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Honestly, these days, it's hard to get any "top of the funnel" attention to anyone's work outside of YouTube or paid marketing. Social media is terrible at bringing organic attention. Blogs can work if you can get people to find them in Google. Roughly 40% of new patrons who find me find me...

One last thing we haven't discussed is that the DMs Guild could disappear along with everyone's products and you could never publish your DMs Guild product anywhere else ever again. It sounds impossible but WOTC kills off old stuff all the time. Their whole previous D&D website is gone. Dragon+...

Personally, I think its too hard to move them over to something else. You have no access to your customers on the DMs Guild. At least on DTRPG, you can email previous customers to let them know about newer products as long as they're also on DTRPG or will be posted there as part of a...

The potential is way higher. We can almost exactly calculate the most a product on the DMs Guild can make but the potential for a non-DMs guild product? $20 million? Who knows what the median is, and its possible the median is higher for the DMs Guild than it is for other platforms. But you're...

Sure. It's not a false dychotomy. Of course you can write other stuff elsewhere. But that work you put on the DM's Guild can only ever be published there – forever.

I don't know about TSR but you certainly signed over rights to WOTC, as you do with almost every other freelance assignment for an RPG publisher. You also get paid for the work directly. You aren't given a percentage of an unknown number of sales with no marketing support. The DMs Guild is...

My father wrote Illumintatus! so I get a free pass on conspiracy theories =)

I don't think it's worth giving up ownership of a product for that.

Most? Citation needed =)

I have no idea. I make the sort of products I would want myself and that I think can help GMs run great games. I still run a lot of 5e (although now I'm running four different 5es!) so I still pay attention to that but I also played a lot of Shadowdark so I had that in mind too. As a RPG...

Interesting timing on the DDOS attack...

I agree. I worry that new creators don’t realize what they’re giving up or how hard it is to make back ones expenses on the Guild.

Or the CC ;)

It was a really great interview. Thank you!

The big issue is that, while Amazon takes 40%, I can sell the book elsewhere. The exclusivity and the fee together make publishing to the DMs Guild nearly untenable for a high quality product. Not being able to crowdfund it alone is a huge detriment. I get it, if you’re using WOtC IP, this is...

It is really the only place you can write a product based on their IP and its possible you might get better visibility on there than any other single platform, but you're essentially selling your product to WOTC. It's not really yours anymore. You can't Kickstart it. You can't make it a free...

You see it one way, someone else in charge sees it another, and you still have a corrupt system. Here's a good example. Tell me how a company gets their product on D&D Beyond.

Fantastic summary! I'm glad you came to the same conclusion I did about Ray saying the team was too small to put out a lot of products -- which Mike Mearls contradicts here in this thread. At least I wasn't wrong in what I heard!

Then you get into a "who watches the watchmen" problem. This happened pretty badly during the whole DM Guild Adept thing. You either had to be a super-well-established creator or a friend of the people in charge in order to be part of the Adept program. It was pretty corrupt.

Aha! Either I got the wrong message from what Ray said or Ray was wrong. Sorry for the misinformation! I'll go edit my post. BTW, I'm listening to your own interview with Stan! right now!