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Do you have systems in place for community copies? How are PDF version updates handled?

While we need to update the documentation about community copies, that kind of thing is fully supported. You can have multiple pricing tiers, PWYW pricing, limited numbers for a particular tier, or anything else. Buyers will be notified of PDF updates, unless they opt out of those emails.

How about free community copies that replenish based on the number of copies sold? That has to be done manually on itchio

Reading your AI policy. If self-tagged AI content is demoted, why would an unscrupulous creator ever self-tag? If the penalty for getting caught is just an AI tag, why would the kind of creator who uses GenAI ever voluntarily tag?

They may not want to do it, but if it is discovered it will be done for them in a way they can't revert, and they will be warned. Doing it again can result in further action, like potentially being removed from the platform.

This seems like so much extra work when you could just say “no genai” and skip the step of creating negative incentives. What you describe here is the exact same level of policing that you’d have to do for a no genai policy.

Are you strictly going to be RPGs or are you open to stuff that's closely adjacent? (Specifically, the fact they'll allow us to sell LARPs and wargames is one of the main things that keeps some of us on Drivethru).

'LARP' and 'Wargame' are now both available in the Playstyle taxonomy. Are there any other options that would be a good fit to include alongside them, without getting hyper-specific?

With wargames, the more specific you can make the settings the better and that could help with RPGs as well. Generally, wargamers want to be able to browse by historical era plus stuff like "sci fi" and "historical". LARPs I would only worry about when there's more than two of us!

What's the procedure for requesting new systems added?

Find all the reasons to sell on RPG Trader here: rpg-trader.com/sell/

This looks really cool! You have a surprisingly permissive genAI policy though, only excluding "fully produced with AI and little to no human involvement." I would feel that a project that used many or even some generated text or images would violate the spirit of "handcrafted ttrpg content."

Fully generated AI content is excluded, and there's also required disclosure from authors for whether they used AI (and how they used it) with a saved opt-out filter when searching. I'd be interested to hear about how you feel this could be implemented differently - open to ideas and evolution!

what's the sustainability plan with such a small portion of proceeds going to the site even with POD? how much of that 20% goes to payment processors or lulu? i tried looking at prices through the calculator in-site and was only getting 401 messages. the site is very glitchy on firefox mobile

i'm also confused about the offensive language scanners. how would this impact reclaimed terminology like the recent "faggot games jam"?

also - what payment processor will you be using? i might've missed it, but didn't see that included. a lot of the problems folks have been having on other sites are payment processors censoring legal content. will you also be using stripe or paypal or are you using a smaller alternative?

Okay, so: What's your cut? How do you feel about people who are mostly or wholly dropping free stuff? What's your expected reaction to "A notorious jerkface has signed up to sell games through us"?

(Ooop, looks like 20% on the cut)

Do you handle mailing lists? Can sellers export theirs (I'm aware this is a fraught one)? Would "gay dudes passionately kissing" be deemed to be sexual content?