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Introduction to Publishing Contracts for Indie RPG Writers

An overview of your rights and publishers’ responsibilities

Posted byLīber LūdōrumAugust 15, 2022Posted inReferenceTags:contracts, publishing5 Comments on Introduction to Publishing Contracts for Indie RPG Writers

Frontier Scum: a review & retrospective

Acid Western roleplaying on the Lost Frontier

Posted byLīber LūdōrumAugust 1, 2022August 1, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:graphic design, indie, materiality, textuality, ttrpg2 Comments on Frontier Scum: a review & retrospective

Necromancer Dice: a review

The aesthetics and statistics of Cyberdicegames’s eye-catching offering

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJuly 18, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:design, dice, materiality, ttrpg2 Comments on Necromancer Dice: a review

Texts on Designing Texts

Catherine M Wood, "Old books", n.d. Public domain.

An annotated bibliography of instructional resources for graphic design

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJune 13, 2022Posted inReferenceTags:graphic design, textuality, typographyLeave a comment on Texts on Designing Texts

Apollo 47 Technical Handbook: a material review-essay

The moon cropped from a photo by Partizia Strippoli. It is used under CC BY 4.0.

In space, no on can hear you yawn.

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 16, 2022March 20, 2023Posted inReviewsTags:hutchings, materiality, space, textualityLeave a comment on Apollo 47 Technical Handbook: a material review-essay

Death Charades: a review

Modified from an etching by J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.

For partygoers who want to kill some time and themselves

Posted byLīber LūdōrumApril 25, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:cards, charades, death, death charadesLeave a comment on Death Charades: a review

Revaluating RPGs, Abridged

A summary & discussion of my paper about RPGs and art

Posted byLīber LūdōrumApril 13, 2022October 21, 2022Posted inTheoryTags:Theory, ttrpg3 Comments on Revaluating RPGs, Abridged

Charity Bundle Cavalcade

18 bite-size reviews of TTRPGs from the Trans Rights and Ukraine bundles

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 28, 2022July 15, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:graphic design, indie, materiality, solo, textuality, ttrpg1 Comment on Charity Bundle Cavalcade

A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of their Remove, Part 4: Winter

The irony of the circle’s end

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 14, 2022November 15, 2024Posted inCriticism, ReviewsTags:A Divorce of Druids, indie, Long Tail Games, narrative, ttrpgLeave a comment on A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of their Remove, Part 4: Winter

A Typology of TTRPG Consumers

Some thoughts on understanding behavior in the TTRPG market

Posted byLīber LūdōrumFebruary 14, 2022Posted inTheoryTags:behavioral economics, consumers, industry, ttrpg3 Comments on A Typology of TTRPG Consumers

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