Johnn Four recently quoted something he read in a RPG forum: if you want to make a small fortune with roleplaying games, start with a large one. Pretty funny. But thankfully, it’s not quite true.

Technology sucks!
The technology hurdle is often the most intimidating and frustrating. I just bought a new domain name for my case study and had to wait 72 hours for the new domain to kick in where I live (one of the few downsides of living in Hawaii!) and it usually takes half a day at [...]

I ran Dungeon Mastering under my personal name for 1 year before registering it as a corporation. It worked well. It is free. That’s what I would suggest for most people. Try out your project. Build an audience. Make a dollar or two. And then decide what your structure should be.
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition [...]

Ever since I sold DungeonMastering.com in January 2010, I’ve been thinking about starting a new project. Here it is.

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 [...]