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
Are paid DMs still a thing now that the fad is dying out and there aren't as many normies desperate to be part of it?
>>972663505ers think dming is hard. some smart paid dms went to some dndtubers to advertise.it's kinda booming
>>97266322Who cares?
>>97266322I'd be more happy that people are able to eke out a living running games online for randos, but knowing that they're just running the same handful of sessions of Curse of Strahd over and over and over 50 times a week is such a deeply depressing way to monetize the hobby and I think that is the punishment for their hubris.
>>97266365>5ers think dming is hard.5e is a fairly hostile system that doesn't give direction to its DMs (but is paradoxically dirt-simple for players), but GMing in general isn't easy and I'm tired of pretending it is.
As paid DMing continues to emerge from the shadows it's primarily resided in, I think more people will come to see it as its own thing and not a replacement for unpaid DMing, just like prostitution is its own thing and not a direct equivalent to unpaid sex.If you're giving someone $300 for an evening of entertainment, there's certain things you can expect from them and even demand from them.
>>97266365>it's kinda boomingntaWhat's the going rate for a paid GM? How does this even work?>per session with a contract about how many sessions it is going to be? >per hour? >per personally written adventure? >per module? idgi
>>97268635From what little I know, it varies but usually it's an hourly or per session rate, each player being charged individually so they're incentivized to use their time as best they can
>>97268635The few places I've seen tend to do a charge per session, per player. Every who wants to play pays up like 10-20 bucks up front and then the prostitute runs a game for them for 4-5 hours. Seemingly, most people who are willing to pay for these things are not looking for very much nonsense, so as long as the game happens and moves along at an okay pace, they will gladly keep showing up to play and go through the bare minimum motions.
>>97266322what is ginny d
>>97268569Yeah, it's pretty terrible that d&d is the patient zero for gaming, the dmg is dog shit and even the "good" campaigns require massive reworking. It doesn't help that more and more people are coming in from d20 and CR, so they assume the bar for game mastering is high when, in fact, it is not.
>>97268714>ginny ddnd youtuber/influencer. like Pointy Hat or Questing Beast. people that come from CR and actual plays tend to watch them>>97268635what >>97268658 says. and sometimes a deposit for.. some reasonthere can be dm tiers too>$50 for curse of strahd>$100 for a custom job>+$50 for smoke and lights
>>97266350rpgs are dying? what's the next fad to replace it because here they're still growing
>Ginny D>Paying her to be my personal Dungeon Masterisn't that illegal in most states?
>>97268601You want to fuck the dungeonmaster?
>>97269151For $300 that at least entitles a happy ending.
>>97268601You want to work on your art?
I once got into a group for a lesser system and the guy who was running the session had zero ideas at all, kept asking us what we wanted out of the game, like time period, story, setting, etc. Turned out halfway through setup he was a paid DM who wanted to use us to practice, hence his need to please. I left the group.
