Kobold Guide to Game Design: How to Playtest and Publish

Game Design Secrets You Need to Know!

Get serious about your game design, with advice from professionals on all the major facets of design. This volume contains more than a dozen crucial essays to help you succeed in freelancing, playtest, and publication, including:

The Art of the Pitch
Challenging Players
Freelance Discipline, AKA Talent Won't Save You
How to Run a Playtest with Real Results
Design From the Bottom Up
What Playtest Teaches You
Mystery Adventures
Creating Play Depth
How NOT to Design a Magic Item
Fortunate Accidents
How to Make Your Design Matter
How to Sell Designs and Influence Editors

This 96-page collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of OPEN DESIGN—is now available to the public for the first time. Improve your design -- and your odds of publication -- today!