We’re Hiring an RPG Writer! (for a whole $25 a week)
Parlor, LLC is seeking a part-time, creative individual to become a part of our team. The job includes writing, setting development, plot creation, blogging, and social media posting.
Job Title: RPG Writer
Job Location: Online, headquartered in Austin, TX
Hours: At your discretion, ideally a few hours a week plus regular chats
Overview
First, this is not a hugely profitable job. We are looking for a person who can put in a few hours every week to help us work on our roleplaying games, Tephra: the Steampunk RPG and Retroscape. We are focusing most of our efforts on Retroscape right now. Read over the setting and mechanics. If you don’t immediately want to delve into the Retroscape setting and write for it, then please: do not apply for this job.
The ideal candidate is somebody who enjoys writing and developing RPGs. The candidate must be good at taking feedback and be willing to re-write everything when a good idea pops into their head. We revise and re-write very regularly, and we’re not afraid to scrap everything when something better comes along.
Most importantly: This is a hobby with a little bit of pay. Please make sure you see it that way.
Compensation & Benefits
- $25 a week
- For real, $25 every week. Paid monthly based on the number of Sundays in the month (normally $100 a month)
- Vacation Time: None! But you only have to work a couple hours a week, so it doesn’t matter much.
- Benefits: Hopefully friendship.
- If we successfully publish future products together, you will also receive either royalties or some form of bonus for completing the project. This is not guaranteed and will be discussed at time of publication.
Requirements
- Regularly available to chat via Discord, a chat program we use for most of our development. Most of us have the app on our phones as well as the computer.
- Able to either use or learn to use Google Drive and the Google Docs. We do all of our development in Google Docs, which allows us to easily comment, edit, and update our documents. Retroscape is currently done entirely in Google docs.
- In order to manage our task list, we also use Trello.
Responsibilities
- Capable of writing or brainstorming monsters, NPCs, sample characters, backgrounds, and full novel concepts
- Writing with tone and pizzazz in a post-apocalyptic 1920's-style setting
- Creating RPG Adventures that will engage players and are easy for narrator's to understand
- Writing the description text for a wide range of sci-fi items and abilities, including believable pseudo-science descriptions for how things may work
- Blog writing
- Developing a large and interconnected world with RPG-friendly intrigue
- May also learn some basic narrating and formatting capabilities
About Us
Parlor's mission is to be a process-centered game publishing organization that focuses on inspiring our customers, growing the market, and providing the best experience in the industry. Parlor began as Cracked Monocle back in 2007 with Tephra: the Steampunk RPG and became a limited liability company in 2015. Around that time, Daniel Burrow (proprietor) and Jake Paul began working on Retroscape, a science-fiction game with a 1920’s flair. Parlor’s goal is to put out a handful of really great products and inspire people to tell fantastic stories.
How to Apply
You made it this far and want to join us? Woohoo!
Email your resume and some writing samples to admin+writer@parlorgaming.com.
Don’t have a resume? No problem! Just send us this information:
- Your Name
- Why you want to write RPGs
- Your experience with either writing or RPGs
- Your education level or experience writing
- Any samples you can include (including school reports or random writing you made for fun)
