Brian Owens, the manager at Dungeon Mastering, organized a free webcast event. He interviews me about breaking into the RPG industry.
Visit this article on DungeonMastering.com for all the details: Playing RPG’s for a living?

To help others, you have to help yourself first
The Gamer Lifestyle program is all about helping others craft a better life for themselves. We hope to help many gamers and entrepreneurs to create a reliable revenue stream from their hobby. Someone pointed out that it’s difficult for anyone to know how seriously they can take [...]

Always an interesting read from a Gamer Lifestyle perspective is Matt Sprange’s annual state of the union address about Mongoose and the RPG industry:
State of the Mongoose Address

This week Hannah Lipsky of Chaotic Shiny released her first Gamer Lifestyle product. Congratulations Hannah. It was a pleasure reading Martial Flavor. I’ll be using at least two clans for my upcoming Pathfinder RPG campaign. Well done.
A few hours ago I received the following question by email:
Hannah’s selling Martial Flavour for $20. It’s a good [...]

To help others, you have to help yourself first
The Gamer Lifestyle program is all about helping others craft a better life for themselves. We hope to help many gamers and entrepreneurs to create a reliable revenue stream from their hobby. Someone pointed out that it’s difficult for anyone to know how seriously they can take [...]

This is a response I wrote to a Dungeon Mastering reader who was wondering how to get noticed in the RPG industry.
How do you compete with free?

Here’s the thing about working in the gaming and creative writing fields: people do it for free.  With a little effort, WOTC could get free content for almost all [...]

I’m looking at two game world products on RPGNow. Both talk about nations, history, races, locations, NPCs, flora and fauna, etc. Both are titled “World of XYZ” where XYZ is the name of the setting. There are many other game worlds available at RPGNow. These are just two.
Now put yourself in the designers’ shoes. They [...]

First of all, let me say that I am scared shitless.
I am scared of seeing all my hardwork fail and leave me with nothing or not much. I think that’s human nature. I am scared of the unknown. I am terrified of trying new strategies when I have a system in place that’s already working.
But [...]

Many up and coming publishers, designers, and writers aim to release a print product immediately. This is a mistake. They should release a PDF, ebook, or digital version first. Here’s why.
Very low retail penetration vs. the world online
Unless you already have distributor relationships and retailers know your products sell well, you won’t break into retail. [...]

To help others, you have to help yourself first
The Gamer Lifestyle program is all about helping others craft a better life for themselves. We hope to help many gamers and entrepreneurs to create a reliable revenue stream from their hobby. Someone pointed out that it’s difficult for anyone to know how seriously they can take [...]