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<blockquote data-quote="ARMR" data-source="post: 7683373" data-attributes="member: 6802722"><p>It's simple, these writers are giving hours and hours of their time on a product they'll barely see any $ out of, while the publisher with time will see their spent money back and then some. Sure it'll take time, but they will break even and make a profit.</p><p></p><p>And things like classes take a lot of hours to complete, and days of proper playtesting before sending to a publisher. So paying half a cent to someone that's giving over 10 hours of their life to work on a good product is worth more than half a cent. Like i said, I understand that many small time publishers cannot afford more than 1 cent a word. But writers are definitely worth $30 for a base class of 3,000 words than just $15.</p><p></p><p>My recommendation would be, if you can't pay at least 1 cent a word, don't ask for writers. Because at the end of the day, these are humans you are working with, and asking to work for you, and none of them are worth half a cent a word. And while it's almost inconceivable to live of making TTRPGs for a living and much less freelance as a TTRPG writer, those $30, maybe even $10 for a monster here or there add up, and help us out.</p><p></p><p>But like someone mention before I believe, you get what you pay for, if you pay half a cent, don't expect the writer to give it his all, they'd be better off making a blog where they offer all their own personal TTRPG designs.</p><p></p><p>And if they are willing to do the work for that miserable pay, then they don't know any better, or they are just like artists that sell their drawings for mere pennies when other artists sell them for more. You are showing the publisher that it's ok to pay close to nothing, when it's not.</p><p></p><p>But that's just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARMR, post: 7683373, member: 6802722"] It's simple, these writers are giving hours and hours of their time on a product they'll barely see any $ out of, while the publisher with time will see their spent money back and then some. Sure it'll take time, but they will break even and make a profit. And things like classes take a lot of hours to complete, and days of proper playtesting before sending to a publisher. So paying half a cent to someone that's giving over 10 hours of their life to work on a good product is worth more than half a cent. Like i said, I understand that many small time publishers cannot afford more than 1 cent a word. But writers are definitely worth $30 for a base class of 3,000 words than just $15. My recommendation would be, if you can't pay at least 1 cent a word, don't ask for writers. Because at the end of the day, these are humans you are working with, and asking to work for you, and none of them are worth half a cent a word. And while it's almost inconceivable to live of making TTRPGs for a living and much less freelance as a TTRPG writer, those $30, maybe even $10 for a monster here or there add up, and help us out. But like someone mention before I believe, you get what you pay for, if you pay half a cent, don't expect the writer to give it his all, they'd be better off making a blog where they offer all their own personal TTRPG designs. And if they are willing to do the work for that miserable pay, then they don't know any better, or they are just like artists that sell their drawings for mere pennies when other artists sell them for more. You are showing the publisher that it's ok to pay close to nothing, when it's not. But that's just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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