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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Hound" data-source="post: 3060487" data-attributes="member: 30195">I voted "other."  I am assuming that I would be a very talented professional GM with a strong enough reputation to convince people to pay to be entertained at my table, and that I would be  charging the players directly.  I'd charge per person and therefore the per hour take depends on the number of people playing -  I would be providing an evening of quality entertainment to a small group of people.  As near as I can figure, going to see a movie comes out to a cost of about $3 per hour per person, not counting the overpriced popcorn and soda.  That is about the only form of out of house entertainment that I regularly have experience with so I'll just go with that, though I suppose the theater and opera are more expensive, as are ridiculously overpriced rock conerts.  An average group of 5 people would wind up collectively paying me $15 per hour.  A large-ish group of eight would pay $24/hour.  Unfortunately, if you consider the prep time for each game, expecially if it is done very professionally, the hourly rate that I would see for the amount of work that I actually put in might be less than half of that.  As a result, I would no doubt promptly start seeking some other, more lucrative line of work.Which brings us to the question of how much players would be willing to pay for a professional GM, and how many people would be willing to pay anything.  Unfortunately, the answer to those questions are probably close to $0 and 0 people.  I've even heard of people wanting to charge for GM services in a few contexts, but as far as I know, none of it has ever gotten off the ground.</blockquote>

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