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

[Morrus]

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.

Getting yourself threadbanned from your own thread is quite the epic fail. Getting yourself permabanned from the whole site? I think we can agree it’s about time.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

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.

Can we just close this goofnuts user down and not entertain these kinds of discussion? This stuff is so transparent it's embarrassing. Just ban the user, close the thread and move on.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Can we just close this goofnuts user down and not entertain these kinds of discussion? This stuff is so transparent it's embarrassing. Just ban the user, close the thread and move on.

Never mind...

 

[Gammadoodler]

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.

Uhhhh..Spoilers for the new John Wick movie.

 

[CleverNickName]

Came here to say this. I can't say this is true everywhere, but the few that I have known are happy with the job.

Completely agree. I don't understand the OP's library hate. I worked in a library for 4 years and I loved it...good hours, good pay, clean and quiet work conditions, respectful colleagues and customers. Seriously, it was one of the best jobs I ever had.

The closest I ever had to a "bad day at work" there was when I was doing book inventory and some clown came in and started knocking books off of shelves and screaming about God and witchcraft. The religious zealot was amusing, but she created about four hours of extra work for me before security could drag her off.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

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

No idea. All I have been hearing about is the fantasy author who just had a $40,000,000+ kickstarter for some "surprise" novels and swag.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Are you a writer?

Do you work through a publisher?

That publisher is eating your lunch.

Are you a writer?

Do you self publish?

Amazon is eating your lunch.

There is no path for writers where we ever get to eat our own lunch.

 

[Retreater]

I'm in my 26th year of library work - so I obviously enjoy it. The money I make freelancing RPG content goes back into my hobby (minis, 3D printer, etc.) Even if I could make a substantial amount writing RPG content, I wouldn't trade my job.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Though I love my current job, I still look back fondly at my time as a librarian.

But, wow, I never had anything like that happen! That is wild. I think the worst was when I had to call another library to apologize that the person that had borrowed a book from them through interlibrary loan had lost it (whether it was lost or "lost," who can say?).

I think the only reason I no longer work in a library is that one of the downsides of living in a city with one of the top MLIS programs is that there's a ton of competition for the jobs that open up. Which, yeah, people tend to stay with them forever, so that further cuts down on the options.

Completely agree. I don't understand the OP's library hate. I worked in a library for 4 years and I loved it...good hours, good pay, clean and quiet work conditions, respectful colleagues and customers. Seriously, it was one of the best jobs I ever had.

The closest I ever had to a "bad day at work" there was when I was doing book inventory and some clown came in and started knocking books off of shelves and screaming about God and witchcraft. The religious zealot was amusing, but she created about four hours of extra work for me before security could drag her off.

I'm in my 26th year of library work - so I obviously enjoy it. The money I make freelancing RPG content goes back into my hobby (minis, 3D printer, etc.) Even if I could make a substantial amount writing RPG content, I wouldn't trade my job.

 

[billd91]

Though I love my current job, I still look back fondly at my time as a librarian.

But, wow, I never had anything like that happen! That is wild. I think the worst was when I had to call another library to apologize that the person that had borrowed a book from them through interlibrary loan had lost it (whether it was lost or "lost," who can say?).

Wow. That's really mild. I no longer work in a library, but when I was in grad school and worked in a major university library's main administrative offices, I learned a few things that were eyebrow raising. For example, they added a security entrance years before because someone was once attacked in the library with an axe. There was also an individual known as "the Mad <expletive>er". Whoever this was would occasionally poop in a book and put it back on the shelves. Then there was the morning one of the cataloguers, who frequently came in early and was a chain-smoking Vietnam War vet, was found unresponsive near his desk. He survived but was no longer allowed to come in when nobody else was around... so that someone could respond to similar emergencies.
University libraries sure do collect the stories...