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How to Visit the Strip Club, part 1

When I wrote about the Bachelor party in my previous post I got some great positive feedback. It seems like there are a lot of guys who just didn’t know. They didn’t think about that stuff. I guess if you haven’t been married three times you don’t learn from your mistakes. I mean Ideally you only want to have one bachelor party but in 2013 the odds of that are against you. Yes the fifteen years behind the wheel helped me learn the dos and don’ts. Personally I’ve probably spent ten thousand hours in clubs over the years. I’ve worked in strip clubs, I’ve drank in strip clubs, I’ve dated strippers. It’s odd. When you work in nightlife you don’t meet normal women. When you do meet normal women they commonly leave skid marks when they leave. When you can’t make plans on the weekends because you are always working. When you can’t go to a club or a bar anywhere and not see people you’ve known and worked with. Well, some women don’t like that. Mostly normal women but I digress. The fi...

Is Kickstarter bad for RPGs?

This will be a complicated piece, and a complex issue. So let me start with a few caveats and a few statements. First, I love roleplaying games. I have been playing them since I was eleven. I feel they are a part of me at my very core. I am not complaining about RPGs. Second, I have a great many friends that make their living in the RPG industry. These are some fantastic people, and they mean well. Lastly, even though I like the idea of Kickstarter ‘crowd-funding’ as a whole is headed for a cliff. I apologize to everyone I am going to offend, and I am going to offend people. There has been a renaissance of Kickstarter projects in the RPG industry that is unprecedented. Many have been so successful that they have raised over a hundred thousand dollars and wildly exceeded their goals by five hundred percent or more. While on the surface this might seem to be a great boon to RPGs as a whole I think this is the beginning of the end. There are a great many things that Ki...

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My name is Ross Winn and I write. When I first started writing I wrote for myself, and for my roleplaying games. Then I wrote for other people’s roleplaying games. Then I wrote a column about RPGs. Then I was going to write and publish my own RPG. Then in 2008 things went south. My business was failing, my attention was too many places, and my options were limited. I had never thought seriously about making a living in RPGs. It was, as my friend called it a self-supporting hobby. When my primary business went south I had to focus, drop all of my side projects, and that included even taking time for playing any RPGs. I was sad, but I had to eat, and so did my son. In 2011 things were getting better. I had written a Livejournal ( http://ross-winn.livejournal.com/ ) for some time. I had a Blogger account ( http://reformedcyberpunk.blogspot.com/ ), and I had the urge to write, but the urge to play was gone. I decided to try my hand at fiction, and so one day I started writing down a...

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