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5/14/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Two Metaphors for Indie RPGs / d20
[b]Metaphor #1: Pop Music[/b] Now that the '90s are safely dead, we can say that there were two important movements in pop music that decade: indie rock and DJ culture.…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, greyorm, Halzebier, GreatWolf, daMoose_Neo, John Kim, Dev.

5/13/2004 Palaskar: Paging Clinton R. Nixon!
Clinton, how can I publish my RPG via the Forge Bookshelf? --Michael Mendoza
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Participants: Palaskar, xiombarg, Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson.

5/12/2004 xiombarg: color print-on-demand
Well, it seems that booklocker can do color POD printing. It's pricer than rpgmall.com or lulu.com, but it might lower the barrier for people who want to do a full-color…
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Participants: xiombarg, hardcoremoose, madelf, Paul Czege, talysman.

5/11/2004 Matt Snyder: Is the Forge a hit parade?
In his reply in the Hubris, the Sequel thread in Site News, the Ayatollah of Rock n Roll-ah (aka Dav Harnish), said the following: The Forge talks a damn good…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Dav, abzu, Paganini, Michael S. Miller, Jürgen Mayer, andy, GB Steve.

5/11/2004 KeithBVaughn: A Few Thoughts...
To the Group, The premise of the "What does a Gamer Need," caused me to do some asking of further questions and I came up with some questions that led…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Latigo.

5/10/2004 Matt Gwinn: RPGs in Toy Stores
I was first introduced to roleplaying about 20 years ago. I was in the toy store browsing and I found a rack of D&D stuff. I didn't know what they…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, madelf, xiombarg, Jack Spencer Jr, b_bankhead, timfire, greedo1379, contracycle.

5/6/2004 Drifter Bob: Spell naming contest
Pelgrane Press is having a spell-naming contest, to rename D&D spells in the Dying Earth style. First prize is a copy of the Dying Earth game signed by Robin Laws…
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Participants: Drifter Bob.

5/5/2004 Matt Snyder: What do gamers need?
In the Supplement Treadmill and spawned thread "D&D specifically," I asked the Forge what gamers need: That begs a question in my mind. What do d20 gamers need? For that…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Christopher Kubasik, Jack Spencer Jr, daMoose_Neo, Bankuei, Matt, Sean, Christopher Weeks, smokewolf, madelf, Loki, quozl, Bob Goat, John Kim, xiombarg, semprebon, Storn, talysman, Valamir, Tav_Behemoth, mearls, greedo1379, MarktheAnimator, komradebob, Jonathan Walton.

5/5/2004 mearls: D&D specifically (split from Supplement Treadmill)
[quote="Ron Edwards"]All three represent a brief correspondence of role-playing material with a wave of "teen craze" purchasing. That's distinct from fan purchasing or anything else associated with SF or pop…
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Participants: mearls, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Jürgen Mayer, xiombarg, Alex Johnson, Tav_Behemoth, ryand, Bankuei.

5/3/2004 Matt Wilson: relocating a business to a different state
So at the end of July I'll be moving from Seattle to Milwaukee. I've already registered a sole proprietorship with King County and the city of Seattle. Anyone know where…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, semprebon.

5/3/2004 Pramas: Some Parting Thoughts
When I started posting here at the Forge, I thought people might appreciate my POV. I've been working in the game industry for 11 years professionally, and in that time…
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Participants: Pramas, John Kim, Dav, Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer, Bankuei, Ravien, Storn, semprebon, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2004 apeiron: Published Your CCG?
@ Have any of you published your Collectible Card Game? If you have please share your war stories here. i've been working on one for ages and i'd really like…
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Participants: apeiron, daMoose_Neo.

5/1/2004 Ravien: Flawed Marketing Strategy?
Ok, right off the bat I will state that I am no businessman, and have no knowledge of business practises. I don't know how to take advantage of "three-tiered marketing",…
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Participants: Ravien, Jack Aidley, daMoose_Neo, Zak Arntson, Sean, smokewolf, abzu.

4/29/2004 ethan_greer: RPGNow: Why or why not?
Poking around RPGNow, I've noticed that some Forge folks sell pdf downloads from there, while others don't. This is a request for end-user info about the service from those who…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Matt.

4/29/2004 semprebon: PDF prices [split from older thread]
[quote="greyorm"]People naturally tend to believe something with a higher price is "better" than something with a lower price. "Cheap price" translates to "poor quality" in our societal subconscious, and we…
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Participants: semprebon, Ron Edwards, Ravien, Lxndr, Jack Aidley, Valamir, cognizantchance.

4/29/2004 ecliptic: Legality of using free fonts?
I was wonder what is the legality in using freeware fonts in a product that you sell?
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Participants: ecliptic, Jack Aidley, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat.

4/28/2004 xiombarg: the "supplement treadmill"
Malcolm (eyebeams), as a freelancer for White Wolf (he can correct me if that's an incorrect way to refer to him in this context), made and interesting comment on another…
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Participants: xiombarg, Pramas, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, FFG Greg, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, quozl, Erick Wujcik, ethan_greer, mearls, Lxndr, ryand, Paul Czege, Matt.

4/28/2004 andy: PDF pricing
Help-- I'm getting ready to put my first indie effort out on RPGNow. It will be a new game system (The BONES thread in the Forge explains it in detail)…
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Participants: andy, Jack Aidley.

4/28/2004 xiombarg: customer fraud and e-publishing
I thought the following link might be of interest to y'all: When Your Customer Commits Fraud In essence, it goes over your rights, as a writer, regarding your customers, when…
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Participants: xiombarg, Dev, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2004 Erick Wujcik: Credit Union/Co-op Banking
Since there was a thread about starting a business, I thought I'd offer some advice on banking. I'll start with a post from a previous thread, "Starting a "Legal Company",…
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Participants: Erick Wujcik.

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5/16/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Striking Out On My Won -- Again
Well, I've been in a corproate publishing envrionemnt for about four months now since others have taken over Seraphim Guard and there have been a lot of phiolosphical differences betweem…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Simon W, talysman, Ron Edwards, madelf, daMoose_Neo, Bob Goat.

5/18/2004 abzu: The Price was Right (Come on...er... Up?)
My aim for this thread is to chronicle some interesting developments in the "product" that is Burning Wheel. Not the game, but the thing sold from websites and stores. The…
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Participants: abzu, Trevis Martin, Dev, Jack Aidley, Michael S. Miller, Matt, Valamir, ethan_greer, quozl, Sean, Andrew Morris, taepoong, Bankuei, jdagna, LordSmerf, John Burdick, ryand, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Jack Spencer Jr, madelf, Christopher Weeks, Rorimack, MarktheAnimator, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Pricing PDF product (split)
Since we're on the subject of prince, I'm looking at a 24-30 page PDF for my new company in the near ftuture. Would $5 be too much to charge? Also,…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, Roy.

5/19/2004 Valamir: Full time game designers
In this thread When you underprice your product vs. what the market would pay and is paying for similar works, you're hurting everyone who is making those other works…
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Participants: Valamir, John Burdick, Dev, daMoose_Neo, wakingjohn, mearls, contracycle, Jack Aidley, abzu, Bankuei, Dav, John Kim, ryand, Ron Edwards, Sean, Olibarro, Andrew Morris.

5/20/2004 daMoose_Neo: Distributor questions - quick answer appreciated
I'm working out an arrangement with a distributor and I'm fairly unfamiliar with the actual, inner workings of it. What kind of arrangements have you had now/in the past? What…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, jdagna, smokewolf.

5/20/2004 xiombarg: timing of new releases
I'm curious what people think of the ideas in this blog entry: http://gamethink.blogspot.com/2004/05/publishing-schedules-picking-right.html Personally, I think the power of buzz cannot be underestimated, but it's worth noting that buzz is…
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Participants: xiombarg.

5/22/2004 Space Cowboy: Changes at RPG.net?
Hey all, Just a quick question- have there been any recent changes over at RPG.net? I'm curious since I can no longer log in without reducing my browser's security level…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Ron Edwards.

5/24/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine
The premier issue of GQM is out, a companion magazine for the retailer's bible Games Quarterly Catalog. Its primarily full of advertisements aimed at retailers but there are a number…
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Participants: Valamir, Matt Snyder, daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski.

5/24/2004 Astrivian: Supplemental info Online
I was just curious if anyone has either used or desired to use goofy online apendices to an rpg? I suppose (just brainstorming here) there are several categories of what…
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Participants: Astrivian.

5/26/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Quark Advice
I recentl redicosvered a copy of Quark XPress 5.0 from my previous installation of Windows. Now that I've loaded it again, I seem to be gradually trying to figure out…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, abzu, jdagna, Bob Goat.

5/26/2004 WyldKarde: How do I publish my RPG?
When I joined the Forge, I largely wanted to flesh out the RPG designs that I made while I was bored off my ass at Ft. Huachuca. I considered myself…
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Participants: WyldKarde, Matt, abzu, Dev, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Valamir, Michael S. Miller, Lxndr, Ravien, timfire, LoreTG, Juicetyger.

5/27/2004 abzu: Diana Jones Awards
http://www.dianajonesaward.org/moreinformation.htm The Diana Jones Award is designed to reward any combination of achievement, innovation, and anything that has benefited or advanced the hobby and industry as a whole; or…
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Participants: abzu.

5/28/2004 Dumirik: Lots o' games
Ok. I have a game that when I finish I want to publish commercially. It is fairly short and rules lite, but I plan to have a fair amount of…
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Participants: Dumirik, Ron Edwards, abzu, Valamir, smokewolf.

5/30/2004 abzu: NPA Pricing and Distribution
The No Press RPG Anthology is moving into its final stages. The last bits needed are: Cover design (which I am working on), Introduction by cool/famous person (which I'm not…
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Participants: abzu, iambenlehman, Michael S. Miller, xiombarg, Lxndr, Jeph, Matt.

5/31/2004 Bunsen: When is it plagarism
Okay, working on releasing my own RPG system and Campaign World and I was wondering what WOTC had copyright on. My friend is saying they have the rights on using…
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Participants: Bunsen, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, timfire, madelf, Jack Spencer Jr, daMoose_Neo, greyorm, Paganini, Space Cowboy, Loki, John Kirk, Erick Wujcik, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, efindel, Tav_Behemoth, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2004 Andy Kitkowski: The 2003 Indie RPG Awards: Now Live!
Hey all- Andy here with the Indie RPG Awards. Before I slap my 9 inches of PR on the table, I just had a few additional comments for the Forge…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, ethan_greer, Jürgen Mayer.

6/1/2004 xiombarg: layout tips
Two things... 1) Can anyone point me to a good resource, either here or elsewhere, on doing layout? I'm not talking about a free course telling you everything you need…
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Participants: xiombarg, Clay, C. Edwards, Bob Goat, Weisshaupt.

6/3/2004 John Kirk: Royalties
I was recently contacted by a startup company that is interested in developing a video game based on my game Legendary Quest. They are wanting to use the spells, classes,…
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Participants: John Kirk, jdagna, ryand, Valamir.

6/4/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine Ads
Hey folks. Issue #2 of GQM is due out in time for GenCon. It is scheduled to include a column by Peter Adkison featuring (at least in part) the Forge…
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Participants: Valamir, Paul Czege, abzu, Matt Snyder, Christopher Weeks, Tobias.

6/4/2004 abzu: NPA Cover first draft
http://www.burningwheel.org/pdf/npacover_scrnps.pdf Hi folks, I've posted a low low res pdf of the npa cover. let me know what you think. -L
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Participants: abzu, Matt Snyder, Christopher Weeks, Jack Spencer Jr, madelf, quozl, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Jeph, xiombarg, Michael S. Miller, Andy Kitkowski, timfire, Andrew Morris, Jack Aidley, Dumirik, John Harper, Bob McNamee, LordSmerf, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer, C. Edwards, Ben Lehman, Lxndr.

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