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When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

I have no experience in the business of RPGs outside of being a freelance writer on occasion, but it strikes me as unlikely that...

Aside from the glut of material out there, the RPG hobby is badly designed from a business perspective. The basic consumer unit is the...

We have fifty years of outdoors, wide-open experiments to show that very few game companies ever grow very large. There are a wide...

It is. I have a somewhat related conversation going on in discord because we noticed that several folks are using the same image of...

I get what you're saying and (I think) why. However, the garage-band nature of ttrpgs plus the digital age we live in has created a...

You assume that the size of the audience would stay the same if these other games left the market. IMHO, that's fallacious. That aside...

That is part of why I think that from a business POV there are too many RPGs. If there were fewer of them, each would likely have a...

This kind of thing is going to be absolutely crushing to the hobby. This is going to have ripples for years.

If Coca-Cola were the size of rpg companies and suffered a hit like this, I might well donate to help. If Jones Soda Company did, ditto.

At least publishers are better about asking for it than they used to be. Back in the GPA days, the fights about raising the prices past...

I mean, it is that or just roll over and die. As it is, frankly their odds are grim. Yes, nobody would contribute to the Coca-Cola...

How much is an RPG book worth? Right now, I think many of the RPGs I purchase cost anywhere between $50-60, and I think they're a...

Truer words have never been spoken. I've worked for two different RPG publishers and this is one of (many) reasons I have left that life...

I mean, this is an existential threat to their continued existence as a publisher: maybe it isb"unseemly", but they aren't in a position...