Roleplaying

This is interesting because game jams are/were definitely an Itch.io thing and not a DTRPG thing. In addition, DTRPG normally keeps their smaller sales and promotions a secret until they start. Their regular sitewide sales are well known, but most people don’t know the dates of them. This one has a clearly publicized start date … Read more

One of the most recurring topics on the DTRPG discord is how to do marketing if you don’t want to do marketing. Creative types are notoriously bad at marketing and often equate it to trying to hard sell. Another version is the impostor syndrome, where creatives don’t want to sing the praises of what they … Read more

Jay from FeralGamersInc sent out this email yesterday. Hi I am doing a sale on my more popular titles that will run until the 22nd of May. At the moment my wife’s parents are both in a critical state with advanced cancer, her Father has cancer of the mouth and throat and her Mother has … Read more

The main tool for creating cut ups, for me, is a Word macro. Create a blank document, then go to View->Macros->Record Macro. Name the macro CutUp Type a space, and then delete it. Go back to View->Macros and stop recording. Go to View->Macros, select CutUp and then click Edit. Highlight the macro below, and replace … Read more

It is very rare for me, but this week feels like work, not being paid to play. My working week is normally reading a game, seeing what is really cool about it, and then creating characters, running through adventures, with lots of note-taking, and then writing up those notes into what I needed to solo … Read more