Career Building A - Publishing (Silver)

Learn to design and publish original TTRPG content. Covers self-publishing, working with publishers, licensing, contracts, freelance rates, invoicing, and intellectual property.

Career Building A - Publishing (Silver)

by Prof. Elisa Teague and Beth the Bard

Learn from industry professionals how to design, refine, and publish original TTRPG content, from adventures and campaign settings to supplemental materials. Topics include self-publishing strategies, working with publishers and licensing partners, navigating contracts, and managing freelance logistics such as rates, invoicing, and intellectual property rights.

Meet Your Professor

Elisa Teague

A 24 year veteran in the Tabletop Games Industry, Elisa Teague has worked on over 100 published card and board games, written for various RPGs including Dungeons & Dragons, the Marvel Multiverse TTRPG, Welcome to Nightvale, The Crooked Moon, Gloomhaven, Imarian Nights, Wardlings, Kids on Bikes, and many more.

Elisa was previously Senior Producer of Roleplaying Games at Renegade Game Studios, where she wrote and produced roleplaying books for the Power Rangers, G.I. Joe, and Transformers RPGs as well as Vampire: the Masquerade and the World of Darkness line. Known for social intrigue, deep mystery plots, and puzzles in her writing, she wrote the chapter on how to use puzzles in your game for D&D’s Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, was lead designer of board games such as Geek Out!, Kingdom Hearts Talisman, Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widows Walk, and co-designer and art director of Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, and has designed puzzle events and ARGs for some of the largest companies and events in the world.

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Meet Your Professor

Beth the Bard

Beth is a professional, therapeutic Dungeon Master that as run more than 1,000 D&D games! She's the best-selling and award-nominated TTRPG author of She is the Ancient, a Curse of Strahd supplement. She writes for companies such as Modiphius and Dungeon in a Box and runs TTRPG University, a hub of courses and information for industry enthusiasts and professionals. She and her partner have created Bardhouse Studios, a TTRPG publishing company for creatives.

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