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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4291917" data-attributes="member: 19083">I don't see why not, always a shortage of DMs, its a complex, rare skillset etc. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have a pal, who, quite seriously, if he ever wins the Lottery, wants to pay me to be his personal DM <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />personally I get furious at players how don't appreciate a good DM's effort, grr. DMing is damn complex, not physically troubling, unless player's except you to carry stuff to their house (get the damned splat books yerselves, lazy buggers! Metal minis + core books + monster books = heavy! lol).I'm ill so now i won't carry much (hurray for plastic minis!), and DMing itself is stressful as heck unless everything is optimal.People need to appreciate a good DM!look, for all the 4th ed complaints about being like a MMORPG, a point was missed....the DM, and good players are creative actors, directors and producers. I bet, 300 years form now, folk will be playing advanced MMORPGS, which will be living story lines, be it D&D, fantasy, dramas...who knows.Why the heck would you want to watch crap like a soap opera, compared to making your own story and world?D&D was the first true "computer game"! Plot...flow chart...Role play...traps...treasure...300 years form now, a "DM", whatever it maybe called, will be the "#1 hit music entertainer of the week". I'm not being facetious, I'm deadly serious.Soft/hardware will have evolved so far, that your sketches will be made into 3d creations, with touch/smell/taste feedback, your NPCs given autonomous life.Simple evidence of this is the STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl game. it has 20,000 NPCs with basic "life" programming, to hunt, barter etc...300 years from now, NPCs will work off the mind set you build for them, living, killing, gaining xp/treasure, etc.Imagine the Temple of ELemental Evil, where Lareth works away at his goals while you are not there or hires entirely different "muscle"...Hommlet get's it's castle built...the Temples recruit more creatures longer you are away from the game not interfering with them...etcAnother point of this is that game companies cannot supply enough content to feed the needs of so many devoted gamers, it's impossible. See Dungeons and Dragons Online and why it sucked...simply not enough content...only the FANS themselves can ever create enough content. Smart folk in the business, know that.Scary, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And no, I neither liek Star Trek Next Generation, or The Matrix, lol! I'm coming from Syndicate and Syndicate Wars (Computer games, long before The Matrix, Syndicate had a much better and scarier idea for a vast neural net), and a scifi novel called "Starhammer", for this viewpoint, from years ago, and each day that goes by, it gets more likely....So, luv yer DM, or one day, he may demand pay! Muhaha<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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