by Jeff Tidball | May 17, 2013 | Business, Publishing, The Work
On Facebook recently, my friend Miranda Horner — an accomplished game editor who works primarily on Dungeons & Dragons for Wizards of the Coast — posted this: I want my chosen industry, the tabletop gaming industry, to be so successful overall that it can afford...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 9, 2011 | Design, Promotion, Publishing, RPGs, Sci Fi, Story, Writing
I hesitated to post this here because this isn’t a Gameplaywright project, but you might be interested in seeing it all the same. I’ve launched my first Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion and publication of a story-game adventure called...
by Jeff Tidball | Sep 22, 2010 | Fantasy, Publishing, RPGs
Philip Athans has put together a lengthy article contrasting the development of the intellectual property that comprises the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms settings. Extensive discussion with Tracy Hickman and Ed Greenwood provide a great deal of high-quality...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 28, 2010 | Business, Design, Publishing
Craig Mod has written a profoundly beautiful and informative essay, “Kickstartup,” about how—and why—he used Kickstarter to republish his book Art Space Tokyo after it had fallen out of print. If you read nothing else this week, Craig’s essay...
