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I got to thinking this morning, you know, daily shower thought... last night I saw on a random Reddit post about a guy who's disabled, and has a paycheck for life, but is clueless on what he should do with his life now, what could give him purpose. I got to thinking...
If I didn't have to worry about working to pay for rent or groceries, what would I love to do with my life? I think that many of us have fantasized about this improbability. I thought, yeah, something along with being creative. I'd be a game designer, or write several books, some fictional, others, not quite so fictional (thinking about my role playing game system project). Then it hit me. What I love doing is role playing. That's my creative outlet, among other things, like writing. So I crunched some numbers.
My bills cost about $3,000 a month (with taxes due as well). So, if there's 30 days in each month, and I'm really aggressive about this, that's 30 days a month. I could run two games a day. And the ideal party size is about five people. So that's between $10 and $15 per seat for a four-hour game. Obviously, this is totally not feasible, and would lead toward burn out pretty quickly. So by adjusting the price per seat to maybe $35 a seat, or even going $8 per seat per hour, and running not quite as many games, this is achievable.
I've already got a decent library of games collected to offer variety. And for that fee, there would be food/snacks available, and other perks that I have yet to dream up of, like a customized fully defined character concept workshops, and if I could ever get off my butt and master drawing again, creating decent visual representations of those characters could be offered as well!
But the biggest problem I'm seeing is that most players insist on playing Dungeons & Dragons. I guess I could shovel that down my throat like cherry-flavored cough syrup, but there's so many other better options available. Then the other problem is that of locality. The best games are often played in person. And there's most likely not 250 people who'd be willing to pay for a seat at a table when there's already games that are available for free. But there's always Virtual Table Top gaming, which I do own a software to administer, so that's always a possibility too...
I hate Capitalism. Especially this late-stage crap, because we have to sell our souls and monetize everything we love just to survive. The end result is, our hobbies become more work, which sucks the pleasure right out of them. *sigh*
If I didn't have to worry about working to pay for rent or groceries, what would I love to do with my life? I think that many of us have fantasized about this improbability. I thought, yeah, something along with being creative. I'd be a game designer, or write several books, some fictional, others, not quite so fictional (thinking about my role playing game system project). Then it hit me. What I love doing is role playing. That's my creative outlet, among other things, like writing. So I crunched some numbers.
My bills cost about $3,000 a month (with taxes due as well). So, if there's 30 days in each month, and I'm really aggressive about this, that's 30 days a month. I could run two games a day. And the ideal party size is about five people. So that's between $10 and $15 per seat for a four-hour game. Obviously, this is totally not feasible, and would lead toward burn out pretty quickly. So by adjusting the price per seat to maybe $35 a seat, or even going $8 per seat per hour, and running not quite as many games, this is achievable.
I've already got a decent library of games collected to offer variety. And for that fee, there would be food/snacks available, and other perks that I have yet to dream up of, like a customized fully defined character concept workshops, and if I could ever get off my butt and master drawing again, creating decent visual representations of those characters could be offered as well!
But the biggest problem I'm seeing is that most players insist on playing Dungeons & Dragons. I guess I could shovel that down my throat like cherry-flavored cough syrup, but there's so many other better options available. Then the other problem is that of locality. The best games are often played in person. And there's most likely not 250 people who'd be willing to pay for a seat at a table when there's already games that are available for free. But there's always Virtual Table Top gaming, which I do own a software to administer, so that's always a possibility too...
I hate Capitalism. Especially this late-stage crap, because we have to sell our souls and monetize everything we love just to survive. The end result is, our hobbies become more work, which sucks the pleasure right out of them. *sigh*
