iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 27/10/2023

For two years now, I have been a professional TTRPG designer: eight hours a day, five days a week. I used to be a hobbyist, making books on nights and weekends. I taught myself design principles and theory in order to make my work better, so that it could be judged by and against professionals.

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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 27/10/2023

And for anyone reading this who may be a hobbyist and worried that their work simply cannot stand to be judged against the "Big Names" in our industry, I present this picture from 5E's "Exclusive Box Set" DM screen. The difference between you and them is passion and skill, and you're ahead.

Picture of a DMs Screen, showing two conspicuous breaks in sentences that leave single words on their own line.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

So the text got laid out so lay out looked at it. Then a proof reader looked at it. Guess an editor would have had a look at that in theory. They'd have got the print copies and these would have had to be approved. So that's 4-5 times the number of people looking at it that most indie games get.

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