How do I make money of RPGs /tg?

How do I make money of RPGs /tg?

Sell some stuff you find in dungeons, do basic muscle or magic jobs around town, take quests..

You can also work on crafting skills and then sell what you make.

Ask yourself how do you distribute them to the rest of the world.

Make them. Or at least get involved in the production of them in some way.

There are some proffesional GM's apparently , but I seriously would never pay for a GM and have no idea why anyone would.

The money is dog shit there. Even D&D is barely justifiable for WoTC. Given that how do I monetize effectively?

Make smartphone shovelware with microtransactions.

vidyas

Have you guys considered
Let's plays

What does that have to do with anything?

He probably means youtube "celebrities" who gain popularity streaming game plays and then shill this popularity for money. Like Wheatshisname and Camelface. The bitch charges couple grad a weekend just for showing up at an event. Plus accommodation and travel expenses.

The best chance to make a living off it is probably to be a writer and get hired by a publisher. WotC, Paizo, Pegasus, you name it. And then your pay probably isn't going to look good.

Other than that, self-publishing and treating it as a hobby that might generate some cash is probably the best you can do.

>And then your pay probably isn't going to look good.
Wizards of the Coast has pretty good pay and benefits, like in the $60k - $80k range for regular staff, higher for managers/directors.

Yeah, but apart from Paizo there's nobody even remotely in the same weightclass. I really doubt that Posthuman Studios, Onyx Path, Catalyst, Chaosium or whatnot are paying the same. Steven Jackson Games, maybe, I heard good things about them.
I mean, if they are that's great, more power to them, but it's not exactly a rich industry.

Maybe my outlook is a bit more bleak since I'm trying to break into the industry and I'm trying to keep my hopes down. Better to underestimate your income than to overestimate it.

I had a job offer from fantasy flight I turned down... it's was good pay but I couldn't handle the weather at HQ

Well, with FFG, SJG or even WotC, you are probably expected to design other things than RPGs too, so I'm not even sure that you should count them with pure RPG companies.

Steal shit at your local game store, sell it on ebay.

OP, can you tell us a bit more about the specific things you enjoy doing with RPGs? I myself have a passion for the puzzling side of things, and enjoy solo adventures.

As in the figurative weather - the attitude of the people? (sorry, I'm ESL, some colloquialisms escape me)

I'm not OP, but your question is still valid.

We have this thread every few weeks, but it's Japan you should be looking at for monetizing lets-plays.
A surprising number of animes and books have been based on lets-plays. You essentially turn the game into a story, then sell the story like any other writer.

It's as obtuse to me as it is to you, omae.

DIsclaimer: I am not rich, nor creatively employed. My answer is basically worthless.

However, I believe these guys are on the right path. The first step would be to well-known for something else than RPGs.

Like porn, or being an insufferable sometime actor on an insufferable sitcom.

Then you do the "AM GONNA MAKE A ARRPEEGEE LOL XD SO NERDTY"

And then you do this: Or at least, you create a really good smartphone app for use with your game.

Then you wait ten years for the people who grew up with smart phones to start GMing.

Webcomics sound like a good place to start first. Make a world with some neat hooks and you'll have a playerbase before the rpg is even out.

Plus you can illustrate your own stuff and save money.

So all you need to do is be famous, and then you can make money off of your fame?

It's all so simple, why didn't anyone else think of this?

Shhhh!
You're giving away my Donut Steel business model!

The question came to me from something I was thinking about yesterday. I learned of a man who was obsessed with horticulture. I know a lot of guys who are really into that, and took up various horticulture jobs, as growers, university professors, farmers. But this man got real specific about his passion which was to make lawns real nice, and he built a multimillion dollar landscaping business doing what he loved, without having to handle university shit students, or the fluctuating animal feed market, or other things he didn't like. Landscaping has its own problems, but he didn't mind them because of how obsessed he is with the perfect lawn.

I kind of hope OP and/or myself can do something like that, maybe.

>The money is dog shit there.

That wasn't the question.

The question was how to make money. If there is some kind of quota you want to meet then ask that dumbass.

>DIsclaimer: I am not rich, nor creatively employed. My answer is basically worthless.
>The only people who ever got rich or creatively employed are the rich and creatively employed