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Chatty jumps from an unexpected cliff… and catches an updraft.

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Last week I was prepping for a one shot D&D 4e game.

I got this really good idea and it started eating my brain as good runaway ideas are wont to do.

I sat down to write a blog post about it when my nascent buisness sense chimed in.

You see, after Gen Con, the guys at Critical Hits and I agreed to send one submission each to a RPG publisher (namely Dragon or Dungeon Magazines) before the end of September.

So instead of making a blog post with the idea, I re-edited it and made it into a submission proposal.  I sent this proposal to Goodman Games.

While waiting for the answer I tried my concept in our one shot game.

It worked beyond my wildest expectations!

Early last week I got an email from Harley Stroh who works at Goodman, saying that my idea was cool enough to make it into an adventure anthology, provided Goodman Games did a second one (There’s one planned for December).

This morning he chimed back in saying the project was approved!

So come Gen Con 2009, I will likely hold in my hands a hardcover RPG product with my name in the writing credits!

Joy!

I owe a lot of this to you all dear readers. I’m just bummed I probably won’t be able to share my idea with you before then.

Have a great weekend, I’m spending mine playing D&D with my buddies tomorrow night and playtesting 2 sessions of Kobold Love Saturday.

Comments

  3. So… is this to say that any idea previously blogged about (even vaguely) would generally NOT be eligible for submission to a publisher like Goodman or WotC?

    No, not at all. But since this is all news to me and I have not seen the paperwork, I’m playing it super safe!

  5. From your official roadie-stalker-minion I will once again say you rock! Congrats dude. You’ve earned it!

  10. Awesome!

    I met Harley at Gen Con a couple years ago, and really, he’s just one of the nicest guys I’ve met in gaming.

    Be sure to talk about the process once you’re published. I’d love to know the ins-and-outs.

  11. When you’re a big fancy-pants RPG developer some day, don’t forget us little people! 🙂

  13. Congratulations! It sounds like things are really picking up, between your Chatty Studios work and freelancing success.

    Of course, that means you have to go write it all up now. I guess there’s a drawback to everything– though pay sounds like a nice compensation.

    Scott Ms last blog post..Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber

  14. Congrats! Though I imagine it must be hard keeping track of all these projects… still, fun stress beats monotony, right?

  19. Thanks one and all.

    I really don’t want to jinxs anything by revealing too much. But I will keep you informed of the steps revolving around dealing with a publisher and such.

  23. Welcome to the blog Fresh and Monkey.

    As I mentioned on a writing blog I read, my success so far has been part talent, mostly hard work and way too much guts for my own good.

    🙂

  24. Awesome! You are officially an industry professional – expect 6-12 weeks for delivery of your +10 ring of sneaking up on people.

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