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<blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4775990" data-attributes="member: 44797">Actually, that part is true.&nbsp; There is a guy here on En World who has posted a lot of stuff about how he stumbled upon being a professional GM, and how he was hired by a company to host D&amp;D games as &quot;team building exercises.&quot;He has a blog about it; it was pretty funny.&nbsp; I was mostly amused by how he put together his game with a Palm Pilot because he thought it would impress them, but when he arrived at the house it was a mansion and he realized they wouldn't even think a Palm Pilot was novel at all.I'm afraid that unique situation has probably been the impetus for a lot of what we see here.Whoosh.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />OK, CC, I'm just going to say this flat-out.I know it's not difficult for the LFR guys to power level, and I know you weren't implying it.&nbsp; That wasn't my point.&nbsp; I wasn't actually asking the question I asked.&nbsp; I was trying, too subtly I guess, to hint that these guys are currently power leveling for free and I was further implying that therefore there is no market.So when you pop up and say &quot;now you can power level for cheap!&quot;&nbsp; I suspect all the LFR guys shrug and say, &quot;I'll stick with power leveling for free!&quot;&nbsp; When you say, &quot;My service makes it very easy&quot; I suspect all the LFR guys will say, &quot;No, actually, because you're charging and don't have a home to host us in, your service is more difficult.&quot;I mean really, your market is power gamers?&nbsp; Wouldn't they all have DMs or be DMs themselves?Sometimes I just want to laugh at all this, but today it just makes me depressed.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Some LFR power gamers hire this guy over &amp; over again so my cynicism can die a little each time.&nbsp; Please?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aboyd, post: 4775990, member: 44797"] Actually, that part is true. There is a guy here on En World who has posted a lot of stuff about how he stumbled upon being a professional GM, and how he was hired by a company to host D&D games as "team building exercises." He has a blog about it; it was pretty funny. I was mostly amused by how he put together his game with a Palm Pilot because he thought it would impress them, but when he arrived at the house it was a mansion and he realized they wouldn't even think a Palm Pilot was novel at all. I'm afraid that unique situation has probably been the impetus for a lot of what we see here. Whoosh. :( OK, CC, I'm just going to say this flat-out. I know it's not difficult for the LFR guys to power level, and I know you weren't implying it. That wasn't my point. I wasn't [i]actually[/i] asking the question I asked. I was trying, too subtly I guess, to hint that these guys are currently power leveling [i]for free[/i] and I was further implying that therefore [i]there is no market[/i]. So when you pop up and say "now you can power level for cheap!" I suspect all the LFR guys shrug and say, "I'll stick with power leveling for free!" When you say, "My service makes it very easy" I suspect all the LFR guys will say, "No, actually, because you're charging and don't have a home to host us in, your service is [i]more difficult."[/i] I mean really, your market is power gamers? Wouldn't they all have DMs or be DMs themselves? Sometimes I just want to laugh at all this, but today it just makes me depressed. :( Some LFR power gamers hire this guy over & over again so my cynicism can die a little each time. Please? [/QUOTE]

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