>Pay over $2,000 for a Dungeon Mastering class hosted by e-celebs,
>endure the stench of unwashed rubes
>One of the "professors" was on The Adventure Zone
>Get a Loot Crate tier jacket and bookbag for my troubles.
>Realize you could have watched YouTube content at home and learn the game for free.

Is this peak grifting, /v/? Or will the 5e community suffer even greater scams before they finally move on?

https://illomens.com/2025/07/22/dmu/

They’re grifters and I don’t mean the kind that just say something someone disagrees with these are grifters of the proper definition.

>>96164647 (OP)
>D&D fags would rather pay a shitload of money to hear a 2 hour lecture from a minor e-celeb instead of just reading the fucking DMG
This hobby is dying, isn't it?

>>96164654
There is just no world where something like this is acceptable. The people behind this grift are interesting too. Didn't know the co-creator was a former Google exec.

>>96164683
>Didn't know the co-creator was a former Google exec.
What a sad fall from grace. It would be even sadder if bots actually bought this shit.

>>96164647 (OP)
It sucks, but it's also pretty annoying that you're shilling your shitty blog. Buy an ad.

>>96164647 (OP)
For 2k ill let any GM sit at our table and watch how to keep 2 White racist/antisemites, 1 ultra racist la raza type, and happy go lucky fat nerd happy all while scheduling the game for 5 35 to 44 year old fathers

Youll learn yelling to shut up, reminding 30 times no phone, cutting off a guys liquor intake and map design.
We run rifts though cause we classy

>>96165018
your group sounds like literal hell

Is that Vee? She could step on my cock and balls for £2k tbqh lads

>>96164647 (OP)
>Her husband, English musician Martin Kerr, is known for penning songs which breathlessly attack attendees of the now-infamous January 6th “Stop the Steal” protest at the US Capitol building.
what the fuck is this article, OP?
buy an ad

>>96164654
no, that'd be retarded, you're making up scenarios the get mad at based on nothing.
They pay a shitload to get an audit

>>96164647 (OP)
>This means that those paying DMU’s hefty Platinum Registration are still only entitled to one course, filled largely with information that some say could be gleaned for free off sites like YouTube.
OR MAYBE
YOU COULD READ
A FUCKING BOOK

>>96165631
if they read the books they won't need the expert opinion of the rpgpundit, and how will they shill him them?

>>96165685
Social media needs to be deleted.

>>96164683
>pay me to play in your game
So many people are wannabe novelists, maybe this is a real market niche...

>>96164647 (OP)
>/v/?
This sucks but you also suck.

>>96164647 (OP)
>>Realize you could have watched YouTube content at home and learn the game for free.
Or you know, just reading the fucking book. Is /tg/ this low iq?

>>96165324
That's at least less hysterical than calling them "insurrectionists".

>>96164654
The DMG is really bad, though, so it's understandable to look elsewhere.

They should just read The Alexandrian, Sly Flourish, etc, instead of paying money for a class, though. Maybe make a thread on reddit or 4chan or something if they have some particular problem, then use their brain to sift the good advice from the bad.

>>96165959
not beefing or anything, I don't know what you'd call someone breaking into a government building to put their guy in power. Insurrection doesn't requiere it to be a fully fledged realistic plan.

>>96165959
it doesn't matter, it's just right wing virtue signaling. Making a song about something doesn't say anything about D&D, just that the writer is in your camp and you should like him and support his people because he's like you.
And you fully accepted it apparently?

>>96166014
>Maybe make a thread on reddit or 4chan or something if they have some particular problem, then use their brain to sift the good advice from the bad.
this one usually doesn't work very well. most replies you get are low effort/bait from midwits who would rather try to one-up and debate you rather than seriously consider the given topic in good faith. the other resources you mention can help, though.

>>96164654
Compare the amount of people who fall for this shit to the amount of people who just watch Matt Colville videos.

The hobby will be fine.

>>96165273
Based

>>96166076
why the spoony pic?

>>96166101
>why the spoony pic?
to represent searching through tomes of knowledge

>>96164647 (OP)
>The so-called school—titled Dungeon Master University (DMU) by its Canadian organizers
>Canadian
This shit is 100% just a poorly cobbled together bullshit class that will probably teach players nothing but will receive endless funding by the Canadian government to keep it afloat forever regardless of if people actually pay the bullshit tuition fee.

>>96164647 (OP)
>Is this peak grifting, /v/?
Fuck off.

>>96166078
Fatt Colville can run his mouth for 30 minutes and not say a single thing of substance that he won't contradict in the next breath.

>>96164647 (OP)
Just like listen to Robin Laws on his podcast or something.

>>96165018
Based table, sounds like heaven (excepting the scheduling part).

>>96166120
solid episode, I'm rewatching it and it has some references that stayed with me

>>96165272
Weakness.

>>96164647 (OP)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I remember laughing at ads for postal D&D Dungeon Master courses in the 80s in the back of RPG magazines. Looks like another crop of conmen are trying to prey on gullible fuckers all over again.

What do you do when you graduate? Do you get a certificate to frame and hang above your DM's chair? Do you have to wear the jacket in every game you run? Do you get auditors checking up on your games every year to make sure you are still compliant with the lessons taught?

There will always be con artists trying it on and sad gullible fuckers who fall for it.

>>96165018
>We run rifts though
Yeah you lost me sorry.

>>96167156
>Do you have to wear the jacket in every game you run?
I already wear mine every time

>>96166014
>Read the DMG
>Play rules as written
>Do not apply rule zero
>Do not skip "stupid" rules

>>96167247
>>Do not apply rule zero
Yeah when Gary wrote it it was rule two hundred and eleven billion.

>>96164647 (OP)
Not your blog. Fuck off.

>>96164647 (OP)
>Or will the 5e community suffer even greater scams before they finally move on?
I hope so, just because It'd be pretty damn funny.
>>96167156
I hope sites where "DMs" sell themselves will display it in their profile. It'd be hillarious to see these idiots being forced into this scam by the competition.

>>96166076
>most replies you get are low effort/bait from midwits
Maybe if you're palpably retarded and annoying

>>96166014
>dmg bad btw also buy this other book

>>96169157
Illiteracy is a constant scourge on this board, yes.

>>96164647 (OP)
Are you the twitter guy from /v/?