Dungeon Mastery to get outsourced to India


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If being DM requires considerable familiarity with the rules, and considerable intelligence and Creativity, how long will it be before you can call an Indian Dungeon Master online to DM your Games for a fee?


Not saying that i want it to be outsourced but DMing for cash would be the best job ever.

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The smitter wrote:
Not saying that i want it to be outsourced but DMing for cash would be the best job ever.

Indian DMs will do it cheaper...

Liberty's Edge

Being from the Southwest, I intend to hire undocumented laborers from Meh-hee-koh to handle all my GMing duties. For a case of beer and about $100, I can even replace all my players.

I wonder what it would cost to replace my minis with illegal immigrants armed with boffers and dressed as orcs?


Do we want illegal immigrants armed with anything?


Winnegan's fake. wrote:

Do we want illegal immigrants armed with anything?

Armed with common sense would be good.


yellowdingo wrote:
The smitter wrote:
Not saying that i want it to be outsourced but DMing for cash would be the best job ever.
Indian DMs will do it cheaper...

I pretty cheap, right now I pay my players with pizza and mount dew. see if India can bet that.

The Exchange

Pizza is what? 5 dollars? OK An Indian Dungeon Master could go online for 2.50 a game period of 2 hours (internet cost), 2 dollars in wage ($1/hour)...Thats 50 cents less than the Pizza alone and he/she doesnt even need to wase petrol getting there and back. An Indian Lime squeezed in a Jug of water with a crushed sugarcane stick can be had for fifty cents. Considerably less than what the can of mountain dew costs you.

Still cheaper to outsource.


yellowdingo wrote:

Pizza is what? 5 dollars? OK An Indian Dungeon Master could go online for 2.50 a game period of 2 hours (internet cost), 2 dollars in wage ($1/hour)...Thats 50 cents less than the Pizza alone and he/she doesnt even need to wase petrol getting there and back. An Indian Lime squeezed in a Jug of water with a crushed sugarcane stick can be had for fifty cents. Considerably less than what the can of mountain dew costs you.

Still cheaper to outsource.

However, you have to deal with the combination of difficulties/disappointments of having to navigate the accent (unless you're like me and have no trouble with them) and dealing with the most flow-chart-y of railroaded adventures, which is fine if that's the standard of gaming you're used to. It can be advantageous if you're trying to engineer new crunch as they do it on the cheap, but creativity is not always a strong point. Then again, if you get lucky and have a DM that's well-versed in scandals, you could end up with a suitably 'interesting' Vudra campaign, among other things.

Of course, I work in IT, so my perspective may be a bit biased.


Velcro Zipper wrote:
Being from the Southwest, I intend to hire undocumented laborers from Meh-hee-koh to handle all my GMing duties.

Drives a pick-up truck to that corner down the street.

Why didn't I think of this sooner!?

Liberty's Edge

Velcro Zipper wrote:
I wonder what it would cost to replace my minis with illegal immigrants armed with boffers and dressed as orcs?

Not as much as you might think, believe me.

...er...

I've said too much.


Yeah, but who wants all that Tejano music between battles?

Liberty's Edge

Uh, me!

I've already got goblin costumes prepared for the mariachi band.


They prefer 'Native Americans'.


They are taking over the country with their burritos and piñatas. They must be stopped!

Maybe if we build a large wall…


My iq's 268.


Kobold Cleaver wrote:
They prefer 'Native Americans'.

No we don't.

Amerinds, however, works rather well.

I'd offer up outsourcing DM action, but I'm part feather, rather than part dot.

Or, as someone once put it with gestures and the most mirthful of onomatopoeia, 'woowoo, not dingdong'.

Does that work like proverbial 'n-word privileges?'

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Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
My iq's 268.

Excellent. Now I will have a smarter Leprecaun Skull to hit with wooden sticks...as I dance around the Chocolate Tree doing the Rain Dance.

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CourtFool wrote:

They are taking over the country with their burritos and piñatas. They must be stopped!

Maybe if we build a large wall…

They outflank the ends and take your PCs by surprise while distracting you with Kobolds fired by Catapult.


yellowdingo wrote:

If being DM requires considerable familiarity with the rules, and considerable intelligence and Creativity, how long will it be before you can call an Indian Dungeon Master online to DM your Games for a fee?

Well...with the whole WotC vtt...not long...as that would be the next logical step.


yellowdingo wrote:
CourtFool wrote:

They are taking over the country with their burritos and piñatas. They must be stopped!

Maybe if we build a large wall…

They outflank the ends and take your PCs by surprise while distracting you with Kobolds fired by Catapult.

Or the terror within pushes corporate welfare down our throats and the fat cats fiddle while the ship sinks.

Either way, it seems a poor idea. I suggest we stop pointing at the nearest not-us and take responsibility for our own problems.

Liberty's Edge

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
My iq's 268.

I wouldn't say that around Aberzombie...


Velcro Zipper wrote:

Being from the Southwest, I intend to hire undocumented laborers from Meh-hee-koh to handle all my GMing duties. For a case of beer and about $100, I can even replace all my players.

I wonder what it would cost to replace my minis with illegal immigrants armed with boffers and dressed as orcs?

LOL! If I were an illegal immigrant, I'd rather pretend to be an orc all day than pick oranges or clean hotel rooms.


Leomund's Hairy Chest wrote:
Velcro Zipper wrote:

Being from the Southwest, I intend to hire undocumented laborers from Meh-hee-koh to handle all my GMing duties. For a case of beer and about $100, I can even replace all my players.

I wonder what it would cost to replace my minis with illegal immigrants armed with boffers and dressed as orcs?

LOL! If I were an illegal immigrant, I'd rather pretend to be an orc all day than pick oranges or clean hotel rooms.

Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?


Leomund's Hairy Chest wrote:
LOL! If I were an illegal immigrant, I'd rather pretend to be an orc all day than pick oranges or clean hotel rooms.

Stealing jobs from 'Maricans! Get 'em boys!


CourtFool wrote:
Leomund's Hairy Chest wrote:
LOL! If I were an illegal immigrant, I'd rather pretend to be an orc all day than pick oranges or clean hotel rooms.
Stealing jobs from 'Maricans! Get 'em boys!

They took our jobs!


yellowdingo wrote:

Pizza is what? 5 dollars? OK An Indian Dungeon Master could go online for 2.50 a game period of 2 hours (internet cost), 2 dollars in wage ($1/hour)...Thats 50 cents less than the Pizza alone and he/she doesnt even need to wase petrol getting there and back. An Indian Lime squeezed in a Jug of water with a crushed sugarcane stick can be had for fifty cents. Considerably less than what the can of mountain dew costs you.

Still cheaper to outsource.

I'd just like to say I can get a can of Dew, Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, etc for 50 cents at my job....

SO THERE PTHHHHHHH!!!!


I homebrew in more was than one.

I will run a Quasi-Proto-Vudra game, and it will have Tantra. And quests where monstrous PCs, in an attempt to bypass their dharma and kharma, attempted to jump places on the wheel by the power of Precious Bodily Fluids™ and esoteric rites, deceptions, and sensual misleadings.

ALL WHILE THERE IS INDIAN MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND AND MAYBE HOMEMADE SAMOSAS AND RAJMA DAL.

They can try to take my job, but I have already taken their food.

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