View From the Bushes

Several people have made comments about the idea of having the players pay the DM. I imagine that somewhere this utopia exists (Ha! get it!), but in my experience every time I want to run a campaign there are plenty of people who express initial interest but when it comes time to do any work like generating characters, mapping, keeping track of treasure or putting together a back story, it's like pulling teeth.

In principle, the concept of having someone pay you to DM is not that far fetched. I have certainly been involved in gaming sessions which were easily more enjoyable than any movie and people pay for those, so why wouldn't they pay to have a really good DM? Speaking of movies, it's encouraging (from the standpoint of tracking the decline of western civilization) to see that the Cat in the Hat movie with Mike Myers is getting terrible reviews. There are many things which are illegal which shouldn't be (marijuana) and many things which are not illegal which should be (selling movie rights to Dr. Seuss books to talentless hacks).

In any case, I'll be putting out a scalable NPC tomorrow (assuming that there are no unforeseen technical glitches). I think the Xenogenic system is going to work really well for generating NPC's -- much better than some of the random generation systems that are currently out there. As always, when you're talking about the first iteration of something, there are bound to be some issues, so I welcome feedback, complaints, criticism and baseless insults.

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Ross