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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 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 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.

12/13/2004 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.

12/13/2004 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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 daMoose_Neo: [Final Twilight]Grand Experiment- PDF CG
Hmmkay, discussion in Theroy over CCGs and RPGs sparked a old idea in me brain and I dug out the notes and samples from it. After some more work aligning…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Andrew Morris, greyorm, twiztidsoul0512.

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.

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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.

1/1/2005 JimLotFP: Is this a good or foolish idea in presenting a new game?
LotFP: RPG playtesting is going slowly. None of the people who have contacted me about playtesting seem to have actually tried playing the game as of yet, and I feel…
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Participants: JimLotFP, Michael S. Miller, daMoose_Neo, Bankuei, GregS, Vaxalon, jdagna, KeithBVaughn, abzu, GaryTP.

1/1/2005 Michael S. Miller: New Year's Resolution: Promoting the NPA
Last year at this time, many of us anxiously awaited being published in the NoPress Anthology. It was going to be this great, new, groundbreaking thing to shake things up.…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Jeph, abzu, Matt, xiombarg.

1/2/2005 Mystique: Wanted: Indie Game Designer looking for partnership!
First: The Introductions... My name is Mike Clifford, and I am president of a small, independent RPG publishing company, Mystique Enterprises. We have released one D20 supplement (which continues to…
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Participants: Mystique, TonyLB, greyorm, daMoose_Neo, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

1/3/2005 Jared A. Sorensen: [Advice] Media packs -- create them!
Folks, If you're going to sell your game online, please do the following: INCLUDE AN IMAGE OF THE BOOK'S DAMN COVER ON YOUR WEBSITE! Ideally, you should have a directory…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, jdagna.

1/3/2005 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Back cover text
What does everyone think of this text for the back cover of The Mountain Witch? I've had a hard time distilling the general premise of the game down to a…
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Participants: timfire, jdagna, Bob Goat, Paul Czege, inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen, Rorimack, daMoose_Neo, GregS, Andrew Morris.

1/5/2005 Polgarus_Jason: Choosing the system for a new setting
Hi everyone, I'm posting this in several forums so I can get the most feedback. I apologize in advance if you've seen this message elsewhere. I'm looking at releasing a…
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Participants: Polgarus_Jason, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, GregS.

1/6/2005 Tav_Behemoth: Rights: New Writers, Old Product Line, Not Work-for-Hire
This is a continuation of issues raised in The world (of rights) is a complicated place, but in the time I've been questing for a response, that thread has slipped…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, jdagna, daMoose_Neo, madelf.

1/6/2005 Space Cowboy: Do PDF sales undercut Print sales? If so, to what extent?
Hey all, A friend recently stated his belief that PDF sales of an RPG undercut Print sales of the selfsame product. I'm not certain if this can be proved, but…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Dev, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, GregS, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege, Trevis Martin, madelf, Bankuei, Tav_Behemoth, sbroadbentcom, Yokiboy, efindel, rpghost.

1/6/2005 Dev: PDF Publishing Wishlist
I started this thread to share (and gather) some "wishes" that I had for PDF products, and I'd like both some additional request, and also responses to how these are/aren't…
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Participants: Dev, madelf, JimLotFP, Yokiboy, Ed Cha, klapton, rpghost, axonrg, Tav_Behemoth.

1/7/2005 philreed: Sites to sell PDFs . . .
I'd like to expand to selling at other sites. Can anyone suggest PDF sales sites that are fair, easy to work with, and worth the time/effort?
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Participants: philreed, Solly Brown, ethan_greer, M Jason Parent, JimLotFP.

1/7/2005 Sydney Freedberg: [GroupDesign: Schrodinger's War] So we need a website...
The latest page of the mechanics thread has starting going into the fact that this project is starting to need its own website -- an issue of such importance I…
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Participants: Sydney Freedberg, Trevis Martin, jerry, daMoose_Neo, Doug Ruff, Tobias, Andrew Morris.

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