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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3291029" data-attributes="member: 34865">QFTI can name on one hand - and have fingers left over - the people who've gotten rich in the RPG business.  I mean bona-fide leisurely cash stockpiles RICH.  And they all did it due to upper echelon business issues, not through sales.As Rob Kuntz so saliently put it : "You, too, can make hundreds of dollars a year in the exciting world of role-playing game authorship..."I mean...when Gary started out, he was repairing shoes to keep G/K (Gygax/Kaye) afloat out of his house.  I believe Don Kaye was selling insurance to hold up his end.Close to seventy thousand words into my RPG career - oh, wait, I also wrote some for Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer Online, and that paid* - and I've yet to see a paycheck...  That's not a complaint: that's a reality, and it's one I'm keenly aware of.  The paychecks are coming, it is just a matter of being patient.*Someday I'll tell the story of how I got that gig, and just how much difference a tiny amount of money can make in one's life...</blockquote>