FASA Star Trek Writing Side Game
(these rules can be used for other artistic expressions as well)
If a character has a 40 or higher in Writing or Creative Writing they can write books. Writing Skill is for non-fiction and Creative Writing is for fiction.
If they have the rating of 40 -59 they can write one book a year, 60-79 two, 80-89 three, 90-99 four.
A failed skill role means the book is un-publishable.
Roll to determine the sell rating:
1-10 – Best Seller
11-30 – Good Seller
31-60 – Modest Seller
61-00 – Poor Seller
Each Best seller increases the odds of having another Best Seller by 10%.
If you are using money in your campaign:
For a Best Seller a character receives 1,000,000 credits plus 50,000 credits per year for 8 years.
For a Good Seller a character receives 500,000 credits plus 25,000 per year for 4 years.
For a Modest Seller a character receives 100,000 credits plus 10,000 per year for 2 years.
For a Poor Seller a character receives 50,000 credits plus 5,000 per year for one year.