Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray joins me to walk through how to make an RPG book! In this second part, we discuss the process by which RPG books are created, using examples from Scott's career working on amazing books such as Draw Steel, Daggerheart, Forge of Foes, Core 20, D&D, and much more! Part 2 specifically looks at proofreading, layout, art and art orders, print preparation, PDFs vs offset vs print-on-demand, and more!

Contents
00:00 Intro
01:07 Proofreading
04:07 Layout
08:43 Initial Layout Design
13:02 Flowing Copy and Word Processor Choices
18:36 Art and Art Orders
30:43 Bleed
33:22 Rewriting After Initial Layout
39:24 Don't Write in Layout
43:21 Final Proofread and Layout
49:31 PDF vs PoD vs Offset Printing
01:05:22 Offset Printing and Timeline
01:09:17 Crowdfunding
01:12:51 Rising Tide on Manufacturing and Shipping
01:15:09 On Collaboration
01:18:29 Find Scott!

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