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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1155824" data-attributes="member: 7177">Unless, of course, the author of the PDF is good and (a) uses this to "break into the business", or (b) is motivated by something other than money. Actually, (b) is probably very common in the RPG industry as a whole...If you were to to pursue a career in writing RPG supplements,  writing PDFs is probably a good way to start. Of course, there are others:- Publish and print them yourself: Only do this if you have lots of spare money.- Writing articles for RPG magazines, such as Pyramid or Dragon.- Contribute to group efforts. Some GURPS and Shadowrun books were written that way, with each writer contributing a chapter or sub-chapter. I think some monster collections were also done this way...I've done the last two - I've written for Pyramid magazine, and I've contributed to several GURPS books (such as GURPS Monsters and Toxic Memes). Through this I've built contacts to some professionals and publishers, and I think if I were to send in a proposal for a full book, it wouldn't be dismissed out of hand.Still, there's a big difference between writing a few articles or submitting a few contributions to a book (3000+ words in the case of Toxic Memes) and writing an entire book (90,000+ words). And I am trying to do the latter right now (see my sig).Of course, I could try and submit my work to the various d20 publishers. But I don't know yet if I am up to the challenge - if I can deliver a high-quality book within a deadline (and I simply don't know if I will have the time, period - I am also trying to get a job as a research assistant right now...).So I've decided to publish my setting as a PDF - this way, the only deadline I have will be the one I set myself, and I won't loose too much money, either. If I manage to pull this through, if the response of the gaming public is positive, and if I still have any energy for writing left... well, then I might approach an actual publisher. But I'm not ready for that yet.A question: Do you actually want to work as an RPG writer (whether part-time or full-time)? If not, then this argument is academic, anyway...</blockquote>

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