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It is very hard to be able to do everything well and at some point you are going to need to hire someone to do some work for you.

Choosing art for your #RPG is a more important task that you might think and one that requires with certain skill no one teaches you about. This is one to watch out for!

Designing a game comes with plenty of perils, one of them is to get so close to the rules that we don’t realise if they truly work or not. Or not making sure the game is as flexible as it can and should be.

We are moved by hype nowadays. If one can create enough hype about a game, that game is going to do very, very well indeed. It is something we have learned from music, books, cinema, sport… hype works. But when should you start generating it?   This Podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can:...

Some of the aspects of #rpg #publishing hard to remember to think about is page count and word count. They can make a massive difference in the budget and the future of the game. There is another video with extra content for our patrons!  This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https:...

Magonomia is the first RPG by Shewstone Publishing funding and funded using Game On Tabletop at the time of publishing this podcast.

In #RPG #publishing, the tone of the writing of your game is going to help convey the sort of game it is. But how do you go about it?

How big should your book be? Because sometimes seeing a 600 pages #RPG can be super daunting for a lot of people, and that includes me! Do you need to #publish something that huge?

This is an interview with renowned author Peter Wacks about his recent book The Caller of Lightning. Might not be an interview about #RPG but it is about a book that should become a #TTRPG   This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine You can find out mor...

Publishing their RPG is a dream for a lot of people. In this show, I am going to cover some of the issues to think about to bring your game to the public.

Nicole Lindroos has been in gaming more than 25 years and for 20 of those years she has been running operations at Green Ronin and creating some of the most daring and interesting projects, not to mention her never-ending passion for a healthy and diverse RPG fandom. Green Ronin now has a project republish the Book of Fiends for 5E, a book that delves into the nasty and truly horrific nature of ev...

Aegis of Empires Adventure Path is the current project to release an enormous adventure from Legendary Games. It comes in for Pathfinder 1 and 2 and also for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Check out Aegis of Empires Adv...

Safety around a table is important for some people and Brie Beau Sheldon has been working at it, not just for RPGs but also for our own culture for a while. In this interview, I talk to him about his work. Playing roleplaying games can be a tricky experience for some people, but with a bit of thought we can make sure everyone has the same amount of fun and enjoyment and the Script Change is a tool...

This write one-shot RPG adventure competition has been designed and deployed by the company Saga Events as a mean to get people into moving their RPG writing creative muscles during this COVID19 pandemic that is seeing us in lockdown at home.

Pelgrane Press has been a referent in the world of TTRPGs for a very long time. They keep producing some amazing work and have some iconic games in their catalogue. But, who’s behind? That would be Cat Tobin!

Erik Scott de Bie has written, among others, for Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons and knows how to take the most interesting parts of a game and turn it into a novel and take the best bit of a story and bring them into an adventure.

Hopping Doom from Out of the Swamp- the Frogfolk of Porphyra! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazineSupport Endzeitgeist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=433233You can buy the Frogfolk of Porphyra!for 5E in DrivethruRPG: http://bit.ly/39KiBc7...

Lots of people want to write #LGBTQI characters in #TTRPG but don’t really know how to do it. In this episode, I talked to Steve Kenson, from Green Ronin Publishing about how to go about it in the safest possible way.

ENPublishing released #JudgeDredd after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the game has seen some interesting releases added to it. So why aren’t more people into it? This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   Judge Dredd has been a referent in the...

Kickstarters are a really important part of TTRPG publishing and some companies depend on it. Shades of Vengeance is one of said companies with more than 50 projects on their backs. How do they do it?   This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   When E...

A Blessing and a Curse brings an interesting way to create new magical items with relevance. But is this book worth getting. Endzeitgeist tells you about it! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Please support Endzeitgeist Patreon: http://bit.ly/En...

Something Wicked is the latest release from Frenzy Kitty Games, one of the very few (if not the only) #TTRPG in South Africa. Does this Pulp Horror game have enough to offer? Let’s ask the author! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine You can buy So...

#Chaosium’s line Editor Dr. Lynne Hardy is a true expert on the matter of finding gaps and holes in stories and #RPGs, and thus, she knows a lot about our topic: Reality vs. Verisimilitude. This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Whether it is a Fanta...

The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our podcast. Endzeitgeist’s Patreon: http://bit.ly/EndzeitgeistYou can buy Gibbous Moon from here: http:...

101 Cursed Items bring us exactly that thanks to Zenith Games. This is a review from Endzeitgeist.   The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our...