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<blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 4775084" data-attributes="member: 4892">This is where I think you haven't done your market research. &quot;Entertainment is entertainment&quot; is like saying &quot;pizza is pizza.&quot; Maybe in some areas of the country where a person can choose either Pizza Hut or Dominoes that might be true. But a city like Chicago (where we love our pizza) makes a huge distinction between types of pizza.Similarly, NYC is a center of entertainment and different forms of it will rate differently. That's why it costs so much more to see a Broadway play than it does to see a movie. You have basically priced your services at the cost of two movie tickets (assuming a full group) for a 4-5 hour session. So you are saying your form of entertainment is roughly equal to that of a movie. Really? Can you match the sights and sounds of a professionally produced movie?And, as much as I love D&amp;D, one has to admit that the game of D&amp;D carries both a social stigma and in some people's eyes controversy. Companies are unlikely to hire you for team-building because of the controversies, real or imagined, that D&amp;D carries. They can't risk placing a person with strong beliefs into something like that who might sue them for hostile workplace issues. And how many non-gamers do you expect to market &quot;that game where you pretend to be an elf in your mom's basement&quot; to? Again I think your services are only going to appeal to existing gamers or those already interested into getting into gaming that haven't yet. And your competition is all the DMs that do the job for free. You need to be infinitely better thatn the average DM to compete with free.I think your only shot at making this work would be to form an after-school program or summer camp that caters to parents of young teens. That way you don't need child-care credentials, it would just be a club activity to keep teens out of trouble in their parents eyes. Of course for this you would need a stable location to pull off. I don't know if NYC even has park districts, but you might want to see if you can run a youth RPG club through them and earn your money that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vyvyan Basterd, post: 4775084, member: 4892"] This is where I think you haven't done your market research. "Entertainment is entertainment" is like saying "pizza is pizza." Maybe in some areas of the country where a person can choose either Pizza Hut or Dominoes that [I]might[/I] be true. But a city like Chicago (where we love our pizza) makes a huge distinction between types of pizza. Similarly, NYC is a center of entertainment and different forms of it will rate differently. That's why it costs so much more to see a Broadway play than it does to see a movie. You have basically priced your services at the cost of two movie tickets (assuming a full group) for a 4-5 hour session. So you are saying your form of entertainment is roughly equal to that of a movie. Really? Can you match the sights and sounds of a professionally produced movie? And, as much as I love D&D, one has to admit that the game of D&D carries both a social stigma and in some people's eyes controversy. Companies are unlikely to hire you for team-building because of the controversies, real or imagined, that D&D carries. They can't risk placing a person with strong beliefs into something like that who might sue them for hostile workplace issues. And how many non-gamers do you expect to market "that game where you pretend to be an elf in your mom's basement" to? Again I think your services are only going to appeal to existing gamers or those already interested into getting into gaming that haven't yet. And your competition is all the DMs that do the job for free. You need to be infinitely better thatn the average DM to compete with free. I think your only shot at making this work would be to form an after-school program or summer camp that caters to parents of young teens. That way you don't need child-care credentials, it would just be a club activity to keep teens out of trouble in their parents eyes. Of course for this you would need a stable location to pull off. I don't know if NYC even has park districts, but you might want to see if you can run a youth RPG club through them and earn your money that way. [/QUOTE]

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