quartz/content/vault/Sandbox/Writer's guild.md

Landon Zea 385 497 2188

negatives:

• lots of problems people talk about. look up:

  • why i left dms guild
  • problems with dms guild

• iron fist about what's ok piece of art that was too much like official dnd content. shut down entire deal until obeyed.

• biig cut. 50% goes to dnd

• interface not modern

• not a ton of people are very dedicated

positives:

• tons of attention from dnd company.
• conversations with corporate.
• fantastic community involvement and support
• you can straight up pull characters and entire pages from existing dnd books
• like onebookshelf <- more general
• scouting system. 'adepts' are more in the know, can get exclusive access to unreleased stuff to write stuff ahead of time.
• art
  • writers get free art from dnd company
  • maybe connect artists/illustrators
• pay what you want price (price discrimination)

notes

• people collaborate on google docs and an unofficial discord server, send result to formatter.
  • asking questions about vampire lore, historical accuracy, asking for more writers, asking for/about art, selling art in dedicated discord channels
  • the community is very liberal. don't say anything right-wing or central or you get kicked off the server
• ranking system of sellers -- this helps with seeking out quality stuff

OGL - open gaming license Big games like dnd make some sections (about a single book's worth) of their content public domain in order to stimulate creation, and to avoid having to enforce copyright claims to common content.

There's a ton of content, dnd is kinda blowing up. Especially in middle schools and high schools.

notable names

laura hirsbrunner keith baker taron pounds video about the platform Christopher Patterson