Guides

Straight answers on what a professional DM costs, whether paying is worth it, what a session zero is, and how to become a paid Dungeon Master.

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Written by the people running the games, mostly because we got tired of answering the same questions in Discord one at a time.

How much does a professional Dungeon Master cost?

Real published rates across the market, why the range is so wide, and what you are actually paying for.

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Is paying for a Dungeon Master worth it?

Including the four situations where it is clearly not, and how to reduce the risk when it is.

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What is a session zero?

What happens in one, why campaigns die without one, and how to run a good one.

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How to become a professional Dungeon Master

What it pays, why finding players is the real bottleneck, and the path that actually works.

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Playing D&D on Foundry VTT

What Foundry gives a table that voice chat does not, and what you need to join a game on it.

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Crit Fails Academy

The full course library and DM community, if you would rather learn to run games than read about it.

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More coming

We add to this as questions come up in the Discord. If there is something you want answered, ask in the server and it will probably end up here.

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Tell us what you want out of a game and we will point you at the DM who runs it. No charge to talk, and no charge until you have sat a session zero.

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