Rent-A-DM

[RFisher]

90% of DM'ing is prep..the rest is making sure the game flows and answering questions.

My milage varies. I'd reverse it. 10% of DMing is prep. 90% is playing the monsters, villians, allies, & the world at large. When I do, the whole point of hiring a professional DM will be for him to play the role of the world. The third (if not the second) adventure can't be written until the first is played, much less the 10th.

 

[Slife]

Now, that makes that thread at... was it rpg.net?... about the "creepiest thing ever" fall short... very short.

Thank someone you still kept your sanity...

I would post up a link to show you how utterly wrong you are... but I've been sigged once for it, and I don't want to get a reputation as "that creepy post guy".

 

[Driddle]

Community Centres will often pay you to DM (in Canada) but the players are ususally awful children.

Honestly, when the community Centre approached me (via my friend Paul, who was their activities director), the 15 dollars an hour was not a prime motivator. ...

Well, yeah! Sheesh.
$15 Canadian is, like, $2 in real American money, right? What a rip-off!

 

[Ashy]

anyone have info about sad story about this Bugaboo character? the one that apparently impaled himself on his dice (from what i gather)? I looked on Google and couldn't dig up much (well nothing actually).

That's because its a C-O-N-spiracy...

 

[Piratecat]

My milage varies. I'd reverse it. 10% of DMing is prep. 90% is playing the monsters, villians, allies, & the world at large.

Agreed. My DMing is about 10% prep.

Bugaboo is a sad testament to the power of pyramid schemes. He had this idea of the DMs Friend Network, where people paid him to become a better DM, and in turn we had other people pay us to learn DMing - and he got a cut. There was a scandal, things got ugly, and the whole scheme collapsed.

I lost a ton in it. I'm still a bit bitter.

He used to get paid to DM, though. I think it paid for his gaming supplies.

 

[EricNoah]

bitter

You said you hardly knew 'er!

Plus, it wasn't so much a "pyramid scheme" as it was a "pointy trapezoid plan."

 

[Piratecat]

I think would got me was that he made the pyramid look like a d4. Dammit, it still seems legit when I remember the image.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

so he just lost on a pyramid scheme that is a metaphor for dice? or did he really die from 3d12 or so worth of damage?

 

[Piratecat]

Four-sided dice are really sharp, and one got him in the eye. You do the math. Apropos way to go, really.

 

[DonTadow]

paid... i get paid now.. Though the currency is usually pizza, pop, cookies, breadsticks and human sacrifices.