Roleplaying

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

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