Roleplaying

So my first Kickstarter is live. It went live on Tuesday because various blog posts suggested that Tuesday was the optimal day for launching a campaign. My goal is set to $99, the adventure actually cost about sub-$40 to write if you exclude my time to write it, lay it out, and all the myriad … Read more

First of all, CSV stands for comma-separated values and is a way of saving data that can be opened in almost any spreadsheet. They are plain text with commas in between the different values. If you open on in a text editor it will probably be as ugly as hell, but in a spreadsheet, it … Read more

There is always a danger that the efforts to sell more copies of existing stuff you have made eats up so much of your time that you don’t have enough time or energy to create new stuff. That creating stuff was why we get into this game in the first place. If you can find … Read more

In writing for RPGs is surprisingly easy to go a very long way without spending a single cent/penny. You can write and layout some very sophisticated documents just using LibreOffice and export them to PDF. You could use Scribus to set up a document for Print on Demand. If you print through Xpress, Lulu, or … Read more

Once upon a time, CCPs [Community Content Programmes] were an excellent way to get into writing for RPGs. They can still be, if you are fully aware of the implications. If you write for a CCP you will not be able to contact your customers to tell them about new releases as a publisher can. … Read more