Emmett Plant Talks About the Paper-Based RPG Game Business (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Monday January 6, 2014 @09:51AM from the paper-games-never-quite-went-away dept.

Emmett has a good rep as a video game music composer, and he's worked on a number of Star Trek-related projects, including the recently-released audio book, How to Speak Klingon: Essential Phrases for the Intergalactic Traveler. Emmett freely admits that he has no experience with RPG games. The closest he's come was running a major D&D meetup some years back. But he has experience and contacts developed from many years working online not only within the Star Trek community but (years ago) on Slashdot and as editor for Linux.com. And, he says, when he was a teenager he ran comic book stores. So is Emmett suited to run an RPG company? Possibly. He's actively looking for games to publish. Sales aren't going to start for six months or so, so there is no website for Arrakeen Tactical quite yet. Until there is one, you can contact Emmett about his game venture by emailing angelaATclockworkjetpack.com.

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Re:I like 'em, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-06 11:17 · Score: 2, Interesting
Out of curiosity, what is it that you're hoping to bring to the industry? E.g:
- Novel mechanics (i.e., not a modification of D20)
- Novel setting
- Novel "infrastructure" (e.g., tools that help GMs run better/more organized sessions, etc.)
- Content for an existing system/setting
Based on your interview and initial focus on authors and writers, it seems more like you're setting up to essentially produce premium content for existing settings/platforms.