Sean Merwin

Ooh, yes. A couple of Grim Hollow preview adventures will be there. One regular adventure and one epic. So I'm looking forward to seeing how those go. I apparently will be overseeing the running of the epic, which happens twice. So looking forward to doing that along with my friend and co-conspirator on that, Joe Rosso. And we'll talk more about it when we get back.

Ooh, yes. A couple of Grim Hollow preview adventures will be there. One regular adventure and one epic. So I'm looking forward to seeing how those go. I apparently will be overseeing the running of the epic, which happens twice. So looking forward to doing that along with my friend and co-conspirator on that, Joe Rosso. And we'll talk more about it when we get back.

We'll have much more to say, but safe travels to everybody heading to lovely Fort Wayne, Indiana in February. Shouldn't be terrible. Maybe a little icy at times because it's right at that wrong temperature. But we'll see.

We'll have much more to say, but safe travels to everybody heading to lovely Fort Wayne, Indiana in February. Shouldn't be terrible. Maybe a little icy at times because it's right at that wrong temperature. But we'll see.

Yeah. And someone what else we'll see there hopefully are some listeners and listeners have been sending their stuff to us. So here we go with our listener corner, starting with Tim Hibbets via our Patreon. Hi, I was hoping you'd cover these in the TTRPG career section, but I would love to know the details of what a TTRPG editor and art director really do. Thanks.

Yeah. And someone what else we'll see there hopefully are some listeners and listeners have been sending their stuff to us. So here we go with our listener corner, starting with Tim Hibbets via our Patreon. Hi, I was hoping you'd cover these in the TTRPG career section, but I would love to know the details of what a TTRPG editor and art director really do. Thanks.

So we've talked about the industry before. And so I think this is what Tim is referring to. And we may have done a little bit of glossing over. So let's take a moment to step through some of these positions, talk about what they do and how it may differ from company to company, or project to project. Sound good?

So we've talked about the industry before. And so I think this is what Tim is referring to. And we may have done a little bit of glossing over. So let's take a moment to step through some of these positions, talk about what they do and how it may differ from company to company, or project to project. Sound good?

Okay, here we go. So let's take a sort of larger company, we'll say a medium-sized company that works on projects that involve publishing multiple books at one time. So we'll go kind of large here to cover the full range. I'll do this sort of like a process. So when the book is being created, there's a bunch of planning that goes on, obviously. And then the writing begins.

Okay, here we go. So let's take a sort of larger company, we'll say a medium-sized company that works on projects that involve publishing multiple books at one time. So we'll go kind of large here to cover the full range. I'll do this sort of like a process. So when the book is being created, there's a bunch of planning that goes on, obviously. And then the writing begins.

So let's start with when the writing begins. The writing begins with the designers. The designers are the people who do the writing on the book. That design may be rules. It could be lore. It could be narrative. It could be adventures. But that one term designer covers a lot of things. If you are doing a large book, you may have multiple designers working on the book.

So let's start with when the writing begins. The writing begins with the designers. The designers are the people who do the writing on the book. That design may be rules. It could be lore. It could be narrative. It could be adventures. But that one term designer covers a lot of things. If you are doing a large book, you may have multiple designers working on the book.

So therefore, there will be a lead designer. The lead designer stands in for all of the other designers in this process and collects the designer's work when they're done and hopefully will review it and make sure it's good before it goes on to the next step in the process. Now, the lead designer may be a designer who does part of the book and then collects the others.

So therefore, there will be a lead designer. The lead designer stands in for all of the other designers in this process and collects the designer's work when they're done and hopefully will review it and make sure it's good before it goes on to the next step in the process. Now, the lead designer may be a designer who does part of the book and then collects the others.

It may be somebody who doesn't actually do the design of the original, but takes it in and covers the the text that comes in.

It may be somebody who doesn't actually do the design of the original, but takes it in and covers the the text that comes in.

Exactly, exactly. Now, sometimes a company or a project may differentiate between a designer and a writer. Whereas a designer will be the one designing rules, the writer may be doing the text that's adventure design, narrative design, and so on. Sometimes there's a differentiation, sometimes there's not.

Exactly, exactly. Now, sometimes a company or a project may differentiate between a designer and a writer. Whereas a designer will be the one designing rules, the writer may be doing the text that's adventure design, narrative design, and so on. Sometimes there's a differentiation, sometimes there's not.

But if there are many writers, then there may be a lead writer who acts the same way that a lead designer would only for the writing. Cool. So we've got text coming in. Once that text gets in and it passes through all the design team, it will often go to a developer.

But if there are many writers, then there may be a lead writer who acts the same way that a lead designer would only for the writing. Cool. So we've got text coming in. Once that text gets in and it passes through all the design team, it will often go to a developer.