The RPG business is a tough one. Some of it's biggest employers need to think about how they treat their people. Some of the designers need to decide if they want to stick around for their fair share of the abuse.
Category: game business
The Best Thing LotFP Did for RPG’s
Like it or not. LotFP changed the role-playing game business forever.
Selling and Commodification are Not the Same Thing
I keep seeing people discourage others from producing game material for sale. Often, the word used is "commodifying." A commodity is a good that is interchangeable with a good of the same type. If you grow the conventional form of field corn and I grow the conventional form of field corn; there isn't any significant …
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It’s Happening.
When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, I asserted that it would cause the demise of many brick and mortar game shops. Locally, we've had two close down that I'm aware of. Armchair Adventure Games, which is south east of Cleveland is going out of business. It was out of the way for me so I …
Gary and Dave Didn’t Change Gaming by Working at Milton Bradley
If you want better games, you will have to make them.
Rough Waters and Rougher Still to Come
Every few days we are getting bad news about different companies that produce products or or services in the table top gaming business. This will continue, indefinitely. Game stores in most states are now shut down. Ostensibly, those closings are temporary but many of them, sorry to say, will be permanent. Here in Ohio, our …
A Quick Update On “D&D is its own hobby.”
I posted this not so long ago and suggested that the bulk of ttrpg players/campaigns are D&D and then a tiny percentage of the hobby is "everything else." The notion being that the vast majority of people who have ever played a ttrpg have only ever played D&D. There is the hobby of playing D&D …
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