In all very genuine and honest earnestness if anyone out there is paying 25-30c/word (decent technical writer pay) for 10+K words of mechanical #ttrpg writing please let me know I want to work for them exclusively.

This is my wheelhouse. I am extremely good at it. I will write you the best rules you've ever read.

The general rub here is that I'm not sure anyone is paying that rate for assignments that large. Which some people might say is unnecessary, and they might be right. I'm putting that figure out there because that's about a month's worth of work

I could live for a month on $2500-3000.
A smaller assignment at the same rate is great! But $300 won't pay my living expenses. And especially not if that's the only opportunity I find at that rate this year.

When one receives pay for contract work is another chestnut entirely, though.