as one of their own. It also natively has that divide between folk tradition magic and church magic, with sorcerers dealing with spirits and bards using divine magic)It also has a system built in for terrain generation and exploration and very detailed rules for travel, survival, building frontier societies. The game is about resettling a 'lost' continent.It's a completely different flavor, but that's easy to change up for your own use. Oh, and the system was made by an autistic white nationalist and convicted murderer, if that matters to you.>>97271531One thing to consider is that gunpowder does not need to be imported and can be made rather simply. Conquistadors made it after arriving in the new world. The ingredients are simply sulfur (found near volcanoes as mineral deposits), charcoal (burning wood), and potassium nitrate (saltpeter) which can be found in bat guano deposits (caves). Basically, even an isolated colony could likely produce their own gunpowder. Depending on the timeframe of your setting they may also be aware of the "French method", of isolating saltpeter from urine primarily from stables, that began in the late 1700s.
>>97271332so the colony of roanoke well it sounds like a perfect fit for mythras to me. these low power, commoner to hero, low magic kinda realistic games are the type of games it excels at
>>97280104colonial gothic is also an underrated game that i ppreciate and would fit very well what you re trying to do
Out on Patrol Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Updated the timeline. This reminds me we need to re-write some of the wiki articles to take into account the lore updates, particularly those related to the Second Oriental Crisis and the Italo-Ethiopian War.
>>97275322>I really like the volumetric thing you have going with the edges.Ok, I'll try to keep those. > USAOk, gonna try to get it done for this evening, here's the New Alamo Outlaw. Very cheap, low Discipline, that will likely require you to use Ambush mechanics or loading up on Alcohol to get them to push through the mid and late game. Thinking there could be some campaign mechanics (maybe a Criminal sponsor?) where that roll may turn into a promotion mechanic. Any feedback on switching the Gunslinger to a Specialist profile?
>>97279360Stage Coach. Lots of rules, but I think it should be simple enough once it hit the table. Shelter rules are for the Frontier Settler, if you load on them then all you have to do is give your passenger Warm Meals and you'll recoup a part of your cost. Not enough to turn it into a legitimate econ engine, but a start. RAW there's nothing to prevent you from using the Stage Coach's Embarked models for the various Ambushes, so there's a bit of gimmick there to pull as well. (Fml new kitten likes to tapdance on my keyboard I had to rewrite this twice already... )
>>97279360Now that I think of it, could we make a gunslinger unit that is a "bounty hunter"? Maybe it gets twice the amount of silver from the units with the "criminal" keyword. There are so many variations of the "gunslinger cowboy" we could use (plus, it's fun making their art).
>>97279360>Gunslinger as SpecialistI'd be alright with that, but could we have a ranger trait that lets you take them as Elite? That way you could still have a posse
New Year Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279690Yes
>>97279342The most recent game I ran, which went to level 16, actually had the players operating out of a home base for more than half of the campaign. My bigger issue with bastions is that most of the effects aren't particularly interesting.
>>97279342Just have a frontier fort or something with a lot of area to explore around it. That way, you've always got somewhere to return to, even when you run off in pursuit of whatever immediate goal.
>>97276731I actually find all of that very appealing and diegetic, too.
So what do you put on a DM screen, and are there any recommendations for how to make one?To reiterate.
Anyone play it yet? I like the "rustic fantasy" setting. The core rules seem interesting, it has more mechanics and gameplay than most other narrative games. I enjoy that it doesn't have moves or whatever to confine you, you can actually play your character and do whatever you want. It's got enough knobs and options in terms of resolution I feel like it's actually a real game despite having that more story focus vs simulation focus. And I like that the DM has all the traditional power of the DM and there's not like "Fate Points" or something else that gives players control to change stuff.Thinking I might try a short game for my table, just a few lower powered sessions. It also has good tools for a solo stuff which is interesting.
>>97278001TRVKE
>>97278191OP here. Id discourage downloading the pdf illegally. There are quick start options and plenty of info on the official YouTube! You can know if it’s for you without stealing!
>>97279932brb downloading the pdf and distributing it to my friends because you said not to
>>97277946No one makes advertising revenue on 4chan, that is fan fiction by the discord rats who hate this board
>>97276085Never even heard of it.
>Be me.>Lord General of the Nordican 1225th/ defacto governor of Nordica II.>For the last few years we've been abandoned by the wider Imperium to an ice world that very much resembles our home.>In that time we've constructed the city of New Yur.>A sprawling metropolis surrounded by a network of trenches visible from orbit dug by the kriegers and valhallans.>We've also made more or less peace with the orks we were originally sent here to fight, and even made alliances with the ruinous powers, but those truces only last for one day a year.>A day that is fast approaching.>Candlemass brings peace, but also war to Nordica II every year without fail.>This year however the orks have decided to convert the former colloseum constructed by khorne worshipers in the ruins of a space hulk that crashed here into an arena for a sport they're apparently calling "Blood Bowl.">I will be attending the first of these games on Candlemass day, which is set to pit greenskins against some surviving khorne worshipers they've captured.>Emperor willing this will be the beginning of true peace to our world.>But knowing Candlemass that seams unlikely and I'll be waiting the whole time for some new threat to emerge.
>>97275005>>97271957>>97272427>>97268457>Be overlord Komei>After teleporting the malal champion down I sat down to enjoy the game>Giving me some ideas this thing, the main problem is that the teams are too chaotic, too disorganised>Think of what I could do if I owned an entire team, or even as a franchise! I could turn it into a fun event for an entire dynasty!>The game progresses well, and the eldar put up a good fight against the slaaneshis>Debating with myself if I shouldn't go down and offer to buy the eldar out when I get a call from Sobek>She's complaining about some stupid Tyranids or something, I don't really pay much attention>Put her on mute>Then her immortals teleport down and start trying to forcibly drag me away>Sigh, call up Sobek and pretend to listen to her paranoid ramblings about these tentacle things and reassure her that I'll be coming up>I only have one last surprise to ring out the seasonComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97276171>>97275975>>97272340>be Spencer >and happy fraking new year to me >not like its confusing having to teleport to all these different planets to do shit for the sect/maybe inquisitor/probably alphairus long winded plans to keep these sector alive for i suppose the same reason we didn't just abandon the cold shoulder sector >its chill enough i guess as the dark eldar (who knows looks like shes barely out of her preteens) hands me some more drugs and a card " Dracon Baessira, Coal Hearts Kabal. Call us if you're naughty or nice" >"thanks">mentions something about 6 hours almost being up involving "krampi daemons">wat?>its been days>or>has it been?>might be a "warp hour" or something time is fucky therebythesecretcreatoroftheemperorYakub.myheadComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97277342>>97276171>>97272340>be da red mek>and dis aint how i thought it go down when i woke up taday>dat chaos spawn git slammed be through a wall >twice if you count punting me 'ead >which i DO!>anyways i landed in some kind of squig sleigh >wifout da squigs >da humie cracked da whip and da>zog i dunno what dey are >started running on da air >i walk da humie through fixing me 'ead>i had to trade her me flamea fer her neck bling since dats the only thing hard and neck shaped enough to keep me head onComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>97273040>>97274938>>97275975>Be Hot Krampus, Lesser Daemon of Slaanesh >The clocks strike six >The Krampusmas Harvest has come to an end, and I return to the Halls of Eternal Punishment >Me and my colleagues have rounded up thousands of the worse souls on Nordica II to bring back to the Halls of Eternal Punishment for our amusement, plus the tainted weapons given to the Drukhari and certain Kriegers have netted us thousands of additional souls >It was a good harvest, though I am still a bit disappointed I didn’t find the time to grab everyone on my list, including a few Guard officers like Kate who were always surrounded by armed men during the six hour period >The Drukhari have also escaped their fate, although I am not surprised that they foresaw the need to ditch their tainted weapons before the six hours was up>We will spend the next few months playing with our new toys, before spending the rest of the year alternating between play and identifying and often aiding targets we have selected for next year’s Krampusmas Harvest >A few of us stay behind to complete other missions, including Old Krampus who is arranging some things for Hen-tai. Some of us will also rescue Snake Dick Krampus, eventually, if we feel like it >Toy #1 for the evening is a degenerate noblewoman whose affairs and fetishes directly and indirectly led to a number of deaths among the Imperial nobility, I grin from ear to ear as I ready my bundle of daemonic birch branches for a good lashing...
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm looking for Lord_Chronos tiny space elves. They've been taken off of cults. Is it worth bothering with the blue app for chances of finding it there? I've never used it before.
>cults are flooded with jeet scam spamOh great
>>97255035Thanks, anon, found them using the names you listed. Preesh.
I want to buy a printer, but I also don't want to drop a significant amount of money on something that I am going to have to then spend even more money on to replace once I hit the clear and obvious barriers the printer has as a "starter" option. I have $1,250 to blow, what're my options?
>>97280107Resin or fdm? Either way, that's way more than you should be spending. Even Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16K is like $400.
What does /tg/ mean by Biel-tan? She only did it once.
>>97279642Aha, get it? Because Jessica Biel only tanned once? Haha? Man fuck you OP.
>>97279661>>97279679But that's how I ended up here on 4chan, searching Jessica on forums, there is a lot of talk about biel (tan) on 4chan
>>97279642This is a vintage style of meme.
>>97279661Retard. Newfag.
>>97279642It clearly refers to the colour idiot
Flaming edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279061Fucking where? I tracked it back to /trash/ and there was no full.
>>97278913Ok retard
>>97279803>this but then the next set has an african setting
>I can see thousands of high res galleries of cards on websites pretty quickly>cant have good res on Arena cards because 2heavy4u?
>>97279708Mirrodin was one of their first forays into actually leaving Dominaria as a setting and mesoamerican stuff wasn't big at the time. Not surprising they weren't very experimental with it.
Holiday cheer editionPrevious:>>97223714Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqSeasonal TQ:>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?>Will anon repeat his autistic data gathering endevour this year?Actually interesting TQ:>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
TTS committing suicide by allowing people to get paid for mods
>>97279747>ill sell itMy time is actually valuable thanks
>>97279955>curatedThis is going to be custom game pieces not pirated games or they'd get big sued
>>97280014nobody would pay for game pieces. some mods I could people paying for (they're much better than the official DLCs they've been selling). Except it's gonna be a massive shitshow, given that a lot of current mods were 95% taken from somebody else's version and then tweaked.
>>97279955now to think which mods are worth backing up before it's too late...
First thread of the year edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97261720>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279891I'd call you a dumb whore with a fat ass
>>97279891There's only a handful of armies in 4th where they weren't ludicrously dumbed down, so you're in the same boat as most people
>>97279930ghoulchads stay winning
>>97278243It's sold out in the US too, it's sold out everywhere that matters. Please just try to add it to your cart and see if it works. And since it's sold out on the page, people do sell the magazine on the secondary market, but they do so for thirty dollars. This is one of the only times the box is cheaper than the hatchette.
>>97279720like 5 man mortek or 5 man large construct?OBR is kinda messy at this point. Originally I didn't mind mortek but they've been rebranded as jobbers now, they cuck to barrowguard pretty hard for some reason when they used to the supersoldier version of them. They need some 32mm sized units to succeed Mortek at this point.
>the dark lord just wants bitchesIs this a good villain motivation?
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>>97258165Oh absolutely.
>>97275563Sort of, but not quite.He was already wandering around Ansalon in service to Kitiara and Takhisis before he encountered Laurana at the battle of the High Clerist's Tower. She either reminded him of his elven wife and it was instant desire for her, or instant desire for revenge on elves using her. Kit's plan is to present Laurana to Takhisis and get as a reward the Crown of Power.In return for his assistance Kit agrees to ask that Laurana's soul be given to Soth, though at the same time Kit promises Tanis to release Laurana into his care. Takhisis agrees to give Laurana's soul to Soth but of course that never happens. There's a bit of a scuffle and it turns out that Laurana is protected the the gods of goods so Takhisis couldn't do it anyway.At the end of that scuffle Soth says Kit has amused him and as an undead he might wait for her, which might be the moment that he pivots from Laurana to Kitiara.
>>97275612Well done to your DM, that sounds like a really great plan and good on him for adapting his ideas to fit in with what you guys were doing.
Previous thread:>>97209588>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97278715>lmao janitors too young to know iam12 I am 12 and a bit. What is this and what is the problem?
>>97279760I'd say so. The details look a bit shallower and you got all these print lines present. The almost impervious release agent at least could slowly be brushed away or slowly covered in several primer attempts>>97279805It's a halfling jouster from their half tilt game. It's a fun enough little game
>>97280025Arent halflings under maxmini though ?
>>97280048Nah, it's under "other games" and "half tilt". This was the guy I was specifically crying abouthttps://ttcombat.com/collections/half-tilt/products/halyas-bambleberry
>>97279760I got a mini where part of it was just missing, it was cast resin and either there was a huge bubble or they didn't use enough resin. I don't know how they get away with it.
Work in Progress, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279903first test clown stupid fucking mold line and all
>>97280018That skull looks sick, I just think it needs some 40k-specific augments/cybernetics/clothes and it would be perfect (yarrick style eyepiece?)
started the second Ushabti
>>97280001Thanks, I'll strip it.
>>97279903Aaaagh fuck.I need to finish my own pack of Ruststalkers and Skitarii cohorts. Fuckin' things have been stuck in my attic for the past year.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What are some good EU books and comics from specifically before the release of the prequels to read once you're done with the original Thrawn trilogy. They can be any subject, jedi vs sith, scum and villainy, rebels vs empire/remnants, etc.
>>97279863>Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy>Splinter of the Mind's Eye>The Truce at Bakura>Courtship of Princess Leia (cheesy but in a good pulpy way)>Young Jedi Knights series (YA novels but introduced a lot of post-endor lore)>Jedi Prince series
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>>97279947No X-Wing books?
>>97280067Figures you had already read those, but yeah, the X-Wing series should go there as well if you haven't read those.
the paid dm defenders have always said they help people with no friends, but the last few months they are being promoted as>fun for friends>give your dm a break>let your group try a new systemim talking ginny d, reddit, forum posts, irl in-store. in all seriousness will people fall for this instead of having one of their friends dm
>>97278505So you acknowledge that >>97278264 is a real problem? Great. Glad we had this little chat.
>>97278628>>97277277>>97278155Read the thread, then weigh in. Dipshit.
>>97277277>an unpaid DM using AI to generate tokens/ambient scenes or solidify his notes and ideas into usable content/encounters/adventures and I'm tired of pretending otherwiseThe one AI-using DM I had was an absolute nightmare. The AI tokens and scripts made the their campaign feel plastic, and he couldn't DM without them. The moment things didn't align with his plans and the prompts, he literally shut down and couldn't adapt. When he got upset with players, he would have ChatGPT go through transcripts of past sessions to make grievance posts which he would send through Discord.
>>97279923>>97278264You read it first, moron.
>>97266322I wasn't aware paid DMing needed defending. If you don't like it or want it, don't engage with it. Personally, I'd be more concerned about whatever your life is lacking in that you have time to care; this is my advice for most instances of "stop liking what I don't like" as it happens. All of that being said, paid DMing came about because it supplies a demand. To wit: running a game, in both narrative and mechanical terms, in a way that is competent, entertaining, and engaging remains a niche skill in what was, until fairly recently, a niche hobby. Then, the perfect storm of Stranger Things, Matt Mercer, and 2020 happened, and all of a sudden we find ourselves in a hobby that is overrun by normies with room temperature IQs, and all of them want to play, yet very few are willing or able to run a game.The forever DM phenomenon is as old as the hobby, but for some reason there's this assumption that forever DMs are so because nobody else wants to DM, and that's only part of the issue, the other side of the coin is that few people, especially in the hobby's current state, are able to run a game worth playing in the first place. Speaking anecdotally, the experience of thinking I'll finally get a chance to enjoy a game as a player, only to quickly realize the aspiring DM's prep was minimal to non-existent, their understanding of the rules is journeyman at best, and it's impossible to immerse myself in their narrative because they don't have one, has become a running gag.That's not to say I don't appreciate the effort, or that I won't sit through a slog of a campaign to provide a friend with guidance and feedback, because I do, and I will, but few things hit like a game run by someone who knows what they're doing, and that's what I, and apparently, enough people for there to be a market, are after. So yeah, while for friends I'm happy to run a game for nothing more than pizza and a thank you, if other people are willing to pay me, I'm willing to get paid.
