Re: Turn Prices?

From: "Roy Pollard" <plod@proweb.co.uk>

Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I think either a fiver or three and a half quid is an over-inflated price
for what you normally get in a standard IF/RPG turn. I justify that by
comparing what 3-5 can get me on the High Street. As an example I normally
buy, read and letch over the piccies in mags such as Loaded, FHM or (if I'm
feeling sad that day) SFX for around the three to five pound area - probably
about two hundred pages of which about 50% is of use to me and most of it is
well-written (well, it is for when I'm reading it - usually at work when I
should be working).

There are VERY FEW people willing to pay anything for RPG PBMs because the
cost (say) of ten turns at 35 quid can't be justified when the game is
likely to fold on turn 11. The future for paid-for turns is almost certainly
Computer-mod Wargames etc - the core of the hobby these days comprised of
people who see roleplaying as a skill-less art best left to University
Students and twelve-year olds with their CCG/Top Trump games.

I earn a good living doing a proper job that I hate, and spend a portion of
my spare time balancing that out by doing the hobby (GMing) which I love.
People who attempt to do the same but in inverse invariably fail and annoy
the faeces out of their players.

(Look at that, I didn't say 'shit' even once in this post)

R
DO
www.firstday.co.uk

mwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk> wrote in message
news:38EB1C36.9823EB2E@signal.dera.gov.uk...
> Just out of idle curiosity. What sort of turn fees are people charging
> for hand-moderated role-playing PBMs these days? I know there are some
> free ones (note if anyone knows of a free really good long-lived hand
> moderated role-playing PBM with space going please let me know!) but for
> those that aim to support the GM to some extent what's the going rate?
>
> I guess it's a blurred line as many GMs charge but at infeasibly low
> rates. As a Saturnalia GM I charge �5 a turn and spend a little over an
> hour on a typical reply. I know some of my fellow Sat GMs charge �3.50
> and never spend less than 4 hours on a reply. Are there any that
> successful charge at a living-wage level, say �10 per 2-3 page turn?
>
> Mark
> --
> Saturnalia - Swords & Sorcery PBM, running since 1984!
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/5676/sat.html
>
>

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Turn Prices?
mwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>
Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Turn Prices?
mwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>
Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000