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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications

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Freelance TTRPG writer/designer/tester available for hire. Sr. Contract Tester, MCDM. Posts are my own. He/him. Business: [email protected].

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hi, I'm Spencer. I'm a freelance TTRPG designer and tester, and I'm definitely not a kobold with a fake mustache. I'd love to work with you!

Portfolio: pestopublications.com
Newsletter: pestopublications.substack.com
Store: pestopublications.itch.io
Email: [email protected]

Image showing the products I've worked on. Flee, Mortals!, Kingdoms & Warfare: Urban Intrigue, and Elminster's Excellent Establishments under the writing side, and Arcadia, O Captain, and Uncaged Goddesses under the testing side.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

One important thing about the ShareAlike license is that the ShareAlike provision ONLY applies to the content under that license.

So if you use a CC BY-SA font in your product, you still retain copyright for everything but the font and DO NOT have to release the whole project under a free license.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

Let's say you're doing a translation into Portuguese. The new digital attribution would be:

Draw Steel Glyphs in Portuguese is adapted from Draw Steel Glyphs Font by MCDM Productions, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Draw Steel Glyphs in Portuguese is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by [your name here].

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

2) ShareAlike. This means that if you modify the font package, you must do two things:

a) release the modifications under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license

b) when you do the attribution, indicate that you've made modifications (and optionally, in a few, words what they are)

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

For a print product:

Draw Steel Glyphs Font (mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr...) by MCDM Productions is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-....

Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons

creativecommons.org

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

For a digital product:

Draw Steel Glyphs Font by MCDM Productions is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Draw Steel Glyphs Font would link to the download URL in the first post of the thread.

MCDM Productions would link to MCDM's website.

CC BY-SA 4.0 would link to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...

Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons

creativecommons.org

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

Obligatory I am not a lawyer.

There are two big requirements with a CC-BY-SA license.

1) Attribution. Creative Commons has a guide for how to do attribution: wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Recomme...

wiki.creativecommons.org

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10h

MCDM just released the symbols they use in stat blocks under a free license.

mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr...

If you've never worked with a CC-BY-SA license, check out the thread for some guidance.

mcdm.gg

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 3d

The hot one.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 6d

Their loss.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 10d

Haven is 90% off on Steam.

It's one of those games where - if you judge it by its individual components - nothing really stands out.

7/10 art. 7/10 gameplay. 8/10 writing. 9/10 soundtrack. Etcetera.

And then you finish it and put it down and somehow it's one of the best games you've ever played.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 12d

So many people wouldn't have art for their projects if not for Dean's reasonably priced stock art and holiday free giveaways.

Dean Spencer Art @deanspencerart.bsky.social · 13d

Hi everyone, can I ask you all a favour? please share this with your RPG creator friends.
Our car has failed the MOT, and to get it fixed is just not worth the money that needs spending on it. So, got to get a replacement as soon as possible.
25% OFF STOCK ART available on DriveThruRPG.
LINKS IN BIO

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 12d

Whomever at @backerkit.com came up with overtime mode is a genius.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 16d

Happy birthday!

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 16d

Took me 40 days to get my payments out.

I switched over to having the money hit my bank account directly after that.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 17d

Damn it. Thanks.

One day someone will implement that and we can all leave DTRPG, their 30/35% cut, and their anti-creator stance on AI behind.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 17d

I just want to add that when I commission artists, the first thing I look for is their portfolio.

I do not have a Facebook account. If their portfolio is only on Instagram (or any other site that requires me to have an account before I can view their work), I won't consider them.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 17d

Does it support automated revenue sharing?

Most sufficiently large collaborations needs revenue sharing, and right now the only site that offers that is DTRPG.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 17d

Scum and Villainy. Every time I've run it, it's just been the best, most chaotic time.

(Note that I run FitD games without position and effect rules. YRMV.)

Triangle Agency is rapidly reaching that point too, but it has a lot more acclaim.

Superdillin (Mirror your pronouns) @superdillin.bsky.social · 22d

Do you have a ttrpg that in your opinion is so under celebrated that you have appointed yourself head of the PR committee for that game? Where on at least one occasion someone mistakenly assumed you must have worked on it but really you're just unwell about it?

What's that game to you?

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 25d

TOASTER?!

OMFG. A+ naming.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 25d

DriveThru is the biggest storefront for TTRPGs and Itch is their only real competitor.

The person I originally responded to is in the TTRPG space.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 25d

I don't know any other storefront that manually reviews every payment before it goes out.

DriveThruRPG, for all its faults, you hit a button and the money transfers.

It should all be automated, but he created an unnecessary bottleneck that he can no longer manage and people are rightfully angry.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 26d

I have a hard time believing that it's just Leaf.

Regardless, the fastest way to burn goodwill is to fuck with people's money. It took them ~40 days to pay me, and their Discord is filled with people that were waiting even longer.

One person or many, that's no way to operate a business.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 26d

And boy do they NOT deserve it.

We need alternatives that do things like:
1) Give people their money in a timely fashion
2) Answer support tickets in a timely fashion
3) Communicate effectively about site issues
4) Release useful new features
5) Do something, anything, to aid discoverability

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 28d

If they never got back to you and you're still looking for someone to run a session for you, let me know. I'm MCDM's contract senior tester (though I'm reaching out here in an individual capacity), and I've already run onboarding sessions for a bunch of designers.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah. But some of them are like that, just cables, while some of them have independent USB power.

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