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12-05-2002, 05:15 PM
Post originally by ben monroe at 2002-12-05 16:15:53
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Is the pay and you know it. I mean spending all your freetime writing gaming product for $0.025 a word and then getting all that great praise on rpg.net!

Woo hoo!

Seriously though... the best part really is the vastly cool people you get to meet. Not going to drop names here, but some of the most creative, talented and all around _nice_ people I've met have come as a direct result of being part of this niche market for so long...
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12-05-2002, 11:21 PM
Post originally by Rallan at 2002-12-05 22:21:43
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You managed to get twenty-five cents a... oh wait, two and a half cents a word sounds bit more... no wait, two AND A HALF? How'd you swing that totally plush extra half-cent a word that nobody else gets?



Rallan
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12-06-2002, 03:20 AM
Post originally by Sergio Mascarenhas at 2002-12-06 02:20:27
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Imagine for a momment that most people interested in stamp collecting decided they should write their own book about stamp collecting. Or people that collect coins. Or people that play football (with house rules, of course). Or people that watch movies.
How many of these people would be payed for their hard done writings?

I never hunderstood why RPG fans think our hobby should be different.

Sergio
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12-06-2002, 05:20 AM
Post originally by Jimmy at 2002-12-06 04:20:08
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Because stamp collectors don't design their own stamps.
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12-06-2002, 08:12 AM
Post originally by Timothy Moerke at 2002-12-06 07:12:05
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...all the chicks?

Looks like I was wrong about that one.

Timothy
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12-06-2002, 09:01 AM
Post originally by ben monroe at 2002-12-06 08:01:29
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I had to do some things that I can't bring myself to mention in a public forum...

Oh the shame!
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12-06-2002, 09:02 AM
Post originally by ben monroe at 2002-12-06 08:02:23
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Well, duh.
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12-06-2002, 11:55 AM
Post originally by Sergio Mascarenhas at 2002-12-06 10:55:39
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neither do a lot of role players design their own settings. They just copy it from somewhere.
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12-06-2002, 02:09 PM
Post originally by ben monroe at 2002-12-06 13:09:40
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Sergio,

The point is really that industry pay scales are low... _really_ low. And the reason that so much stuff _does_ get written is because we all love the hobby.

However, it does get frustrating at times to spend hours and hours and months and months writing a book that you pour your heart and soul into, and then at the end you get enough money to buy a new TV set or something.

The point being, nobody gets into writing for the gaming hobby to get rich. We do it for fun, and to hopefully make a few extra bucks on the side.

And the chicks.
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12-08-2002, 09:51 PM
Post originally by Sergio Mascarenhas at 2002-12-08 20:51:29
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<< The point being, nobody gets into writing for the gaming hobby to get rich. We do it for fun, and to hopefully make a few extra bucks on the side. >>

True. But it happens the same in most activities where all one has to do is to write. Look at novel writters, poets, song writers, opinion writters, etc. For each one that does some bucks there are hundreds or thousands that do it just for the fun.

Of course, it seems that people make more money with fiction than with RPGs. But I doubt that this is true because there are so many more people attempting to be fiction writers than RPG writers.

Sergio
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12-10-2002, 06:03 AM
Post originally by access.denied at 2002-12-10 05:03:17
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you simply misheard.
It was "...all the geeks."