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<blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 8008848" data-attributes="member: 87576">The only &quot;solution&quot; is for tabletop RPGs to sell way more than they do. The &quot;industry&quot; is way too small financially to support the number of those who want to make game design/RPG writing into their career.And, quite evidently, that is not a solution but it is the reality of the situation - and also why friends shouldn't let friends aim for a career in tabletop game design (unless they are already independently wealthy). As countless parents have told their kids over many generations, if you are aiming at a career in a creative field, make sure you have a fallback career choice. (Weird Al Yankovic, for example, graduated as an architect on the advice of his father to have a fallback career option.)Who knows? If Hasbro/WotC doesn't screw the pooch on the next movie, maybe tabletop RPGs will boom again as they did when even TSR was able to make money? (On that note, I would love to see Pelgrane's Night's Black Agents made into a TV series. There is other IP in the industry beyond D&amp;D and its brands.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scrivener of Doom, post: 8008848, member: 87576"] The only "solution" is for tabletop RPGs to sell way more than they do. The "industry" is way too small financially to support the number of those who want to make game design/RPG writing into their career. And, quite evidently, that is not a solution but it is the reality of the situation - and also why friends shouldn't let friends aim for a career in tabletop game design (unless they are already independently wealthy). As countless parents have told their kids over many generations, if you are aiming at a career in a creative field, make sure you have a fallback career choice. (Weird Al Yankovic, for example, graduated as an architect on the advice of his father to have a fallback career option.) Who knows? If Hasbro/WotC doesn't screw the pooch on the next movie, maybe tabletop RPGs will boom again as they did when even TSR was able to make money? (On that note, I would love to see Pelgrane's Night's Black Agents made into a TV series. There is other IP in the industry beyond D&D and its brands.) [/QUOTE]

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