>I'm a hidden thread

And?

>>97486206
Okay but real shit, I joined a game with some people that hang in the wider ttrpg community- like going to gaming cafes.. I dont want to say they act weird but definitely differently

They buy. So much shit. One book in ten they'd run. Boxes of dice. Bluetooth fucking dice.

Is this a thing or did I find a weird group?

>>97486206
I've unironically been thinking of getting into this, I'd be selling my soul for sure and having to play with the bottom of the barrel, worst of the worst...

But I'm a good DM and it's just easy money right there.

>>97486726
>Bluetooth fucking dice.
How does that even work? What's the usecase?

>>97486842
>But I'm a good DM
Post dm stats.

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>>97486929
Maybe he's talking about those light up dice that shows pretty colors when you roll le natural 20?

>>97486842
>Anon lowering himself to prostitution.
Hate to see it.

>>97486842
>Turn hobby into job
>Still hate job, now hate hobby

>>97486957
Naw. You roll them and they upload the result to your vtt

>>97486726
No that's just your average normalfag. Being a geek is their personality and expressing that means spending money to signal their tribe to others.
>Something something funkopop geekchic
They post here.

>>97486842
What if you end up enjoying it?

>>97486726
You met a lifestyle hobbyist. They treat their hobby as a lifestyle beyond just engaging with it, but engaging with it on the meta level, and accessorising it. It's the same as people who give their pets personalised feeding bowls, or go out of their way to secure RGB lights for their graphics cards.
>The Activity: Playing the game
>The Hobby: Studying the gaming material for entertainment
>The Metahobby: Discussing the concept of playing games (We are here)
>The Lifestyle: Buying a personalised feeding bowl with RGB lights for your copy of Traveller: The New Era which you have not played

>>97486206
I'm in a public discord for a tabletop game franchise that used to be pretty big and a lot of the bots that sneak over the wall lately have been advertising D&D games. They always emphasize that it's free, but it's different links every time. I wonder if it's trying to get people to give training data to an AI so they can make a subscription service "play D&D with our AI DM!" thing or just a gateway to a game where free becomes "free before fees and optional purchases". Whatever the case, there are literal bots trying to get people to play D&D online now.

>>97486842
>it's just easy money right there
I'm curious how much money you think you'd make and how many hours per week you think you'd put into it.

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>>97486206
>be paid gm
>can only run 5e because that's what nogame paypigs want
I'ld rather run other games for free when i can.

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>>97486206
>Be me
>Pays DM to run 5E weekly
>Plays a female Tiefling Warlock
>Have fun every week
>This upsets /tg/ for some reason

Good thing I play games otherwise I'd also seethe at others having fun.

>>97487008
Yeah, this is the exact reason i haven't done it yet. Despite a number of my old players suggesting this

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>>97488271
Oh god, same.
>Enjoy DMing
>Saving money for University
>"I should try being a paid DM, I get home at 7pm, that gives me 4 hours to run a game and then i can get to bed on time. $15 per player x5 players = better hourly money than my current wage."
>Put out an advert on an RPG Discord
>"Hi, i'm looking to run paid games for people. I have DM'd regularly for 10 years and fluently know Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars Saga, Star Trek Deceipher, Fantasy Flight 40k (Dark Heresy, Deathwatch and Black Crusade), Free League's Aliens, End of the World and Genesys.
>First Message: "Do you do D&D?"
>Me: "I'm not that great at it, i'm more into Sci-Fi than fantasy. I can do it, but i think your party would do a LOT better with one of the suggested ones"
>Next deluge of messages are people asking for various D&D requests, including that shitty fucking 5e Star Wars.
>MFW reading the 14th fucking "Can you run [INSERT ANIME] using 5e?"

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>>97489806
I used to run my LGS (Got killed by a combination of COVID, Brexit and my business partner dying of a heart attack) the amount of times i had the conversations of people looking at the books:
>Me: "What are you looking for?"
>Person: "I've been watching this anime, One Piece, recently and now i'm looking to run an RPG based off of it."
>Me: "Oh, cool. What system you looking to use?"
>Them: "Oh, 5e seems like the way to do it. I mean, i'll need to add a bunch of stuff and edit some other stuff, but i'm sure i can make it work!"
>Me: "You know, there's a bunch of other RPG's you can do. In fact, we have Blue Rose which is more about the friends you make along the way than the punching people in the face with rubber arms. Or maybe BESM a system custom designed around doing cool Anime stuff. Maybe even 7 Sea's, an RPG about being a pirate and going on swashbuckling seaside adventures.
>Them: "Hmmmm, maybe... I'll think about it" *Pretends to look through those books, before bringing a 5e Players Handbook to the desk*
>MFW
I fucking hate people sometimes.

>>97489905
>business partner died of a heart attack
damn, and in a nation with health care too

>>97489905
I'm not saying 5e is a good system to run One Piece on, but none of the other 3 are any better.

>>97490118
NHS is free in the sense that bread was free in the late 80s USSR

>>97488271
How fucking antisocial do you have to be to not be able to get a game of 5e?

>>97490159
NHS is free in the sense that it gives a free alternative, so my BUPA Private Health Care that i never have to worry about "Out of Area Doctors" bullshit, knows that they can't absolutely fuck me the most over imaginable. I pay maybe £500 a year in taxes to the NHS, then i pay BUPA another £900.

Out of curiosity, i asked United to quote me based on my many health problems. They quoted me $17,000 a year, more than 10x as much.

Yeah, i'll keep the NHS over the actual Hypocratic Nightmare America calls a "Health System" where the most standard procedure is grabbing people by the ankles and shaking them upside down to make all their money fall out.

>>97486726
>One book in ten they'd run
Sometimes you find a book for a system or setting that looks really fun. But you've already got too many games going. Or your group doesn't jive with that genre. Or you just don't have the free time.
But unbuying a book because you never could play is disheartening, and you can still get enjoyment out of re-reading it. So you keep it.

>>97490118
Yeah, doesn't matter what country you live in, a catastrophic heart attack in your sleep tends to kill you.

>>97490610
>But unbuying a book because you never could play is disheartening
Using the Time Machine for stuff like that should feel a bit bad yes.

>>97490169
The issue is that there are 2 distinct hobbies occupying the same nice: 5e and other ttrpg. The ones that are only interested in 5e are, obviously, a fuckload more than guys interested in ttrpgs as a whole. Given then the latter are not about a single game/genre it makes also leagues more difficult to have them converging to a single paid GM, hence you have 5e everywhere you throw a rock at.

>>97489707
No you don't
>>97486726
You live in America?

He was paid DM
She was a free player
Too bad the two
Never met

>>97486842
>But I'm a good DM
pfft

>>97489707
Based