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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.

10/26/2004 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.

10/24/2004 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.

10/23/2004 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.

10/22/2004 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.

10/22/2004 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.

10/18/2004 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.

10/17/2004 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.

10/15/2004 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.

10/15/2004 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.

10/14/2004 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.

10/13/2004 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.

10/13/2004 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 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.

10/12/2004 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.

10/12/2004 oversoul01: Selling from you own website??
I am looking to start a website for directly sales to the public and I am trying to gather as much information as I can. Since several people here do…
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Participants: oversoul01, greyorm, bcook1971, efindel, Marco.

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.

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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.

11/5/2004 Jack Aidley: Best image formats for .pdf?
Hi there, The images for Great Ork Gods are (finally) getting done - but I'm unsure about what image formats I should be getting my brother to give them to…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, abzu, madelf, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Malak, dredd_funk, 16CBH.

11/5/2004 thelostgm: Website Help
Hey all. I am trying to find a web hosting company for a website I want to create for gamers in my home town. I would love some suggestions if…
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Participants: thelostgm, Clinton R. Nixon, Nathan P., Nathan, Mike Holmes, MisterPoppet, daMoose_Neo, indiedog.

11/8/2004 jdrakeh: Formless unleashed on unsuspecting public!
Well, not really (in my enthusiasm, I've been plugging it pretty hard). Here's the link... http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3682& I haven't seen the final product (and, lacking a private internet connection I can't…
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Participants: jdrakeh.

11/10/2004 GreedIsGod: Anyone Else Hate Intellectual Property?
My guess is probably 'No' for the same reason most union-members don't hate unions: Economic interest. Just the same I despise it. A common argument for IP in writer circles…
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Participants: GreedIsGod, Ron Edwards, Reimer Behrends, Malak, efindel, contracycle.

11/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Idea: Free to Non-Roleplayers
So I'm in the middle of writing this extremely long article on the origins and development of wuxia for my in-the-works progressive roleplaying journal, Push. And I was thinking, "How…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jack Aidley, Matt Snyder, timfire, ethan_greer, jdagna.

11/12/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] System as promo?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13352][Dungeons/Dummies] Draft 3 - The Assembled![/url] I was doing some planning for the upcoming cons when I started thinking about how I might promote my Dungeons/Dummies game. At the rate…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2004 clehrich: Intellectual Property -- Technical Adobe Question
Hi, I'm trying to add a Creative Commons distribution license to my PDF game, in Adobe Acrobat 5, and the instructions on the Creative Commons website do not match the…
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Participants: clehrich, Bob Goat.

11/15/2004 smokewolf: Comments please
Here is the most recent cover design for The Swing. What do ya think? http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover3_preview.jpg Also here are several past models... http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover1_preview.jpg http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover2_preview.jpg (one I am currently using)
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Participants: smokewolf, timfire, GregS, Bob Goat, abzu, Jasper, indiedog, Walt Freitag.

11/16/2004 GregS: Valherjar: Core Cover for Critique
Alright Gang, Time to throw myself on the mercy of the court. Suggestions and ego crushing comments are welcome. ;) The one thing I know about it already, though, is…
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Participants: GregS, indiedog, madelf, greedo1379, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, greyorm, tldenmark, Jack Aidley, timfire, matthijs, Cemendur.

11/16/2004 Kuma: Heads-Up for the No Press Anthology folks ...
I was just able to download the NPA from lulu.com for free. I don't know if this is something that you guys have set up for promo purposes (the POD…
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Participants: Kuma, abzu, greyorm.

11/17/2004 GregS: PDF Size and price. Yes, it's back...again...
Sorry folks, but I looked through all the topics and posts I could find and couldn't get an answer to this specific question: How big is too big for sources…
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Participants: GregS, Simon W, Jack Aidley, Vaxalon, madelf, Ed Cha, smokewolf, Brad Hindman.

11/17/2004 tldenmark: Best method to sell PDF's from your own website?
I've been working on a number of games, and hopefully will have at least one of them ready for Gen Con SoCal in December. I'll definitely have them ready for…
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Participants: tldenmark, Ron Edwards, jdagna.

11/19/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Personal Victory: Ken Hite Review
Since I've been a fan of Ken Hite's Out of the Box column for substantially longer than I've been a publisher, it's impossible to overestimate how psyched I am that…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Ben Lehman.

11/22/2004 Grand_Commander13: What makes an excellent layout?
Hello again everybody. My RPG is moving along at a nice pace; we're hoping to have it up for sale as early as the twelfth of December, as a matter…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, jdagna, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, Jonathan Walton, jerry.

11/22/2004 clehrich: RPG Prose Style exemplars
As most of you know, much of my professional work is, unfortunately, devoted to grading--I mean teaching writing, as in academic prose style. Not surprisingly, then, I have been working…
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Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rob MacDougall.

11/23/2004 daMoose_Neo: Kids, lisences, and RPGs
Hmmkay, I'm very excited about a new prospect. Tomorrow I'm going to be speaking with someone about giving an older property near and dear to my heart a game treatment,…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, clehrich, Jonathan Walton, madelf, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes, mindwanders.

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