Update on in-person games
September 15th, 2021
UPDATE (please read): Our plan is to return to in-person games (as well as the discord). I am unavailable for the next few weekends, so that will not be this month. I will be reaching out to everyone from today forward as to October (which would be on the 23rd).
Also, please take into consideration that in-person games require us to cover the costs of doing so. If we don't get enough paying players in attendance, the remainder of the cost (mainly the site fee) comes out of my personal pocket, since the site fee is fixed and doesn't scale with the number of paying players.
I'll give you all the actual numbers: The site fee is a fixed $100. The last few times I've run the in-person game, we had less than 5 paying players (at $8 each). So, each of those times, that cost me personally at least $60. That's not something I'm willing to do on an ongoing basis.
What does that mean? It means we have to do at least one of the following:
1. Attract enough paying players on a regular basis (13 paying players at $8 each = $104, which covers the cost)
2. Raise the in-person cost so that fewer players cover the cost
3. Find a venue without a site fee (or with a lower site fee)
4. Stop hosting in-person games
I am being blunt here. If it continues to cost me money out of my own pocket (and look at the numbers above - it has cost me personally about 8x what it costs one of you to play the last few times), that is a situation I won't continue in. I'm not looking to get paid to run these games, but I also won't subsidize, out of my own pocket, a game that costs me personally a non-trivial amount of money. I'm just asking for income to cover costs.
