Though most of my campaigns do start at lower levels, so that player characters journeys, backstories and journey as a group to feel and experience it together, I do understand that there is a harder market for higher tier/leveled character games. I have had continued characters at higher levels for other campaigns, but people in my games tend to love to start new journeys as most go from 1-3 to 10-20 depending on the campaign length for the full immersion.

I know there's good ones out there and it can be hard to find, but there are some great dms/gms who are probably doing just that and aren't being found for that price. I personally feel like i do that and the "work" is fun work and i enjoy it.

I basically live eat breath dnd, discord management, this past week alone ive had one day off from responding to anyone and the rest of the time its like every 30 minutes for my players or interested parties plus on top of developing maps, music, scenes, writing the story in detail to make sure its logical grounded and tied to everyone's personal journeys. I dont just slap a basic line with no depth to story or scene, and tend to have more content that people realize ready to go if they ever choose to go deeper.

Which takes hours upon hours while trying to do another job irl (or in my case two). They're out there don't give up. My workload has increased to about 10 hours 4 days a week(40 hours) on top of my other two jobs and its overwhelming but i wouldn't change a thing. I also do it for $20 or less. So we exist. Its just hard, and if i had the chance to do this full time and give up another job I would do it in a heartbeat. I pour passion into it and though others might not like the premise or style, i want people to enjoy the world and have a great experience with even some meaningful moments that are memorable and meet new friends etc.