Salaam! I’m Basheer Ghouse, a Muslim American freelance writer, cultural consultant, and indie RPG designer. This blog is going to host reviews, short essays, me talking about my current projects, and links to my work. You can find my work at on itch.io, drivethrurpg, dm’s guild, and published by companies including Wizards of the Coast; Paizo; Kobold Press; and Rowan, Rook and Deckard.
I am available for freelance writing, cultural consulting, and game design. Rates as below:
- .15$/word for setting development, game design, and other freelance writing
- .10$/word for monster statblocks
- 35$/hour for cultural consulting that does not require extensive research.
- 90$/hour for cultural consulting that requires extensive research.
Fear The Swarth 
Yes! Anime, please!
Hi: My name is Hans Messersmith, I am an Admin at RPGGeek (www.rpggeek.com). We have added your rulebook Bear Acquaintances (https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/312974/bear-acquaintances) and the game itself (https://rpggeek.com/rpg/62431/bear-acquaintances) into our database that tracks role-playing games, role-playing game designers, etc. We are in the process of adding more of your games.
It has occurred to us that the lovely calligraphy on the cover of your games (seen clearly on your itch.io page) is not the logo for the games themselves, but it might be your personal name. Is this so? If that is the case, we can move the image of that symbol to your designer page here: https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/103438/basheer-ghouse We could also make it the representative image for that page.
We want our database to be accurate, so please let me know how you would like that log to be handled. Typically, we use a logo for each game to represent that game, as can be see on the left side of this page:
https://rpggeek.com/browse/rpg
and the cover or first page of the game rulebook as the represtentative image of the book, as can be seen on the left side of this page:
https://rpggeek.com/browse/rpgitem
Hey! I’ll send an email shortly, but the calligraphy is a logo for all of my independent work. I don’t currently have individual logos for games. Feel free to use it for both, or to use the cover images from itch.io for individual games.
Thank you very much for your reply, and for your permission regarding the itch.io cover images. I think we will go ahead and use those for the individual games, and move the calligraphy to your designer page as a representative image for you as a designer. I wish you all the best!