Le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose.
I was lucky; working for Dave Arneson was wonderful, not horrible, because Adventure Games was a small company of eight or ten people.
Unfortunately, history has now shown that Dave started up AG just as the D&D bubble burst and took most of the money in gaming with it.
And yeah, freelance game writing sucks Jabba the Hutt's dick; the reason I haven't written any game shit isn't that I can't, but I have much better things to do with my time, like build railroad models.
You can get a penny to a penny and a half a word from Textbroker for writing web ads for diet supplements and boner pills.