Are there professional GMs that players can hire for their gaming nights?  There should be.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;546962Are there professional GMs that players can hire for their gaming nights?  There should be.

Game mastitutes?

I guess.

The person got their RPG degree and is certified to GM RPG X and Y.  They come to the house with the most professional campaign ever.  Players get out their credit cards.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;546962Are there professional GMs that players can hire for their gaming nights?  There should be.

I have seen ads online for this sort of thing. Rpg companies sometimes hire gms to run games at stores or conventions. But I think most players don't like the idea of paying to play. I know I wouldn't want to pay a GM to run a game for me.

If anyone is willing to pay to play i have a bridge to sell them.

Quote from: One Horse Town;546982If anyone is willing to pay to play i have a bridge to sell them.

Isn't GenCon's business model based on this concept?

Quote from: Mistwell;546688True.  I actually preferred 3e to 3.5e in many respects, and I think it really sucked when they put out the new half edition, and the impact it had on the 3rd party market.

Hmmm, you actually may have some good judgement and taste after all...

Quit fucking with my head!!

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;546962Are there professional GMs that players can hire for their gaming nights?  There should be.

There should be people you can pay to wipe your arse for you as well.

There are such people.

Bruce Campbell pussed out on me when I tried it.

Quote from: daniel_ream;547094Bruce Campbell pussed out on me when I tried it.

Umm. Tried what? Running a game for hire or wiping his arse? :rotfl:

Back In The Day, one of the Deadlands books had an intro by Mr. Campbell, in which he claimed that if you did not think that Deadlands was the most awesome game ever, you could front his appearance fee, he would come to your town and run a game for you, and if at the end you still hadn't had a good time he would refund the fee.

Challenge Accepted.

In 2003, flush with cash from our respective dot-com buyouts, a bunch of friends and I called his agent, negotiated a $5,000 appearance fee, and when he showed up later that year in Toronto to do a book signing we presented him with the certified cheque and a copy of the Deadlands book.

After the book signing when everyone else had left, he explained that it was always just meant as a joke, he never thought anyone would take it seriously, he was booked solid for the next three years anyway, very sorry you went to all the trouble, etc. etc.

In retrospect $5,000 seems very low even given that he hadn't had his big break just yet, so it's entirely possible his agent was shining us on knowing full well Bruce would never agree.

Still.

Quote from: daniel_ream;547134Back In The Day, one of the Deadlands books had an intro by Mr. Campbell, in which he claimed that if you did not think that Deadlands was the most awesome game ever, you could front his appearance fee, he would come to your town and run a game for you, and if at the end you still hadn't had a good time he would refund the fee.

Challenge Accepted.

In 2003, flush with cash from our respective dot-com buyouts, a bunch of friends and I called his agent, negotiated a $5,000 appearance fee, and when he showed up later that year in Toronto to do a book signing we presented him with the certified cheque and a copy of the Deadlands book.

After the book signing when everyone else had left, he explained that it was always just meant as a joke, he never thought anyone would take it seriously, he was booked solid for the next three years anyway, very sorry you went to all the trouble, etc. etc.

In retrospect $5,000 seems very low even given that he hadn't had his big break just yet, so it's entirely possible his agent was shining us on knowing full well Bruce would never agree.

Still.

Before his big break?

Deadlands was published in 1996. By that time Bruce had done Army of Darkness and Brisco County Jr.

He totally should have done it. Would have been awesome.

Quote from: Exploderwizard;547138Before his big break? [...] Bruce had done Army of Darkness and Brisco County Jr.

Both of which are at best cult favourites among a very small number of fans, relatively speaking. By "big break", I'm referring to his appearances in Spider-Man and Burn Notice, which made him orders of magnitude more money and exposure than everything he'd done before combined.

QuoteHe totally should have done it. Would have been awesome.

I'm not disagreeing with you there.  We had 5 large on it, don't forget.

I will accept money to GM. I'd even run 4E for enough cash... and of course, signed waivers absolving me of any responsibility for it to be fun (the system should handle that, right?... Right?!)

As for Mr Campbell, I'm rather disappointed.  As it happens I recently stumbled across a story of Steve McQueen, who famously didn't give interviews, who took time off from shooting to give a fan an interview for a high school publication. That's class.

Mr Campbell should have manned up, ran a game (even if he sucked at it) and refused the money on general principle... or taken it, either way...seeing how this was an extremely uncommon event, and it would have earned him more fan cred... not that he needed(s?) it.

Make a promise to fans, its good form to deliver. Just for that I won't work too hard to watch the new seasons of Burn Notice.  Slacktivism for the win!