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This is NOT a pay-for-play campaign. Did you even read the thread through? This is also NOT a replacement for a day job. I'm still job hunting while having this service up. It's not as easy to get a job in NYC as you may think. Most of what I find is in a different borough with lots of...

I've decided to try the business out. Other jobs will be pursued as the business is underway. Flexible hours for the GMing service will make it possible to pursue other sources of income. I've collected both positive and negative criticism from each of the 6 forums on which I posted this...

It's only been one day since the interview so I don't know for sure if they're not going to hire me. I think a problem came when I informed them that I wasn't looking for something long-term. The mood of the conversation seemed to change for the worse at that point. Again, it might be a false...

So yeah, I will be testing my original material through the local DnD meetup group. So far I've run a test game for 1 meetup and got very positive reactions from the players for a half-improvised game which featured an alteration to standard encounter design that I cooked up for playtest...

For those of you who are unaware, I'm a New Yorker who was about to start a horribly planned business called "Caravan of Blades" back in early March. The business was a pay-for-play Dungeons and Dragons 4e campaign. I wasn't thinking clearly. My father had recently passed away of a heart attack...

One of the players was generous and bought everyone at the table milkshakes. The sugar rush from my vanilla shake probably helped save the session in no small way. :D

The Adventures of Johnny Tek Episode 1: The Dungeon of Doom So I'd signed up with the NYC Dungeons and Dragons Meetup Group to start testing out tools I'd suggested for use in my article "Professional GM: Methodology and Theory Complete". EDIT: Here's the article thread...

Yes it certainly would. I wonder if Happy Days will ever see a remake. Will it be a film or a reboot series set in modern times? Crystal ball, show me the future...

(Sigh) If things don't work out this week, I'm sorely tempted to try paid gamemastering again. Except this time with an actually sane plan.

While I'm waiting for tomorrow's job interview, I've decided to entertain the forums with an april fool's day prediction. This prediction however has a double edge. It may actually happen. If it does occur, the naysayers are the fools. If it doesn't occur, both the writer and the believers are...

Nope. Read one of the top paragraphs. I was going through some issues with my father having passed away so I threw myself into putting together an idiotic business plan. I'm okay now though. And currently looking for a real job. This article is just about a set of supplementary tools and...

******** The original thread for this ( http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=442760 ) got a little convoluted and went off-track a lot because I posted an incomplete, unrefined article. That's never happening again. Yeesh. I've shortened, rewritten, and reorganized the article to get to the...

Thank you. I just added the link to the original post. The support site board was at: http://ffd20.orgfree.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=11 There's not much left. I took most of it down. You can see what I ended up changing the campaign to at the last moment. Think of it as the mad ravings of a...

***Here is what is happening now*** I ended up sleeping for 14 hours straight. My back doesn't shoot up when I turn or twist anymore. Since I did title this thread with "Aftermath", I'll follow up a bit with what I'm doing in the aftermath of "Caravan of Blades". I'm looking through a book...

I forgot to post up the update on what happened. This is a continuation of the tragic venture described at: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/251813-professional-gm-diary-final-preparations.html Here's what I posted on RPG.net. This is how things went: I regained some of my...

I regained some of my sanity on the subway ride to Café 28. I regained the rest while waiting there for nobody. I'm pulling the plug on Caravan of Blades. My business plan from beginning to the near end was never going to work. My new business plan might have worked but it's too risky and would...

To hell with my back pain!!! I'll still run a session today. A short 2 to 3 hour session for free testing out my new story concept. Tomorrow and Friday will be full sessions at half price. Standard sandbox gaming prep for 6 different sessions a week plus a whole new locale on Sunday was...

I'm in pain right now (my back is killing me) but my suffering has helped me come to an important decision. When I changed it to a 5 hour session per day 6 days of the week, it was so I'd have the earlier half of the day to get a decent stable job. My mother was able to rent out a couple of...

This is for those planning to try or observe the session today: Due to physical exhaustion, I will not be able to perform today. I over-stretched myself the past few days so I need some rest. I'm sorry. Therefore I am cancelling today's session (March 11). I will still be present at Café 28...

They have a no-outside-food-and-drink-policy. Buy something when you get there, even if it's just water and a candy bar. I forgot to mention: I did indeed get permission to hold my games at Café 28 even though normal limit per table is 2 hours. It's apparently fine since I'm not running them...