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<blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 8007254" data-attributes="member: 6804070"><p>The blog is not for distributing and selling your product, it is for building a base of followers. You need to build followers in some way. Whether that is through a forums (such as ENWorld) or somewhere else. A blog is a very common and useful way to show your creativity, provide a central portal for your fans to engage with you and your products and for your fans to point other potential fans/customers to. "Hey, check out this guy, he does some really cool backstories"</p><p></p><p>Patreon can be a good place to sell your stuff. But you are restricted to OGL stuff. If that's relevant. DriveThruRPG is another good place, but again you are restricted to the OGL. If you want to reference the WotC 'stuff', then you have to sell through the DMsGuild as it's the only place commonly available for re-use of the WotC IP. But, as you noticed, it has restrictions.</p><p></p><p>And personally, rather than PCs, I would suggest you look at creating NPCs. I'm much more willing to buy a product of 10 or 100 related NPCs than I am a bunch of PCs.</p><p></p><p>As for mechanics vs backstory. I too agree that most people like to do their own characters, but when they struggle they struggle with backstory. And the reason is simple; mechanics have simple and defined rules for determining them, and players can easily test those mechanics for DPR, spell list, etc. Backstories have no discrete steps to create, they are only limited by imagination and any evaluation of good/bad is almost purely subjective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LordEntrails, post: 8007254, member: 6804070"] The blog is not for distributing and selling your product, it is for building a base of followers. You need to build followers in some way. Whether that is through a forums (such as ENWorld) or somewhere else. A blog is a very common and useful way to show your creativity, provide a central portal for your fans to engage with you and your products and for your fans to point other potential fans/customers to. "Hey, check out this guy, he does some really cool backstories" Patreon can be a good place to sell your stuff. But you are restricted to OGL stuff. If that's relevant. DriveThruRPG is another good place, but again you are restricted to the OGL. If you want to reference the WotC 'stuff', then you have to sell through the DMsGuild as it's the only place commonly available for re-use of the WotC IP. But, as you noticed, it has restrictions. And personally, rather than PCs, I would suggest you look at creating NPCs. I'm much more willing to buy a product of 10 or 100 related NPCs than I am a bunch of PCs. As for mechanics vs backstory. I too agree that most people like to do their own characters, but when they struggle they struggle with backstory. And the reason is simple; mechanics have simple and defined rules for determining them, and players can easily test those mechanics for DPR, spell list, etc. Backstories have no discrete steps to create, they are only limited by imagination and any evaluation of good/bad is almost purely subjective. [/QUOTE]
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