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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 2405261" data-attributes="member: 944">Recruiting and Keeping can be a challlenge but its really an issue of economics -- Writing game stuff pays so poorly that food service clerks make as good or better  a living -- as an example one of the BEST Non WOTC Employers is SJGames -- you can get 3 cents a word on E23 and I assume a bit more for print. WOTC is one of the very few exceptions -- and i won't discuss them but even your guys are mostly freelancers Now SJ Games (and many industry) rates come out to $2400 for a project, lets say you get 5 cents for Print that would be $4000 for an 80k word project that can take a minimum of a month (usually 2) if you are highly skilled  -- Very few people can produce 12+ of these a year--In fact to make a decent living  in California (not good mind but acceptable) as a full time game writer  I would need a project a month with certitude of getting paid in full every time or a job as a staff writer for 40K -- can many outside of WOTC afford that?Until they can and there  are a decent number of jobs like that  that gaming will remain Mostly Hobby Only -- Its My Baby Right to PDF ManAlso IMO many of the best writers are very time limited -- they tend to have work/or school for some at 50+ hours a week (official 40hr work week, lunch and commute) + personal life and maybe a campaign too (for another 5+) this leaves precious little time to write -- call it 10 hours a week if they cut back on internet and TV and Video games and work like a TrooperYou can't expect a stream of a professional content from those circumstancesInstead (because of the low cost of entry) you get what we have now -- Lots of amature stuff of various gradesFortunately technology makes editing and production better and gamers in general are pretty creative. Most of the material is quite decent -- maybe not professional grade but certainly worth while and fun</blockquote>

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