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ProfessorDetective reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
Same region as Evil Hat. Ish. Revenue speaking, of course. We have a lot of revenue streams—Kickstarter, our store, DTRPG, distribution...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
For an interesting side-note, my FLGS makes ~$500k in revenue pretty consistently. It's just me and 5 part-time employees. (I should...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
That’s pretty standard for mid and low tier publishers. There are exceptions, of course, but it’s certainly our model, and the model of...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to djotaku's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
For anyone else interested in this stuff - definitely check out Wolgang Baur's blog posts on Kobold Press - I think he calls it "state...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to SlyFlourish's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
This topic is fascinating and something I think about a lot. I appreciate the insight folks are offering here so I'll add some of my...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Dalekdad's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I guess I overestimated Evil Hat. Between how big its Fate and Blades lines seemed to be on message boards, I assumed they were one of...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Mongoose_Matt's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
Something else to consider when putting companies in tiers... First, as Morrus said, revenue is not profit (revenue is vanity, profit...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to MongooseBella's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I will say I do think some of their conclusions are pretty odd (at least to me). For ex. we make less than Paizo's 50m figure (whether...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to evilhat's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I would not take that bet, not with all of them at least. Chaosium (and indirectly Onyx Path) had a good 20-ish year lead on us in terms...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
That’s not legal here. You can use that as your public facing mailing address (and we do—see the contact page linked at the bottom of...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Morrus's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I can’t speak for others, but our registered address is our accountant’s office, which is a service they provide. You won’t find my home...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to MongooseBella's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I wish! But no, it's not accurate. For UK companies, you can look them up on Companies House: Companies House - GOV.UK which will give...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to MGibster's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
I certainly didn't mean to be archly about it at all. I'm sympathetic to your plight because I find myself in the same boat. While...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Dyson Logos's post in the thread The 5 'Tiers' of TTRPG Publishing with Like.
Mainly the timeline. I expected that to start in 20 years, not imminently.