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A topic by blake stone / fenced forest created Nov 07, 2019 Views: 416 Replies: 9
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use this thread to post links to education work that has already been done, and resources you find useful.

the links will be compiled at the end of the jam.

if the work is your own, feel free to submit it to the jam as well as linking it here!

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https://medium.com/@sandypuggames/7-questions-i-get-asked-about-kickstarter-40de67a89db1
Here's some work I did talking about some very common questions I get on Kickstarter

http://www.sandypuggames.com/2018/07/20/orc-stabr-audio-edition/

Here's a sort-of-guide on how to do Audio-book editions for TTRPGs

http://www.sandypuggames.com/2018/06/06/orc-stabr-my-first-kickstarter/

And while I'm here, this isn't really in-scope but I did a pretty extensive breakdown of my first Kickstarter that has a ton of great info for new people.

Simple World is a guide to creating PbtA games that I find extremely helpful.
http://buriedwithoutceremony.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/simple-world.pdf

Here's Dee Pennyway's tweet-based guide on creating layouts with Google Docs:

https://twitter.com/DeePennyway/status/1161627424397901824

There is the Unified (QT)POC Standard Requirements written DC and a several other (QT)POC on how to keep marginalized people from bein taken advantage on the business side of RPGs:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Ea7_hWJzVmnO3O4MU03FKClKF6WAQWNvPB4E0_PjbQ/...

Which I sourced from here: https://swordsfall.com/blogs/the-ttrpg-community/important-links-unified-qtpoc-standard-requirements

Also this twitter thread by Avery Alder on what was good and what was BS about the 2000's online game design discourse: https://twitter.com/lackingceremony/status/1170452123521187840

here's a quick guide thing i did to pwyw games on itch that i think are  great to learn different aspects of design from!

https://itch.io/c/602475/games-that-make-you-think-a-crash-course-in-ttrpg-design

I put together a blog post to save some twitter posts I've found useful https://cantrip.wordpress.com/2019/11/06/interesting-useful-twitter-posts-for-rp...

Here is Dee Pennyways explanation of what a community copy is https://twitter.com/DeePennyway/status/1187702222819381248

And her "how to" guide about setting up discount and community copies on itch https://twitter.com/DeePennyway/status/1174861271839195142

The RPG Design Panelcast has hundreds of panels recorded from Metatopia that cover pretty much every question this community could ask:

https://genesisoflegend.podbean.com

Cardboard Edison aggregates and archives dozens of insights from the board game industry every week:

https://cardboardedison.com