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5/8/2005 neoknocker: Living from the game
Hi everyone, I'm seriously considering of starting my RPG company and publish my first game. I used to work for a small RPG company, for a brief moment, and the…
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Participants: neoknocker, Eero Tuovinen, jdagna, philreed, MatrixGamer, guildofblades.

5/6/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Game (Iron) Chef Contest: It's back! (May 21-29)
Hey all, just wanted to drop this bomb: Been working with Mike H and Ralph to bring back the Game Chef: This time, a little bigger, a little prettier, and…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Andrew Morris, Asrogoth, Valamir, BrennaLaRosa, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Paul Czege, PlotDevice.

5/6/2005 paulkdad: When do you change your prices?
Over in this thread Valamir said: If I had it to do over again, honestly, I'd probably sell Uni at $18.00 instead of $15. And while I understand the "if…
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Participants: paulkdad, TonyLB, philreed, Andrew Morris, daMoose_Neo, jdagna, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, LloydBrown, guildofblades.

5/2/2005 Andrew Morris: Logo design -- cost and other questions
I'm working on finishing my first game, Group Therapy. While still a month or so from being ready for playtesting, I'm trying to get all the logistical details taken care…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, LloydBrown, tj333, Resonantg, Trish2.

5/1/2005 Heraldic Game Design: Non-Standard RPG Components
Hi there, folks. I'd like to get some opinions about the direction I should take with an RPG I am working on. When I first began this project, the system…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Eero Tuovinen, daMoose_Neo, paulkdad, jdagna, komradebob, Valamir, Selene Tan, GreatWolf, ravenx99, groundhog, Chris Passeno, LloydBrown, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2005 Mike Holmes: D&D for Dummies
Actually has nothing to do with Moose's game, and is just what it sounds like: http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/productCd-0764584596.html So, will this product have any impact? Does it attempt to mainstream D&D (and…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Andrew Morris, pete_darby, jdagna, komradebob.

4/27/2005 killacozzy: Conceptualizing[Cian]
For a great many months, I've been spying on the various helpful posts in this forum, and this late evening, I've finally decided to get "out there" with some of…
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Participants: killacozzy, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Selene Tan, Valamir, Technocrat13.

4/25/2005 daMoose_Neo: Small Press & The Ccard Game - The How To!
After some recent PM discussions with Phil Reed and at the behest of Ralph Mazza almost a year ago, I'm pulling together my notes, research and experiance on producing a…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, philreed, Veritas Games, Lxndr, Valamir.

4/25/2005 kenw: Rapid POD, a new way to print your RPG.
Dear Publisher, Rapid POD is a new Print on Demand that guarantees the quality of a traditional printing in short runs from 1 to 1,000. Unlike other POD companies, we…
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Participants: kenw, Domhnall, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards.

4/23/2005 philreed: First Wave Printing -- Comic-sized books
Okay, I thought some of you would want to see this site: http://www.firstwaveprinting.com/printing.htm I'm using them for a product (haven't yet seen the final version but I have seen their…
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Participants: philreed.

4/21/2005 MatrixGamer: Home Printing
Andrew Morris asked me to write about what I've done to set up a home printing operation. I told him I'd put it on the forum in case anyone else…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Andrew Morris, xenopulse, Valamir, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, jdagna, philreed, Christopher Weeks.

4/20/2005 Andrew Morris: Sources for harcover POD?
I've searched and found only two POD printers that offer a hardcover option, but they either require a minimum purchase or don't offer specialty covers. What I'm looking for is…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, philreed, Ben Lehman, MisterPoppet, Jason L Blair.

4/20/2005 StrongBadMun: curious about protection
I know that the best way to protect the stuff I come up with is to copyright it. Duh. My question though is what other ways can I protect myself,…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, jrs, jdagna.

4/19/2005 komradebob: Selling "Simple" Games?
Over on this thread in the Universalis forum, Chris Engle, Ralph, and Mike have been discussing the challenges of selling "simple games". Now, this is of personal interest to me,…
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Participants: komradebob, Andrew Morris, Jasper, xenopulse, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, MatrixGamer, Heraldic Game Design, abzu, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2005 xiombarg: Unsung Ready
Wahoo! I have my second commercial role-playing game entirely laid out at this point, in the form of a text-only beta. You can download a copy here: http://xiombrag.tripod.com/unsung.pdf If you…
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Participants: xiombarg, Jasper, matthijs, paulkdad.

4/16/2005 Duke: Creative control.
this is my first posting so please bear with me. I'm curious what the opions of this forum are on maintaining creative control. Mostly I'm curious about creative control of…
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Participants: Duke, Eero Tuovinen.

4/12/2005 Andrew Morris: Interior art -- how important is it?
In putting together my first game(s), I've realized two things: 1) I have no artistic ability whatsoever. 2) My budget is slightly more than zero. This got me thinking about…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Trevis Martin, Shreyas Sampat, jdagna, abzu, Bob Goat, Valamir, Ron Edwards, James Holloway, Michael S. Miller, Bardsandsages, daMoose_Neo, xiombarg, Domhnall, paulkdad, MatrixGamer, killacozzy, komradebob.

4/12/2005 timfire: Color Art and Paper Quality
Alright folks, so I've decided to upgrade the interior art for The Mountain Witch to full color. (Yah!) Should I upgrade the paper thickness as well? I've been assuming 60#…
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Participants: timfire, abzu, Andy Kitkowski, nikola.

4/11/2005 nikola: Graphic Designers
Who are the graphic designers of the Forge? Are your services for sale to other Forgies? I'm one such designer and have worked with Lumpley and Timfire on their books.…
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Participants: nikola, TonyLB, Matt Snyder, jdagna, Jasper, abzu, greyorm, MisterPoppet, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, Bob Goat, Paul Czege.

4/9/2005 nikola: Card games: how do you get the damn things printed?
I've spoken to a couple of printers about my current project, Under the Bed. It uses unique cards, but they turn out to be very expensive to print. Currently, I'm…
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Participants: nikola, timfire, daMoose_Neo, Shawn De Arment, Valamir, guildofblades, Polaris, Walt Freitag.

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5/14/2005 Solly Brown: Independent Publisher Forums
Hi Cold Blooded Games would like to have a forum dedicated to Dog Town. How do you go about creating a forum on the indie publishers page. Jonathan Ridd www.coldbloodedgames.com…
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Participants: Solly Brown, timfire.

5/15/2005 Polaris: Consolidators/Fulfillment List??
Greetings, I would like to ask that we start a list of consolidators/distributors here. I am asking this for selfish reasons (I am trying to find good ones), but I…
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Participants: Polaris, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/16/2005 Tony Irwin: Pixellation and dpi
The new pictures I've done for Shoujo Story are printing out ever so slightly pixellated. I scanned and saved the images at 300 dpi, which I understand is kind of…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, abzu, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, jdagna, Veritas Games, Angaros, MatrixGamer, Chris Passeno.

5/17/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Indie RPG Awards: It's Your turn to Vote!
Hey all, I just wanted to let you know that the Indie RPG Awards' Peoples' Choice Award is now active and online. You can see the big red button to…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/23/2005 Palaskar: Advertising for the complete newbie
Ok, I have a great new RPG system (Signature 6.0.2) and it's reasonably priced ($5 for 84 pages in PDF). The problem is that I've found out that I'm absolutely…
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Participants: Palaskar, neoknocker, MatrixGamer, Michael S. Miller.

5/24/2005 Trevis Martin: Publishing with TiddlyWiki
I wanted to share this with everyone. I ran across a wiki software called TiddlyWiki. It is an entirely client side wiki software written in xhtml and javascript. That works…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Andy Kitkowski, Paul Czege, Gaerik.

5/27/2005 Krammer: Board Game Publishers
Now I know this is an independent role-playing game site, but I was just wondering if anyone has any idea of any publishers that accept submissions for strategic board games…
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Participants: Krammer, Trevis Martin, Ben Lehman, c, daMoose_Neo, MatrixGamer, Michael S. Miller, guildofblades.

5/28/2005 MarktheAnimator: Using Foreign Printers
Hello, I may use Thai Watana Panich Press, which is located in Thailand, to print my game book. They have given me a unit price of US$ 2.0824 for 5000…
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Participants: MarktheAnimator, Eero Tuovinen, Erick Wujcik, daMoose_Neo, Valamir, Blankshield.

5/28/2005 Remko: Possibility for first-time RPG developers; free publishing
Hi all, I was reading something on a Belgium RPG site (www.mandragon.be), when I stumbled on a site which says it will publish your book freely. It's only interesting for…
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Participants: Remko, Ben Lehman, Justin A Hamilton, MisterPoppet, darrick, Ethawyn.

6/1/2005 Allan: The game is finished, now what?
Hello all, I'm nearing completion of my Sweet Dreams RPG books, in preparation for my first GenCon in August. The graphic designer is doing the layout and website, the other…
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Participants: Allan, Michael S. Miller, Jasper.

6/2/2005 Justin Marx: Database Chargen tools - pros and cons?
Hi everyone, I'm new to the forge and if this sort of question has been asked before, please forgive my newbieness and link me in the right direction. Anyway, with…
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Participants: Justin Marx, Dauntless, Clay, Christopher Weeks.

6/2/2005 Ria: Trademark/Copyright Rules
When do skills become trademarked/copyrighted? Do skills become trademarked/copyrighted? If your game's skills and skill system are similar to another, is that a problem? Would changing a skill to correct…
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Participants: Ria, Adam Dray, Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Veritas Games, daMoose_Neo.

6/2/2005 epweissengruber: Generating Income: Two Alternatives.
At Collisiondetection, Clive Thompson discusses the implications of the "ransom" model of publishing, a model tested by Greg Stolze in the publication of his game "Meatbot Massacre." The followup discussion…
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Participants: epweissengruber.

6/5/2005 darrick: decent review
new review of Empire of Satanis in this Dunwich Herald issue. some of my friends at the Forge like Paul Czege and Scott Knipe found EoS to be very Lovecraftian,…
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Participants: darrick, hardcoremoose, Jasper, daMoose_Neo, MisterPoppet, xenopulse, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2005 wingnix: Path to a 250-page Complete CCL RPG pdf by August 2006?
At the start of this year I accomplished a seven-year goal and published my first novel. “AmerIndian 2192” is a Native American science fiction novel that I have made available…
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Participants: wingnix.

6/7/2005 mjstahl: Book Structure - the ordering of chapters
I spent the last weekend looking through countless books (personally owned, and store owned) because I am having trouble deciding on the chapter structure for my current project. It seems…
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Participants: mjstahl, Allan, Grand_Commander13, Simon Marks, timfire, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer.

6/7/2005 Ethawyn: Just starting
Hiya. First of all thanks for these boards. Ok. Down to business. My friends and I are starting up an RPG company. Right now all we have are a bunch…
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Participants: Ethawyn, timfire, MatrixGamer, Valamir.

6/8/2005 Ethawyn: Fonts
What are the legalaties involved in font use? What fonts are open?
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Participants: Ethawyn, Addix, madelf, daMoose_Neo, Gordon C. Landis, paulkdad, Resonantg, Victor Gijsbers, Malcolm, Peregrine, davidJ.

6/8/2005 Allan: [Sweet Dreams] Example of Play
After a lot of related comments this past week, I've decided to rewrite the Example of Play for the Sweet Dreams Players' Book. My previous example was intended primarily to…
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Participants: Allan, TonyLB, Valamir.

6/8/2005 Andrew Morris: Perceived value of PDF vs. print
Recently, I was excited to hear that Trollbabe might be offered in a print version, because I've wanted to buy it for a while, but the fact that it was…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, ethan_greer, Asrogoth, Mike Holmes, PlotDevice, Eero Tuovinen, Trevis Martin, Bob Goat, Matt Gwinn, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, Ria, gatekeeper, Valamir, TheLe, Travis Brown.

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