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Sargon's wife's son
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You know those platforms that are less band happy? Just a thought. You are one lazy, lazy, lazy, black gorilla monkey.
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Can we talk about the insane prices of YouTubers merch? Squidmar did a collab with Archon studios and base price without any website discount is £85 or $110 burger bucks.
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You sound like one hell of a faggot
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I remember when DawnforgedCast first got shit on for being the first major D&D corner youtuber to talk about wanting cash to DM. Other than that the only time cash was mentioned was to talk about the price of Warhammer minis or pooling cash for whatever food people are going to eat during a break on game day.
Honestly that one seems "reasonable" compared to some shit like Miniac's
Yea, he's asking $55 for a 1/12 scale bust of some random bullshit.
Meanwhile Artel W charges under $40 for 1/9 scale busts
Keep in mind what D&D/Wiz Kids charges for dragon models, complete with shitty pre-prime
Creaturecaster's prices also get pretty high, but the models are also generally better(larger and more detailed)
Wasn't that the dude who just posted 2 videos a week basically copying threads he found on enworld, giantitp, and rpg.net for "builds" and then eventually posted some sob story out of the blue about popping pills?
edit: Yeah found him in a thumbnail from someone else's channel a decade ago, that's him alright. One of Gygax's kids was charging to DM for years, there's a fucking directory site for DMs that charge anywhere from $10-$50 per player per session
And I'd be surprised if some of the moderately popular youtube channels in that circle didn't also offer paid DM services for people with big enough wallets at this point. I remember dawnforgedcast being an insufferable faggot, but if that's why people hate the guy there's thousands of people doing that shit now.
Also because I ran across their channel looking up DFC
Holy shit have they fallen off, but still making 2-3 videos a week plus livestreams for an audience smaller than Cooking With Jack? 132k subs, can't break 500 views a video reliably? These guys used to get 50-150k views. What the fuck happened? Week old videos without even any comments? The fucking bots ignore them? I figured being a couple old dudes in the space would never gain them any major popularity but good lord.
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Paradox Mystic
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The thing that originally triggered people about DawnforgedCast is that he was using alt accounts to try and slander other youtube rpg channels so that DawnforgedCast looked more appealing. Matthew Dawkins at the time made a video about it when DFC was caught although Matthew Dawkins was a little vague about it not wanting to name DFC specifically. Also DFC at the time was one of the first people shilling wanting cash to DM, some people thought a small fee might be agreeable, but DFC specifically wanted 250$ a session.
I haven't kept up to date with Nerdarchy or the similar channel with Nerd in the name but I remember that crew of people was big on supporting the idea "Anything other then punching Nazis when you see one is Lawful Evil." and they defended the idea of powergaming over immersion/role-playing which personally ticks me off. Esperbard made a video responding to one of DawnForgedCast's epic 8million or something damage builds and Esperbard's whole point was "Sure hypothetically if a DM lets you minmax a Druid/Barbarian/Monk whatever like this you could...like the math checks out, but roleplay wise it doesn't make sense, how can someone be raging while concentrating on their spells and the magic focused discipline required to trigger some major monk powers?"
The thing that originally triggered people about DawnforgedCast is that he was using alt accounts to try and slander other youtube rpg channels so that DawnforgedCast looked more appealing. Matthew Dawkins at the time made a video about it when DFC was caught although Matthew Dawkins was a little vague about it not wanting to name DFC specifically. Also DFC at the time was one of the first people shilling wanting cash to DM, some people thought a small fee might be agreeable, but DFC specifically wanted 250$ a session.
I haven't kept up to date with Nerdarchy or the similar channel with Nerd in the name but I remember that crew of people was big on supporting the idea "Anything other then punching Nazis when you see one is Lawful Evil." and they defended the idea of powergaming over immersion/role-playing which personally ticks me off. Esperbard made a video responding to one of DawnForgedCast's epic 8million or something damage builds and Esperbard's whole point was "Sure hypothetically if a DM lets you minmax a Druid/Barbarian/Monk whatever like this you could...like the math checks out, but roleplay wise it doesn't make sense, how can someone be raging while concentrating on their spells and the magic focused discipline required to trigger some major monk powers?"
So he was indeed an insufferable retard then.
Most of those videos of his like I said was just theorycrafting shit he ripped off from forums, that no DM was ever going to allow, was some multiclass thing that wouldn't even be usable till lvl 15+(sometimes even 20, leaving your character as basically dead weight for most of a campaign), or required specific shit that a DM could just not allow due to cost/rarity/whatever. It's not even powergaming, it's just retarded, and any DM that isn't a faggot and wants to stop someone min-maxing at the table just hits them in their "min"(it's called min-maxing for a reason, not max-maxing, plus they're also the DM, rocks fall and kill the character of the obnoxious player and everyone else moves on).
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Re: Overpriced plastic
Even before tradewars happened, small niche shit was overprices.
Mini plastic is nearly free, but you have ship it and pay an artist.
An injection mold is about $10,000 and you need to spread that $10,000, plus artist costs, over however many things you plan to sell. then tack on shipping.
Long before this, I knew a friend-of-a-friend who was essentially a "paid DM". Basically he ran a game, lost his job, and was probably going to move back home with his parents when one of the players said "I have an inlaw suite, you can live there rent free in exchange for DMing, we'll take care of groceries too" and I guess he and the players worked out some sort of arrangement to cover his other shit like his car/insurance. I dunno how sustainable it was but he'd been doing it for 3 years when I talked to the people involved. (it was at a big "everyone I've ever made eye contact with is invited to my McMansion in the boonies" new years party)
I guess he ran a game for the homeowner and his wife, and then the normal game twice a week. I might track down that guy again and see what's up with that situation and how it ended (if it ended)
Even before tradewars happened, small niche shit was overprices.
Mini plastic is nearly free, but you have ship it and pay an artist.
An injection mold is about $10,000 and you need to spread that $10,000, plus artist costs, over however many things you plan to sell. then tack on shipping.
I've thought about signing up there, but I wish they'd offer a "Sessions are free if you show up, but its $20 if you no-call-no-show" method. Also I'm just assuming that because they are paying the player base is even more insufferable faggots with even worse snowflake non-binary characters because they were too insufferable for anyone to put up with them without money being involved.
Long before this, I knew a friend-of-a-friend who was essentially a "paid DM". Basically he ran a game, lost his job, and was probably going to move back home with his parents when one of the players said "I have an inlaw suite, you can live there rent free in exchange for DMing, we'll take care of groceries too" and I guess he and the players worked out some sort of arrangement to cover his other shit like his car/insurance. I dunno how sustainable it was but he'd been doing it for 3 years when I talked to the people involved. (it was at a big "everyone I've ever made eye contact with is invited to my McMansion in the boonies" new years party)
I guess he ran a game for the homeowner and his wife, and then the normal game twice a week. I might track down that guy again and see what's up with that situation and how it ended (if it ended)
Even the ones who don't have a whale's room effectively do. They run games at conventions in exhange for trip expenses, etc.
COVID ended, people are realizing 5e is gay, and I'm assuming they bring nothing new to the table.
Certainly. Although some of it is 3d printed these days, still have to pay an artist, still have to deal with the handling part of shipping and handling(people forget that and complain when S&H is $15 and postage only shows $5, so the packaging and handling is generally just rolled into cost), and of course people do this to make a profit.
Even Squidmar with that dragon thing actually gave away 100 of them during their glorified yard sale, so more cost, and of course marketing(giving product to other channels to promote it) is more cost on top of that, while any unsold product has to sit around taking up space till its gone(more cost), and of course logistics to get it from the manufacturer to where it's going to be to actually get shipped from to consumers, more cost.
There's 3 types of groups that I know about that generally use paid DM services regularly.
1. The snowflakes you mentioned, that likely got booted for the 15th time after finding games on the roll20 forums.
2. A group of people who actually want to play, but no one is willing to just nut up and DM for even a one shot.
3. Upper middle class and rich kids. I know a couple people who do paid DM'ng in the area for this category, and can make quite a bit doing it per gig($300-500). Reason being is it's effectively group babysitting.
what the fuck?
Of course. I was referring more to discord calls and shit like that, it's basically just that Cameo thing but more work and potentially more pay.
Probably, and they are in their 50s(at least) at this point. Nothing interesting about a channel trying to produce content about 3-4 times a week, featuring some old guys, who aren't even talking about the latest consoomer shit to throw money at($4,000 gaming tables, dice, etc). But damn, unless there's something going on about tax write offs for gaming shit claimed to be for the channel as a business expense I can't see the point in bothering years later with no audience.
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"Boutique" resin stuff was/is just as bad. For every Hasslefree Minis, there are hundreds of companies/sole traders out there that take the piss.
Cast resin is an absolute piece of piss and requires less of an outlay than 3D printing to get you started. A lot of the gear required you can even make for yourself.
Now you've got 3D printing and its the fucking wild West out there.
Sargon's wife's son
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Look, I do it for one guy. and he pays me 200 a week And yes, his character is a special Snowflake. And yes, he is insufferable. but it's three hours for 200 bucks.
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Like I said it was someone I met a NYE party a friend hosted. I didn't really dig into the details - I was talking D&D with a guy, someone came into the discussion and said "D&D?Oh man I got a story you need to hear. GREG! tell these guys about your situation. this is wild". I asked my friend about it and he said the story was legit.
Also, there will be no follow up: apparently dude I knew died of a heart attack 4 years ago.
So it seems there's been an update to this.
So basically CMON is so fucked they had to sell their golden goose of an IP to Asmodee, with the exception of the Marvel and DC versions of the game because those licenses were a separate deal. That'll keep CMON going for now, and maybe help with finishing some of those 10 kickstarters on the backlog of theirs, but they're basically fucked. There's no way they got enough cash from Asmodee to continue operating as they have for more than a couple of years. I'm sure some retards will continue to try blaming it on tariffs, but it was just stupid business practices. Apparently they also sold off 3 other boardgame IPs back in May, and got themselves de-listed from the hong kong stock exchange back in April.
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We really need to dig into the schizos and faggots who run /tg/ into the ground it utterly shocks me out of all the 4chan hack leaks /tg/ barely had anything leaked out for it. The board apparently has the most active janitors at 10 and were the smartest ones that had the best opsec to protect themselves. My only theory is the reason it has so much janitors is each one actually just resides over a big general and ignores the rest of the board until they cant. Its why sometimes bad threads/meta threads stayed up becasue the jannies are too busy jacking off in their little general.
I have thankfully just stopped using it but in recent times like around 2018 a lot of the board really went to shit badly. I used to use /40kg/ and it honestly redpilled me on thread IDs at this point due to the fact that general has multiple ritual posters to the point of insanity.
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I watched this seething in important rage and sadly Canadians of the farms the only option now is direct rule from London. Your butter knife will be seized, you rights trampled further and your farms destroyed to make way for a high speed rail network which will never leave the planning stages. Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make to save these gamings stores.
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lmfao I have been to that store
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What was it like?
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Its called La Boutique Tabletop, it was nice no trannies, but they mostly focus of stuff like MTG and bolt action instead of warhammer.