#AprilTTRPGmaker Being a TTRPG designer means…

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: poverty.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: emotional highs and lows.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: disappointment.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: a huge sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: drama.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: providing fun and games to people all around the world.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: having your every design decision questioned and misinterpreted.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: creating people and worlds that can have profound meaning to people.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: letting other people play with your baby.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: constantly learning new and interesting things.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: answering questions and queries.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: innovation and the honouring of tradition in equal measure.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: telling people no, more than you’d perhaps like.

Being a tabletop role-playing game designer means: sometimes having to do something for yourself, rather than your customers.

#AprilTTRPGmaker People who’ve helped you?

Steve Jackson Games gave me (us) our first break (though I’m still sore over Munchkin).

Ubermunchkin, who wrote that first book with me.

My dad who nurtured my interest in sci-fi, fantasy and games.

Mongoose Publishing who gave me my first freelancing gigs.

Dave Allsop who trusted me with his baby.

Angus Abranson, the nexus point of the UK gaming industry and a good friend.

Long time artistic collaborator, Brad.

DarkZel – miss you all the time buddy.

Bar, who invested money at the worst possible time to do so but doesn’t hold a grudge.

The friends who stood steadfast during the storms of controversy – you know who you are.

Everyone who has supported the DarkZel scholarship.