Roleplaying

This piece follows on from my Free Art post from a couple of days ago. There is a middle road between having to scavenge public domain libraries, edit the art and then use it, and paying more for a single piece of art than you would ever hope to make from your book. This doesn’t … Read more

Today, I have released A Lonely Knave. This is a single sheet, two sides, with everything you need to play condensed into a printer-friendly page. The rules are normally $1.50. I picked that price because Ben Milton’s adventure for Knave, “The Alchemists Repose” is also priced at $1.50. Read below for how to get up … Read more

For someone getting started in writing for RPGs, I don’t think commissioning art is the right place to start. You simply do not have enough data to correctly forecast future sales, for a start. Free art on the other hand is a much more tempting proposition. I want to discuss two options. Public Domain and … Read more

Yesterday’s post proved quite popular so I thought I would carry on… Assuming you are happy to write in your word-processor of choice and sell as PDF, there are probably three main ingredients to an adventure. The text, some kind of map, and at least something artistic to set the tone. You don’t need the … Read more

This morning two things stuck out as interesting. The first was a discord conversation with a person who was being put off from writing for RPGs because they thought that you needed to adhere to style guides, you need to have inDesign to lay stuff out, editors and commission art. Pretty much all the baggage … Read more