I can believe it. With people becoming more and more isolated, it has become difficult for some to naturally create a group to play with, let alone find someone with imagination to DM. I imagine these paid DMs treat it like commissioned storytelling.
It's been a thing online for a long time. The concept is that you're paying for someone who'll run "quality" sessions, know the rules, basically ensure you can just drop in and have fun with friends or other strangers without going to any lengths yourself aside from paying 'em.
These days you get a lot of insufferable people also looking for the "Critical Role" experience too.
Which is funny, because DMing "Critical Role" doesn't seem that hard to do. It's the logistics of organizing a group of 4-6 people in the modern world and have them stay on script that throws things into haywire.
I can believe it. With people becoming more and more isolated, it has become difficult for some to naturally create a group to play with, let alone find someone with imagination to DM. I imagine these paid DMs treat it like commissioned storytelling.
It's been a thing online for a long time. The concept is that you're paying for someone who'll run "quality" sessions, know the rules, basically ensure you can just drop in and have fun with friends or other strangers without going to any lengths yourself aside from paying 'em.
These days you get a lot of insufferable people also looking for the "Critical Role" experience too.
Which is funny, because DMing "Critical Role" doesn't seem that hard to do. It's the logistics of organizing a group of 4-6 people in the modern world and have them stay on script that throws things into haywire.