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12/13/2004 Doehring: lulu
I would check lulu.com they seem to be the cheapest I have seen and there was a post here on the forge but it was difficult to realise what it…
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Participants: Doehring, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2004 tldenmark: Opinions on Lulu vs. CafePress?
I've used cafe press quite a bit for making my convention books. Particularly for small b&w art books to sell at cons. I've also recently used it for the new…
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Participants: tldenmark, Eero Tuovinen, Marco, Bardsandsages.

12/11/2004 jc_madden: Publishing questions
If anyone here has self published or gone through publishing houses or POD websites like RPG I'd like some imput on your from your experience. For me it's not "about…
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Participants: jc_madden, MisterPoppet, Jasper, smokewolf, Troy_Costisick, Grand_Commander13, jerry, kushinagi, timfire, Polaris.

12/10/2004 jknevitt: The "Ransom" Model of Distribution
Greg Stolze talks about his new distribution model here. I personally love the idea. If I felt I could muster up enough support for Tribe, Pyongyang or RUN, I'd give…
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Participants: jknevitt, Nathan P..

12/9/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: The world (of rights) is a complicated place
I had a long talk with a new friend tonight, and the topic of independent games and rights came up. This may sound strange coming from a Forge admin, but…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, abzu, Bob Goat, madelf, Tav_Behemoth, jdagna, Ben Lehman, Blankshield, greedo1379, clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, GB Steve, greyorm, daMoose_Neo.

12/9/2004 Tav_Behemoth: WotC Market Research: Four Million D&D Players in 2004
I thought this post by Charles Ryan, the brand manager of D&D at Wizards of the Coast, might be of interest to folks here: specifically the estimate that the number…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, abzu, jdagna, Vaxalon, Jack Aidley, rpghost, GaryTP, daMoose_Neo, tymotzues.

12/8/2004 Christopher Kubasik: PDF Games? Aren't those like that Internet-thingee?
Hi. Over in the Actual Play review of GenCon SoCal, there are reports (still!) of piss fights over what constitutes a "real" company vs. a "vanity" set up. If you…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, ethan_greer, TonyLB, Matt Wilson, jdagna, Tav_Behemoth, clehrich, Clinton R. Nixon, daMoose_Neo, Bankuei.

12/8/2004 gobi: Meatbot Massacre and the Ransom Model
This doesn't pertain to RPGs specifically, but it's still a gaming-related online publication with an experimental distribution model, so I figured I'd give everyone a head's up on it. (And…
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Participants: gobi, Jasper, inky, Vaxalon, ethan_greer, Tav_Behemoth, GregStolze, Valamir, Malak, Mike Holmes, Nathan, Noon, GaryTP, contracycle.

12/4/2004 jknevitt: Indie Publishing! Aieee!
Let's assume for the time being I've got an indie system (like everyone else here) that's in the alpha stage that I want to publish (like everyone else here). So,…
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Participants: jknevitt, Trevis Martin, timfire.

12/3/2004 J B Bell: The Shadow of Yesterday's Open Source Publishing Adventure
Heya, Clint, You mentioned on these boards that TSOY was something of an adventure in using 100% open source tools. I haven't been able to search up much more about…
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Participants: J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Dev, Tav_Behemoth.

12/3/2004 Blankshield: Use of quotes
I have some ideal quotes that I want to add to Death's Door, but they ain't mine to use. I have some queries as to fair use and attribution before…
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Participants: Blankshield, clehrich, LordSmerf, Paul Czege.

12/2/2004 Ed Cha: We've officially launched Indie Press Revolution!
This is big, exciting news for the RPG creator-publisher. We're going to have banner ads on EN World and RPG.net up soon and start promoting the site. Details in this…
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Participants: Ed Cha.

12/2/2004 Dregg: Ads for the Forge
Hello, I'm about to do layout for my first self publsihed work "Pulp Era: Cinematic Adventures in the Yesteryear" and I would like to put a ad in the back…
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Participants: Dregg, Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, abzu.

12/2/2004 leegarv: Tales From The Floating Vagabond looking for new home
Hi, Lee Garvin here. Please forgive me if this post is innapropriate for the list, I'm just trying to get the message out. I'm dropping this announcement in here because…
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Participants: leegarv, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/2/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Indie RPG Awards for 2004: One Month Left to Publish!
Just wanted to throw this out there to the folks who are working to get their final bits of PDF and print material together. The third (and last for me,…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jonathan Walton, jdagna, chadu, daMoose_Neo.

11/29/2004 smokewolf: The Swing is 1 year old
The Swing will be 1 year old in December. It spent 2 years in development and I can not tell you what the last 3 years have been like for…
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Participants: smokewolf, Jasper, jknevitt.

11/24/2004 MarktheAnimator: How to promote your online forum?
Hello, I've made an online forum for my game, Fantasy Imperium. http://fantasyimperium.com/phpBB2/index.php I was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas for how to promote an online forum? What…
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Participants: MarktheAnimator, jdagna, Grand_Commander13.

11/23/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Free PDF when you buy the print edition
I just saw that Gary and Goldleaf Games is offering a complimentary PDF of Code of Unaris to anyone who's purchased the print edition. Behemoth3's done the same with the…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Ron Edwards, GaryTP, Mike Holmes, urbwar, Nathan P..

11/23/2004 Simon W: It's a Dog's Life (as a book/movie?)
In the week before It's a Dog's Life went on sale at RPGNow, I ran two last playtest sessions with two completely different groups of players. One group is largely…
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Participants: Simon W, Ron Edwards.

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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12/13/2004 Doehring: Role Playing
Personally I play D&D and when I agree it is not the best system the world itself has more resources than any other out there. The game is a giant…
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Post it
If your hate mail is not to graphic post it it would be intresting to see what that person said and how they supported there idea.
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Middle Class?
Well I have never seen any results my self however I would have to say from the term middle-class in sociology most who play RPG's are not. An average of…
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Participants: Doehring, Tav_Behemoth, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Cover for critique
Finally finished the draft cover for Capes (barring a few little additions and modifications I know still need to be done in the title-bar). And I am now absolutely too…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Tobias, timfire, GaryTP, Andrew Morris, John Harper, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, Jack Aidley.

12/13/2004 Doehring: main stream
If you look there have been a few main stream books that have published in smaller formates than 8.5 by 11. Those books from my knolege include a form a…
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Adds
Yes design does matter as well as profeshionalism. If you cover lookes like a cartoon you will appeal to that type of audience. Even the adults that usually like anime…
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Participants: Doehring, Clinton R. Nixon, GaryTP, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Patent
I was woundering if anyone else has knoledge in this but I herd that it is possible to patent ideas enfact I do believe the system for the CCG Magic…
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Participants: Doehring, Angaros, GaryTP, jdagna, caio_maximino, daMoose_Neo, madelf, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2004 Vaxalon: What do you think, scam?
I got this email tonight: Seasons Greetings Noble Adventurer! I was exploring cyberspace and came across your ad at one website for gamers. (That is where I got your…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, jc_madden, MisterPoppet, smokewolf, twiztidsoul0512.

12/14/2004 Simon W: Dreamscape Cover Art
Andrew (Navaro) has now finished the cool cover art for Dreamscape - (originally a 24-Hour rpg entry). here Simon W http://www.geocities.com/dogs_life2003/
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Participants: Simon W, matthijs, Andrew Navaro, Bob Goat, TonyLB, ejh.

12/14/2004 Eero Tuovinen: The Book Shipment to Finland
This is just to let everybody know that the latest shipment of books came here complete and in good condition. A listing of the innards: 12 Questing Beast, The 12…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

12/14/2004 Kesher: Shelf space in Minnesota
Howdy. One of the local gaming stores near Minneapolis, The Source Comics and Games, seems to be expanding their indie game stock (or maybe I've just gotten better at recognizing…
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Participants: Kesher, Jared A. Sorensen, greedo1379.

12/15/2004 jknevitt: [RUN] Cover for Critique
Here's the first version of the cover for RUN: a game of artificial intelligence. I'm a little concerned it's a bit too dark, but I'd like to hear what people…
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Participants: jknevitt, NN, greedo1379, Troy_Costisick, Rossum, Jack Aidley, Matt, MisterPoppet, Andrew Morris, Paul Czege, Kensan_Oni, jdagna, Nathan P., Noon, Keith Perhac, santo147.

12/16/2004 madelf: Strategy of Copyleft?
In this thread... http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13676 ... I posted my current personal views of the flaws inherent in copyleft licenses and asked for a convincing argument in the hopes of learning more…
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Participants: madelf, contracycle, Roger, GaryTP, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell, joshua neff, timfire, ryand, Brendan.

12/16/2004 abzu: Express Media Bad Experience
I know lots of folks here use Express Media to print their games. I used them to print the NPA. I have never had a worse experience with a vendor…
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Participants: abzu, Bob Goat, daMoose_Neo, jdagna, Adam.

12/16/2004 jdagna: PDF Publishing Strategy: Looking for Advice
Hey all, I've been a little disappointed by the presales of my latest supplement, which isn't even back from the printer yet, but isn't generating the level of interest from…
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Participants: jdagna, philreed, madelf, GMSkarka.

12/20/2004 clehrich: Setting up a Wiki Game
Hi gang, I'm looking for advice. Bear in mind that I live in the stone age, when we still used pencil and paper, so I'm a little clueless. I have…
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Participants: clehrich, Dev, Trevis Martin, Brendan, daMoose_Neo.

12/21/2004 GregS: Valherjar: The Over-due Lovechild
I just wanted to take a minute and thank everyone again for all their help over the last few months. As of yesterday afternoon Valherjar: The Chosen Slain officially hit…
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Participants: GregS, greyorm, urbwar, Dev.

12/23/2004 GregS: Help with Graphics
Greetings all, I'm having a rather unusual graphics issue and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out why. On my cover art (both on the book and on my…
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Participants: GregS, greyorm, abzu, Chris Passeno.

12/26/2004 philreed: Update on life as a PDF publisher . . .
A little over six months ago I shared some of the reasons for taking the plunge into PDF publishing as my full-time job. I thought some of you might like…
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Participants: philreed, Paul Czege, Vaxalon, xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski, Lxndr, Brendan, Solly Brown, Tav_Behemoth.

12/27/2004 rpghost: One Retailer Loactor to rule them all...
Greetings, We are happy to inform you of a great new FREE service (really!) from RPGHost Networks. We have developed a free centralized STORE LOCATOR that you may place on…
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Participants: rpghost.

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