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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7715054" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>Clicking through on the Patreon link turned up a figure of $942 for six sessions of five hours each per month. Which on the surface looks like $30 per hour of play. Sessions are run using Fantasy Grounds and the adventures were created by him so it's safe to say he is very familiar with them. From my own DMing I would spend a few hours a week preparing my campaign, which I guess you have to be charging to the sessions whether or not the work was done well in advance. Plus there are some other costs such as self-promotion and accountancy. So I would guess he is earning somewhere around $20 per hour all told. Maybe less.</p><p></p><p>As to the question, is $500 exorbitant for DMing a session. I feel it is genuinely irrelevant if most of the world live on a fraction of that, because most of the world is not paid fairly for their time full stop. Assuming a 5-hour session, we are discussing $100 per hour. That is the sort of fee one might pay a Lawyer to deal with a relatively straightforward task. And an IT consultant or project manager might be charging anywhere from $40 per hour to $200 per hour. An artist commissioned to paint a piece that took 30 hours could earn anything from $10 per hour to $10,000!</p><p></p><p>I want to be controversial and argue that $100 per hour is what anyone really expert in their field should be getting. I know many do not get this, and that is an injustice, but it still feels correct to me. Do we value a DM's expertise so little compared with other creative professionals?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7715054, member: 71699"] Clicking through on the Patreon link turned up a figure of $942 for six sessions of five hours each per month. Which on the surface looks like $30 per hour of play. Sessions are run using Fantasy Grounds and the adventures were created by him so it's safe to say he is very familiar with them. From my own DMing I would spend a few hours a week preparing my campaign, which I guess you have to be charging to the sessions whether or not the work was done well in advance. Plus there are some other costs such as self-promotion and accountancy. So I would guess he is earning somewhere around $20 per hour all told. Maybe less. As to the question, is $500 exorbitant for DMing a session. I feel it is genuinely irrelevant if most of the world live on a fraction of that, because most of the world is not paid fairly for their time full stop. Assuming a 5-hour session, we are discussing $100 per hour. That is the sort of fee one might pay a Lawyer to deal with a relatively straightforward task. And an IT consultant or project manager might be charging anywhere from $40 per hour to $200 per hour. An artist commissioned to paint a piece that took 30 hours could earn anything from $10 per hour to $10,000! I want to be controversial and argue that $100 per hour is what anyone really expert in their field should be getting. I know many do not get this, and that is an injustice, but it still feels correct to me. Do we value a DM's expertise so little compared with other creative professionals? [/QUOTE]
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