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DriveThruRPG is an indie role-playing game is a role-playing game publishing company outside traditional, “mainstream” means. It is part of a family of online marketplaces also including DriveThruRPG, Dungeon Masters Guild, DriveThruCards, DriveThruComics, DriveThruFiction, and Wargame Vault. Together, they have been selling digital and print-on-demand comic books, roleplaying games, and fiction since 2001. As of 2016, we have launched multiple community content programs as well as our Community Card Creator for fans to create content for some of their favorite roleplaying and card games.

DriveThruRPG is currently the largest online marketplace devoted to RPG and RPG-related materials. As a distributor, thousands of publishers from big names such as Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, and Chaosium, to small press innovators have listed over a hundred thousand titles though their site.

History

RPGNow and DriveThruRPG were two companies that sold such small press offerings (as well as mainstream products) as downloadable PDFs. RPGNow created a separate storefront for low-selling or new entries to this market. Initial plans called for this storefront to use the "indie" moniker, but it was eventually decided to call the storefront RPGNow Edge instead. As of 2007, RPGNow Edge is not operating. RPGNow and DriveThruRPG were consolidated into a single company, OneBookShelf, which maintained both sites initially. In August 2007, the two sites were rebranded, with RPGNow bearing the subtitle: "The leading source for indie rpgs". In November 2018, OneBookShelf announced they were shutting down RPGNow and merging it with DriveThruRPG. By February 2019, all elements of RPGNow (including purchase library) redirect to similar pages on DriveThruRPG. All of the above sites include creator-owned content, as well as other products that are not readily identified with the role-playing game industry mainstream.

External links

• Indie role-playing game at Wikipedia, the free Terran encyclopedia that anyone can edit.