D&D 5E What a small industry 5e publishing really is, and WOTC are thieves.

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

FYI, I am pretty sure the OP is some how related to NuTSR. They seem to have a similar agenda at least in all of their posts.

 

[Morrus]

How do you get to a million dollars working in the RPG industry?

Start with two million dollars...

Well, or have a great Kickstarter.

 

[hunter1828]

Well, or have a great Kickstarter.

True dat.

 

[Nikosandros]

I think you meant to write that WotC are Rogues. TSR were Thieves.

WotC is sneaky... TSR would downright backstab you!

 

[Nikosandros]

Well, or have a great Kickstarter.

I heard there was a fellow with a news site who did just that. Have you heard anything about it?

 

[MGibster]

I remember Stephen King wrote that expecting to get rich as an author was a sucker's game. There's been a lot of discussion over the last few years ago how little many of the contributors to our favorite games make. We're talking about an industry were big names like Mike Pondsmith or John Wick might take a break to from TTRPGs to work in another area for better pay.

 

[Parmandur]

I never realized how small this industry is until now. I assumed that huge industry names like "Ed Greenwood" who has written thousands of novels for TSR/Wotc would sell 100,000 copies easy. But its only just today that his Forgotten Realms supplement, Border Kingdoms, after a year, had sold 2,500 copies.

Given that most are sold at $15 and WIZARDS OF THE COAST TAKES 50%. That leaves $18,750 minus art and split with other authors.
He probably made $5,000 minus taxes.

Not surprising he still has to work at a library.

Incredibly sad.

"Has to work at a decent paying job with a pension while enjoying free healthcare."

Greenwood is probably just happy to share his world with people, he has said as much.

 

[Shardstone]

RPGs really don't pay that well except for those who have long time customer bases or a lot of money they can already sink into the project. Most D&D fans specifically don't buy third party content. You have to remember, D&D is touted by WotC a few years ago to have 10+ million players, and they're now a billion dollar company whose books churn a lot of money on Amazon. Even with some Kickstarters crossing a million, that's still not a even a sliver of the amount of money any first party book makes. Its a few orders of magnitude different.

So, anyone who makes anything for 5E (myself included) is essentially licking the sweat off the footprints WotC leaves behind for the rest of us. Ed making 5000 off that book alone last year is a lot better then a looooooooooooot of other RPG developers get. For every En World or Kobold Press, there's 30 Shardstone Assembly's. 'Tis the nature of the game.

 

[FangTheDelectable]

FYI, I am pretty sure the OP is some how related to NuTSR. They seem to have a similar agenda at least in all of their posts.

Nobody cares about "Justin Lasagna" and he ugly team of rip off artists. Happy now you dumb little unicorn?

The only reason anyone in the entire world has heard of NuTSR and the idiots that run it, is because of opposite dopes of the spectrum that promote them every single day, day after day trying to "laugh" at them, but they just come across as sad.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

…, but they just come across as sad.

I guess you would know