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Originally Posted by Vyvyan Basterd

I still question whether anyone would pay your fee. I can't imagine any circumstance where I ever would. Your price-per-person for a group of five could buy a copy of any of the published adventures on Amazon with some change left over. And the adventure would provide at least 4 4-5 hour sessions. For a group of five it places the cost at roughly $1 per person per session to run an adventure like that for themselves (free now that WotC has put up KotS for free). I understand the value of not have to prepare and run the adventure yourself, but the cost difference between $1 and your $25.20 per session would place some big perspective on the value of having you run it instead of me. Especially considering now that most opinions (even those who dislike 4E) center on the fact that 4E is easier to run and more fun for the DM.

I wish you luck, but I'm still not seeing the market for this type of service. Too many people provide this service for free.

Agreed.

Your website looks good...professional and well done, if a bit of a menu nightmare on the left-hand side.

Your marketing content's not bad either, though you stress family-friendly an awful lot, which I HIGHLY doubt is the way to go. Are you marketing to gamers, gamers' parents, both, or something more general? I think you're failing in this regard, but you obviously have the tools to improve this area. Work on that.

But your pricing...is...atrocious. I would not pay you this rate for what you do. None of my friends would. Many of my friends LOVE to game, but hate DMing. I'm moving to Cali, so they will be without a regular DM. Guess what? ...they would still never pay your rate. Ever. I can't think of a single gamer of all the ones I've met and played with (and believe me, I'm talking of well over 100 people that I know personally [in varying degrees, of course! I'm not that popular]).

I'm not trying to be mean...you've seen my other posts, and I obviously WANT to like what you're doing, and WANT to respect what you do. But there's no way you'll get this rate, certainly not regularly enough to make it worthwhile.


And the person who posted about your overall profits has the right of it. Unless you're fully booked with clients at the rate you're asking for, you are screwed. And frankly, your rate is ridiculous, so you will never have that much of a client base to even approach fully booked.

If you need interview help, head on over to your local bookstore and look in the self-help section. Honestly. Lots of people immediately think self help = bullsh*%, but you're not working right now, so what have you got to lose if you go to the bookstore and just skim a few books on interview processes, negotiations, etc.?

And there are definitely tons of jobs where you work...as I mentioned, I have a friend out there, and he sees stuff all the time. You might have to dig around a little, but it's there. And it's a lot more lucrative than your business model.

PM if you want interview advice. I've worked for over 35 companies, several of them very big national and international companies. When I go on an interview, I find that I am almost ALWAYS hired on the spot, or by the second interview (even at places that regularly require 3 interviews).