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10/12/2004 Eero Tuovinen: IGC book?
I'm asking this in public, mainly so that those who haven't yet asked get the answer all at once. So, what's the status of the Iron Game Chef book Dav…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greyorm.

10/12/2004 Simon W: Get yourself a good editor
It's a Dog's Life has been reviewed. I'm delighted with the review. I was sure I didn't edit it that badly, but perhaps being so close to it means you…
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Participants: Simon W, daMoose_Neo, Matt, clehrich.

10/12/2004 Matt Wilson: merchant alternatives to Paypal
Ever since I started selling Primetime Adventures I've had problems with Paypal. Over the last few days I've been unable to even access my account. As far as I can…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, M Jason Parent, Valamir, jdagna, Matt Snyder, Blankshield, Clay, indiedog.

10/7/2004 Jasper: Watching your readers
Spawned from the thread on web-based presentation of game texts. In web-page design (and elsewhere) there's always the desire to watch someone while they're using a page to see how…
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Participants: Jasper, Matt, jdagna, abzu, Ed Cha.

10/7/2004 ejh: Stealing Your Rules! What do you think?
I understand that you cannot copyright game rules as such, only the particular written expressions thereof. But I'm thinking about courtesy and respect, not the law. I have a bee…
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Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, Vaxalon, madelf, greyorm, Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, Tav_Behemoth, woodelf.

10/6/2004 Jasper: Alternate (web-based) Presentations of Game Texts
I was just musing about alternate ways to present a game text. I'm working towards POD with my own project, Graal, so I've been thinking about book size and that…
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Participants: Jasper, jerry, Bob Goat, Walt Freitag, Tav_Behemoth, ivan23.

10/6/2004 Matt Wilson: shipping and packaging recommendations?
So it looks like I'll have the books in a day or two, and I need to figure out the best way to ship 'em. Mostly I'm concerned with packaging…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Malak, GregS, jdagna, abzu, Paul Czege.

10/5/2004 Yokiboy: Shopping for Indie RPGs
Hello, This might be the wrong forum for this topic, but I'm having a hard time purchasing the many indie RPGs that I want to add to my collection. Is…
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Participants: Yokiboy, LordSmerf, Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, inthisstyle, Ed Cha, woodelf.

10/2/2004 oversoul01: Ebay
My wife and I were recently dicussing possible venues for my games. RPGNow.com, my own download site, etc. She then mentioned Ebay. I had never thought of this, but alot…
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Participants: oversoul01, daMoose_Neo, M Jason Parent, jdagna, abzu, mindwanders.

9/30/2004 Thunder_God: Printing "Double page" PDFs.
How do I properly print PDFs like Burning Wheel, where in each page we have two smaller than A4 pages are contained? Right now I have to squint and the…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Vaxalon, abzu, Paul Czege, 16CBH.

9/30/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Twilight] New pack concept - "Modular"!
My biggest concern with Twilight has been "With this being a customizable/collectable card game, will I be able to recoup enough costs fast enough to produce the boosters to fuel…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Valamir, Chris Passeno.

9/30/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Wanted: an indepeent appraisal
I tend to make my publishing decisions for creative reasons rather than due to cold hard marketing. I don;t have access to any research data at all. And now this…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards.

9/30/2004 Dauntless: Reverse OGL: Marketing gimmick
I'm not sure if this belongs in Publishing or not.... Okay, how stupid is this? Instead of getting people to buy into your system by charging for the rules but…
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Participants: Dauntless, Nazzi, Ron Edwards, jerry, Valamir, greyorm, madelf.

9/30/2004 GregS: PDF Publishing: Borders or no borders?
As I'm laying out my first PDF I'm hit with what might be a significant question: do you include borders (artistic, flashy types) on sellable PDFs? The pro is that…
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Participants: GregS, M Jason Parent, Paul Czege, jgbrowning, Andrew Martin, Matt Wilson, TheLe, Edward Kann.

9/29/2004 GregS: PDF Marketing
So, I'm adapting to the whole PDF infiltration marketing model but I'm stuck on a quandery that, to my knowledge, has really never been addressed on the Forge. What have…
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Participants: GregS, Nathan, LordSmerf, rpghost, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, efindel, Rorimack.

9/29/2004 Nathan: CreationCrash.Com News?
Well, PhilReed posted this over at RPG.Net in a post. I don't know what it means, but I suppose it does mean one less pdf online store. Over the…
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Participants: Nathan, rpghost, madelf, Ron Edwards, philreed.

9/29/2004 abzu: Silven.com Reviews many of our games
Game Reviews http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=417 A discussion of our booth this year: http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=419 And an interview with Alexander Cherry! http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=414 A review of The Swing: http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=408 And an interview with Keith Taylor:…
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Participants: abzu.

9/29/2004 Adorame: Going All Out
Ok, You've saved enough money, met the right industry people, have a product that has offerings unique and desirable to a global market and want to take your game to…
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Participants: Adorame, GregS, Ron Edwards, Nathan, madelf, Valamir, Matt Wilson.

9/28/2004 abzu: First Review of the NPA
http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=416 In fact, I’ll go as far to say that this is a book that should belong on any RPG fan’s shelves. It will open your eyes up to what…
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Participants: abzu, Ben Lehman, Matt, Ron Edwards.

9/27/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Bad news from RPGNow
It appears the entry level to the RPG market has closed for good. http://www.RPGNow.com/NewRates.pdf http://www.RPGNow.com/ProductsSTD.pdf If these rules hadc been in effect when i got started I would never have…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jonathan Walton, Jack Aidley, Vaxalon, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, John Uckele, Nathan, Andy Kitkowski, TheLe, greyorm, andy, timfire, Lxndr, ChefKyle, GMSkarka, Clinton R. Nixon, Asrogoth, rpghost, Ron Edwards, M Jason Parent.

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10/12/2004 Green: Creating quick-start scenarios
It was once suggested to me in another thread that I make sample scenarios that really highlight my game Kathanaksaya. I tried thinking of one, but I never got very…
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Participants: Green, timfire, GregS, LordSmerf.

10/13/2004 worldeater: Feasibility of modules with "some assembly required&quo
Greetings, I've been tossing around the idea of writing modules/adventures which required the GM to do some work before the game begins (as opposed to the typical one which is…
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Participants: worldeater, Ron Edwards, jdagna, epweissengruber, Ed Cha.

10/13/2004 woodelf: POD size formats
Well, did some poking around, and if this has been answered, i'm not finding it (i'm still working my way through the Lulu vs. Everyone Else thread). What are my…
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Participants: woodelf, Jasper.

10/13/2004 woodelf: Re: How protective are you of your game ideas?
[quote="Matt Wilson"] But that doesn't mean you won't get really irked. How much "borrowing" goes on among designers? [/quote] Well, since the vast majority of commercially-visible RPGs are all the…
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Participants: woodelf, Ron Edwards.

10/14/2004 woodelf: d20/not d20 (split)
[quote="JSDiamond"]A better question would be "Wherein has it worked better?" But that sounds too much like flamebait so... The first example that comes to my mind is Deadlands. IMO it…
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Participants: woodelf, Ron Edwards, efindel, Vaxalon.

10/15/2004 Andy Kitkowski: [A Thought] On Paying Playtesters to Playtest your game
This is a topic/idea that I often see floating around here and RPGNet. You're almost finished (or in the middle of) designing your game. You troll around for feedback, but…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, jdagna, Dev, Solly Brown, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Wilper, grimnr.

10/15/2004 Paul Czege: someone with an ISBN needs to do this
Google is apparently testing a new search product that works like Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book." From what I can tell, publishers send books to Google for scanning and…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Bob Goat.

10/17/2004 Solly Brown: Dog Town Demo
Hi Guys I've just put up the Dog Town Lite Demo a 33 page pdf on the company's new site to promote the November launch on rpgnow of the Dog…
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Participants: Solly Brown.

10/18/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Magnum Opus] GoO offer...hmm
I brought up the one topic about BESM d20 and here is another: GoO Magnum Opus. I just found about this and am trying to do some digging around on…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski.

10/22/2004 jdrakeh: [Update] Formless
First, Formless has been signed over to Politically Incorrect Games who have plans to support it with a free release in the near future (exact dates as yet unknown). Where…
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Participants: jdrakeh.

10/22/2004 zaltar: Possible translation of EndLand
EndLand is a post-atomical german rpg formerly commercial become free. Unluckly the manual, a masterpiece of graphical design, is actually only in german. Will be translated in English by some…
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Participants: zaltar, greyorm.

10/23/2004 Strutinan: Hello from DaemonEye!
Hello, my friend Tristan told me about this site (he's the guy writing "The Gray"). I own a very small independant RPG company called DaemonEye Publishing. Amoung our 3.0/3.5 psionics…
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Participants: Strutinan.

10/24/2004 Clay: Scribus, or beating dead horses
Over a year ago the Linux DTP package Scribus was mentioned in these fora as a tool not ready for prime time. In that year Scribus has come a long…
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Participants: Clay, efindel, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/26/2004 Ron Edwards: [Arc Dream Publishing] Wow!
I have just been the recipient of the single most admirable (financial) act I've ever witnessed or heard of in role-playing publishing. Over a year ago, one of the companies…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, indiedog, Widener, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege, jdagna, Jonathan Walton, Alex Jurkat, Shane Ivey.

10/26/2004 The_Confessor: Free PDF Programs
I'm sure you guys get this all the time, but: I'm working on a sci-fi rpg that I'm planning on releasing for free, but I'd like it to look as…
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Participants: The_Confessor, Simon W, timfire, seasong.

10/27/2004 timfire: Repeating yourself?
Hi y'all, One of the things I'm trying to do with MW is edit/layout the text in such a way that all relevent information on a given topic is present…
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Participants: timfire, TonyLB, inthisstyle, Jasper, Jack Aidley, Ben Lehman, daMoose_Neo, jdagna.

10/28/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Help w/ Promotional Take-Away
Hi y'all, Clinton has graciously offered to demo MW for me at GenCon SoCal. But in addition to the demo, I was hoping to provide some sort of promotional piece…
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Participants: timfire, daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski, GregS, Roy, Ed Cha, greedo1379.

11/1/2004 Bob Goat: Promotion, Promotion, Promotion
Hey Folks, Outside of GenCon, my sales of CoS have pretty much been non-existant and I am at a loss at what to do to get things going. I was…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Yokiboy, Ed Cha, anonymouse, jdagna, daMoose_Neo, Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, GregS, abzu, smokewolf, Vincent R. Venturella, urbwar, James Holloway, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Ria, Eero Tuovinen.

11/2/2004 Simon W: preview It's a Dog's Life 2nd Edition cover art
This is not yet complete, but it is a preview of the new edition cover art http://www.geocities.com/dogs_life2003/preview.jpg The snake will be a rattler in the finished version (the artist had…
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Participants: Simon W, Paul Czege.

11/4/2004 smokewolf: Question about blank page?
Alright guys, I am about finished with my latest editted copy of The Swing. My formatting starts every chapter on the left hand page and that page is a chapter…
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Participants: smokewolf, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, daMoose_Neo, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, Chris Passeno, madelf, abzu, Michael S. Miller.

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