A designer's newsletter for tabletop RPG creators covering freelance business topics like pricing models and rates, alongside curated design links and game jams. It mixes candid personal reflection with practical frameworks for getting paid as a freelancer.
Website: https://www.explorersdesign.com/
A studio newsletter from the makers of the tabletop RPG Hollows, covering game design decisions, community jams and behind-the-scenes stories. Readers get design insight into tactical combat and monster building, plus personal anecdotes from the designers.
A weekly newsletter revisiting classic and contemporary fantasy through archival interviews, art showcases, and fantasy news roundups. Readers get illustrated deep dives into authors, artists, gamebooks, and old-school fantasy culture.
A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.
RPG Drop is an independent hub covering tabletop roleplaying games and crowdfunding through interviews with designers, cartographers and publishers. Its issues offer in-depth creator conversations on craft, business practice and the state of Kickstarter and the hobby.
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