Most of these creative businesses people daydream about are vanishing small, but none is so tiny as #TTRPGs. There are perhaps a hundred or so real, workaday-world jobs in the whole “industry”. And once you get past WotC, Paizo and Chaosium, that ground grows very sparse indeed.
People like to imagine some complex creative ecosystem of pros and non-pros, but in #TTRPGs, that line is blurred so much as to not exist. A nobody with no backing can win game of the year, and sell more than enough to make it all worthwhile all on their own.
I have worked professionally in #comics, #books, #videogames, and #cardgames and none of them approach the level of freedom and ease-of-liftoff of #TTRPGs. It is quite literally something you can just choose to try without a huge wind-up or buy-in from some tastemaker.
So, if you want to make #TTRPGs, go make them. My only advice is keep your team as small as is possible (this means wearing a lot of hats) and getting stuff out in the hopes of spinning it up over time; don’t expect something to hit right out of the gate.
And, if you need any advice and you think I can help, drop me a DM — that is if you don’t mind hearing the truth — and I’ll do what I can to assist you. Cheers.
(Oh, and if this message somehow rubs you the wrong way like it did the person that just sent me a frantic and completely insane-pants DM…)
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