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Message: <blockquote data-quote="davewoodrum" data-source="post: 496758" data-attributes="member: 8322">Yes... exactly. I agree with you entirely! Plus, the individual who wrote that bit that you responded to has to be... I'm sorry... an absolute moron if they are approaching this industry in hopes of getting rich through greed and a demand that their work is only the finest of quality.THIS IS NOT THE COMMODITIES MARKET.(Okay, sorry for the yelling to all)As for my own story I've been working for Dark Quest now for over six months and I make a reasonably good profit in comparison to what I was hoping to receive originally from working with the industry. I still keep a day job but my ventures in this business has helped make life a little more comfortable and I also now have a nice overflowing bookshelf of game books... my hobby is pretty much free now plus I get a nice bit of coin to go with it. Yet, despite my comfortable state from my efforts I have only recently (as in the last thirty minutes) sent off my fourth proposal to Morrus in hopes of making an appearance in Player's Journal. Two of which I've already sent in the submissions to be looked at.... one I hand drew concept art just to help out the artists who may be assigned to the project... All For $30 An Article!Why? Am I desperate.... NO. I do it because I really love this industry and this hobby. People think that D&D, D20, and all of that will be around forever but if you honestly look under the surface, it's alot more interest driven than it is economic driven. If it was purely economics, our hobby would have probably died out altogether in the mid to late 80's.  I love to contribute my own work because not only do I create in hopes that my offerings will help keep the hobby going but also because many of the different things that I have designed are not yet in the game but I would like to see them in the game. Also, some of the stuff that I contribute towards publications like Player's Journal are ideas that are really neat and I would like to see in print but do not happen to go with enough other material for my publisher to consider using in one of our books. Also, my publisher encourages me to submit because when my own name gets positive exposure, the products that I work on in house gain that much more credibility. Sometimes contributing to a magazine, now matter how "little" they offer is like being paid for advertising your own talents.</blockquote>

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