LOl I have no idea. I've never dealt with Amazon.

Guess I gotta come up with some good short stories

But a lot of "publishing houses" charge you for the printing, then you have to find people to buy your copies.

dam

makes sense

I wrote a roleplaying game system. I have the core rules, a playable module, and the first three expansion books for it, ready to publish, in printable format.

damn

I mean, the competition for RPG is gonna be tuft considering Dungeons and Dragons exist

Every company I shopped it to declined, because they want people to write *their* stuff, not new systems. So I looked into self-publishing it.

that kinda makes sense, no? charging for printing the books, even if they aren't successful

it's a gamble for them

yup

Not really; there are at least thirty successful game systems on the market.

I only know of DD, I've never heard of 29 others, name 3

Rifts, Gurps, West End Games Star Wars, World of Darkness, Fusion, Vampire; The Masquerade...

DAMN

ok

u win

As far as charging you to print, an actual publishing house will either forego the cost, or charge the first run out of your profits.

I never thought about writing an Tabletop RPG, but uhm...with Warcraft making their own, between that and those other 30 ones, It's gonna get heavily competitive, so Imma pass.

I'll have to find something else to write.

But as for my game, to self-publish, it would have run me around $15,000 per thousand copies, paperback format, black and white.

...Then I would have had to find people to sell them, or schlep them myself.

doesn't look like Amazon charges you, but I only receive about on average 60% of the actual profits, if even that. But because they have Ebooks, there's no printing, so I can publish it for free, and at least get a start up on it.

Think I'll start it up there, and once I get a good jumpstart, sell the new stuff elsewhere, as well as hard copies

sounds like some serious work

Yep. In the end, I just decided to give it away. I'd rather people enjoy it, than it never see the light of day until I'm dead.

*if I can get the motivation that is, I've been focused on my fanfic lately* <:KEK:795742276549607456>

Yeah I getcha

Maybe some big time publishing company will see it, and they'll invest in it, you never know

50 Shades of Grey started as a Twilight fanfic...

Yes I know

but that would require me to completely recreate and re-establish the story itself

Over time 50 Shades of Grey became a new story

having not much to do with the original franchise

I don't want to ruin what's already been established in my Fanfiction

If it's not in a distinct universe, file off the serial numbers and go for it. LOL

I think DBZ is pretty distinct

wait what

yup

how

I can't see the resemblance

they changed a few names here and there