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FG grabs the game system when the license check handshake is made.

Fantasy Grounds also publishes a similar report but they give actual numbers out.

The Foundry “excuse” of private networks should apply to Fantasy Grounds, but they can report the number of sessions. Only FG publishes actual numbers that can be tracked over time. Roll20 uses percentages and total number of accounts and changes how the percentages are calculated. Foundry does...

I am not really sure why people are arguing about one person’s belief about data integrity.

Morrus already tried a Twitter poll on what (I answered it). I can look at drivethru and dmsguild and get a quick sense of what creators think is the right price to sell their product. I guess it would not be a terrible task to compile price per page and color vs. B&W and see what it comes out...

If it takes UBI to support RPG development (which I hate to discuss more as it is very political), then the industry is in a very sorry state. The core audience being the GM with players only buying the core rules (and a splat book or two) makes it harder as most newer developers write...

Outside the USA there typically is medical and other coverage as well. And the 25% to 1/3 of your take home pay is strained in places like London and NYC and SF and Los Angeles (and Singapore and Tokyo and I assume other major metropolitan centers).

It ties to professionals, not wages in total for all jobs. Often there are claims of RPG design being a profession which is why I brought that in. Lawyers, Doctors, Accountants, Engineers, Bankers. Most have an apprentice system for when school is done at quite low pay and then it gets much...

Hasbro pays well at the executive level and qualified finance staff is about the same in most companies in limited geographies because we know salaries and have a well established recruiting industry that grabs underpaid people and moves them to better opportunities. So I am expecting that the...

To be fair, I said x10. Which I personally blew away but it helps to have worked in an industry that requires work experience for the certification (Chartered Accountant in my case) so they can exploit the young workers.

What income should a rpg designer make? As an income where your partner (wife/husband) is also working, $75K is enough in the USA in all but the most outrageously expensive places. As a single income, if that includes medical, you can sort of scrape by in a one bedroom apartment in a suburb...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ In the USA, they have treaded water, not shrank. You can make this better or worse depending on what your starting year is. I never pay attention to minimum wages or similar entry...

It is a matter of where you draw the line at what a “city” is. Even so, there are only a few areas where housing is especially expensive (I live in the greater San Francisco area which is one of them). Outside those areas, prices are way more reasonable. Obviously, a few toy and game company...

Hasbro is a bad example in that they have many products. 5e core books are also a bad example because they were created in house when the brand was not doing well at all and staff had been seriously cut. So the traditional best selling book (players handbook) was done when the brand was at a low...

Would RPG companies pay more to non-owners if they raised prices? Or would the owners keep the extra profit? Could prices actually be raised? WoTC double the price of their last AL modules. I responded by not buying any since I just run them (for free) in the local store and over $150 for the...

Audit, Law, Investment banks. MD (resident pay is peanuts). Engineering tends to start higher but not such a steep slope. Teachers usually start out super low for the first couple of years as well. The last 10 years have seen a partial correction of this with starting salaries going up. The...

That salary was my starting salary at KPMG right after graduating university. Converted from $18K at the rate that year. In Montreal, which is a major Canadian city but not Toronto which tends to have the highest salaries. In my group, I know of none that kept working that did not at least hit...

The examples of people making pretty good money from writing / game design are usually the ones that own their own company and present great products or the senior management at some of the larger publishers. Not really that much different than fiction writers and actors. A few make a lot. The...

It seems hard but I passed 10x in about 10 years. If you asked me at my first non, looking at current wages it seemed hard. I am certainly an over achiever (my salary is actually public so can be seen), but my position let’s me see salaries in general and I have worked in a variety of companies...

I work in a profession (accounting / finance) and the starting salaries today are $70 to $0K where (in USD, I started in Canada) I started at below $13K. A few years of experience gets you over $100K now. I live in Silicon Valley now which has a pretty inflated numbers, but have facilities in...