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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5403840" data-attributes="member: 63">The saying goes: How do you make a small fortune in the RPG industry? Start with a large fortune.LucasArts or whoever hands out the license doesn't just want a good game. They want a good product, and that requires a company with the connections to get the thing published, marketed, and distributed. So as an individual? You'd basically need a giant amount of money, and before you could even have a chance of getting their attention you'd need to use most of that money to produce a different product of your own. And if you actually manage to make a big enough splash that people recognize your name, then LucasArts (or whoever) might think you're worth trusting with their property. But more likely they'd go with a larger company with a longer track record.So if you want to release a Star Wars RPG, either spend several years working your way into the consciousness of gamers and game publishers by writing cool products for established companies, and then maybe a decade more rising to the top tier among writers for a single company, with the (vain) hope that some day they'll acquire the license so you'll get a chance to put your mark on the Star Wars universe;or do it the easy way and write your own take on heroic sci-fi/fantasy with laser swords and space battles, possibly even creating something fresh and interesting. And then be prepared for most people to ignore your work, because it ain't Star Wars.Or, y'know, just give up on game design, go to business school, play the stock market, become stinking rich, hang out drinking with George Lucas and tell him how awesome he is, and then one day get him nice and drunk and convince him to let you write the RPG for his universe. Really, that's probably the easiest solution. Plus you're rich, which is something very few RPG authors are.</blockquote>

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