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How to be the Manager that Freelance TTRPG Writers Love Working With
There’s a lot of advice out there for how to be a ttrpg freelancer that companies love to work with. Hell, maybe I’ll write a post about that later. But there is less guidance for how to hold up the other end of that collaboration. As the industry grows, I’m seeing a lot of new
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Skill Challenges: Who Inherits the 4e Crown?
It’s the year 2025, and everybody is obsessed with this ttrpg called Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. Can’t get enough of it. There’s no shortage of games that cite 4e as inspiration for their own mechanics, and many of them came out this year! In this blog post, I want to talk about one 4e
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For Gregg Postmortem
Or: How it Took Five Years to Make Five Minutes of Gameplay This is a blog post about how I made For Gregg, which you can play for free on itch right now! It takes 5 minutes. It’s probably a shorter read than this blog post! This post heavily discusses the game’s subject matter, so
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How I Got into the TTRPG Freelance Industry
A lot of people have been asking me lately how they can get their first job as a freelancer in TTRPGs, or tabletop roleplaying games. I think there are a lot of posts that do this really well (that I’ll link later), but I keep getting asked so I’m going to write my own. As
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FFF25 Day 4 – Rules
Marona Shrike returned from her first job with the severed right hand of a billionaire. Unceremoniously she threw it on the bounty table of the assassin’s guild. Flakes of dried blood cracked off the wrist and fell on the weathered wood. Asteros leaned forward in his seat to inspect the thing. His gloved hands gingerly
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FFF25 Day 3 – Truth
“Well?” he asked. “What do you think?” Martineus’s eyes darted back to the page, scanning for something – anything – to like about the script in his hands. “I like…the effort,” Martineus ventured, watching the reaction of his partner Racles Topper with every slow syllable. “It’s well-organized.” Topper raised an eyebrow. “Has a nice flow.”