The Mushroom Press Design Blog

Writers live in their own private hell

I swear to god when I'm done re-writing this playtest module I'll be able to write anything. Hunchback of Notre Dame? No Problem. For whom the bell tolls? Child's play. Paradise lost? More like paradise.... Floss?

So here's some advice if you want to write your own roleplaying games: be prepared to write the same thing about ten times. Then have it torn to shreds when you playtest, and then write it again.

In theory, if you can get through that, you've got the chops to be an RPG writer. I'll let you know if it works out for me.