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If he publishes it without paying, that's one thing. But just claiming ownership of all submissions is universal for all publishers running contests. otherwise, they'd contstantly be sued when they independently created something a contestant decided was similar to something submitted in a...

Actually, no. Starting rate in Dungeon and Dragon in the late 1990s was 5 or 6 cents/word.

If the upper end rates (7-10 cents/word) shock you, then yes the answer is the market doesn't support higher rates than that. The vast majority of freelance game writers cannot make a full-time living at that rate. I was a full-time freelancer for many years, and managed to buy a house, put my...

I strongly suspect you are off with Paizo. That's way higher than any rate I am aware of, as a developer for the company. But they do pay on word counts in stats blocks.

A thought on Freelance RPG writing rates. I have been a full-time freelance writer, who made 100% of my income (and the entire households income) purely through writing. It can be done. It's hard, and it sucks. That experience, over the course of several years, left me with strong opinions about...