The Price of Words: Valuing a PDF

Recently, there has been discourse on the social medias about the prices we pay (or perhaps rather, do not pay) for our RPG PDFs, including the thread by Chris Bissette of LootTheRoom, and a sternly worded blogpost from Ramona of Alderdoodle. Discussing the value of RPGs is of course something I have done before , and every time I see this discourse, I am tempted to get involved (as indeed I sometimes do ). However, I find that my opinions on this issue are too nuanced to be neatly presented in a series of social media posts, hence, a blog post. Another few bits of preamble that I would like to make clear, is that I don't want to dispute what Chris and Ramona are saying. They run tabletop businesses, I do not. I am just a customer and hobbyist creator. Probably the kind who ought to buy more PDFs. An Outside Look a the Landscape Let's start with an assumption that we can hopefully all agree upon: A professional RPG writer designer deserves to be compensated fairly for the...