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6/22/2005 davidJ: Editing
I am curious, what are the rates for editing?
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Participants: davidJ, Ben Lehman, Andrew Morris, Thor Olavsrud, Jake Richmond, Malcolm, jdagna, Frank T.

6/19/2005 unheilig studios: Quark or Adobe?
For those of you who do layout, what is your chosen program; Quark, Adobe, or Something Else?
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Participants: unheilig studios, Jasper, Trevis Martin, Matt Gwinn, Rich Ranallo, Shreyas Sampat, Adam, Malcolm, abzu, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Troy_Costisick, Chris Passeno, MatrixGamer, timfire.

6/17/2005 Valamir: Indie Boardgame Publisher
Since there've been a recent spate of threads interested in boardgame publishing I thought I'd throw up a link to Viktory. Its an independently published wargame which could be summarized…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/16/2005 Malcolm: 2nd Editions: How far to go?
Just throwing the door open to opinion on this one. Recently, I've had something of a change of heart when it comes to games design (I was going to say…
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Participants: Malcolm, c, Justin Marx, Matt, Eero Tuovinen, abzu, Bob Goat.

6/16/2005 GregStolze: Indie Games hit National Public Radio
At least one indie game, anyhow: NPR's On The Media (http://www.onthemedia.org/) interviewed Daniel Solis and myself about Meatbot Massacre (www.danielsolis.com/meatbot) and the ransom model of publishing. I know. I'm as…
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Participants: GregStolze, Yokiboy, Jasper, Paul Czege, Space Cowboy, jrs.

6/13/2005 Matt Gwinn: New Cover for Kayfabe?
A few people have recommended that I change the cover for the next print run of Kayfabe and possibly move back to the original cover. Was just wondering what people…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Andrew Morris, Valamir, Bob Goat, Yokiboy, jdagna, Ria, Trish2.

6/12/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] New Cover, Second Draft
Way back when, I got critiques (useful as always) on the first rough draft of the new Capes cover. So, working on those, I've expanded to the new second draft…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ria, GB Steve, Andrew Morris.

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.

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 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.

6/7/2005 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.

6/7/2005 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 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.

6/5/2005 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.

6/2/2005 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.

6/2/2005 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 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.

6/1/2005 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.

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.

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.

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6/23/2005 Technocrat13: [Instant Publisher] Has anyone tried this site?
Hiya all. Feeling pretty good that I might actually get somewhere with FH8 led me to the fantasy that my next few games might actually be worthy of printing. Which…
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Participants: Technocrat13, philreed, Andrew Morris, daMoose_Neo, Matt Gwinn.

6/24/2005 Frank T: Playtesting Misery
Here is my dilemma: I have designed a game, BARBAREN!. I have had four playtesting sessions, all of them one-on-one with the same player. Those went very much to my…
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Participants: Frank T, Ben Lehman, daMoose_Neo.

6/24/2005 daMoose_Neo: Constructing a CCG Co-op?
As I've discussed several times in the past with many people, card games, collectable or customizable, are expensive to produce, especially with the glut of games entering the market every…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Doug Ruff, Veritas Games, Mike Holmes, Polaris.

6/25/2005 Grex: Why Some Publishers Are Digitizing Themselves
Not completely on-topic, but nonetheless some interesting thoughts on electronic publishing: http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/publisher/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000968186
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Participants: Grex, Andy Kitkowski, Polaris.

6/26/2005 gatekeeper: Pen and Paper/Tabletop RPGs: Marketing
My name is Ryan Todd, long time lurker, first posting. I am a PnP/Tabletop game designer. Gods and Nemesis (the company I work for) has created an online pole -…
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Participants: gatekeeper, gsoylent, Joshua BishopRoby.

6/27/2005 MatrixGamer: Home Printing
I've just spent the last weekend printing a binding book for Origins and GenCon. I'll be at Origins later this week. Anybody who is there who would like to see…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Chris Passeno, Gaerik, Matt Snyder, guildofblades, Andrew Morris.

6/29/2005 Avalloc: Overwhelmed by Publishing
I have been lurking around these forums for a while, and I seen tons of useful info and been lead to all sorts of resources and other interesting websites. But…
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Participants: Avalloc, Michael S. Miller, MatrixGamer, abzu, davidJ, Andrew Morris, TheLe.

6/30/2005 davidJ: SRD question.
I cannot find the Illithid (Mind flayer), or certain dragon variants in the SRD. Now, I know that Yuan-ti are off limits.. but I didn't think the Mind Flayer was.…
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Participants: davidJ, Sean, Vaxalon.

6/30/2005 preludetotheend: A list of good printing presses
OK folks I would rather not have to learn the hard way that one publishers better than another. So I created this little thread in hopes that nice people like…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Polaris.

6/30/2005 Allan: Sweet Dreams cover
I just finished the Sweet Dreams Players' Book cover. I'd welcome some feedback on it. Specifically, how are the fonts, size and placement of text? Is the upper left corner…
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Participants: Allan, PlotDevice, c, Andrew Morris, timfire, matthijs, Jasper Polane.

7/1/2005 epweissengruber: Great source of free visuals
This website is a digitization of a noted German reference work, Zur Geschichte der Kostueme. THE HISTORY OF COSTUME - INDEX By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880 http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML
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Participants: epweissengruber, BigElvis.

7/1/2005 daMoose_Neo: The Supers CCG - Duelist 1st!
Thrilled to be wrapping things up! Just need to finalize the work on the logo and layout the rules insert and the first game featuring the Duelist System will be…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Veritas Games, btrc, Doug Ruff, Eero Tuovinen, mangaocid.

7/3/2005 btrc: Advanced pdfs
If you ever wondered at how much functionality you can cram into a pdf, I have the demo version of Infinite Armies up at: http://www.btrc.net/html/iarmies.html This is somewhat of a…
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Participants: btrc, Veritas Games, Bob Goat, abzu, fug01664, TheLe.

7/4/2005 Grand_Commander13: Spiral-bound and the "Indie-Punk" look
A while ago, I said in this thread of mine that I intended on spiral-binding my RPG. Well, GenCon didn't quite happen for me because of the incredible costs versus…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, timfire, matthijs, Jasper, Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller, davidJ, AdeptPhenix, MatrixGamer.

7/4/2005 PrzeSzkoda: Copyright - movie frames
Although I've been lurking around The Forge for some time now, I never made my presence apparent to other users - so I guess it's time to say 'Hi'. Hi.…
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Participants: PrzeSzkoda, Eero Tuovinen, c.

7/4/2005 Palaskar: Indexes and Bookmarks in PDF
How do I make indexes and bookmarks in a PDF file? I'm working with Microsoft Word and using it to print out PDF files, but so far, the closest I…
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Participants: Palaskar, Grand_Commander13, Avalloc, MikeSands, TheLe, Polaris.

7/7/2005 Doc Blue: Cafe Press for Printing
Has anyone tried CafePress for book publishing? Any comments or experiences to share?
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Participants: Doc Blue, Grand_Commander13, MisterPoppet, Jake Richmond, Ron Edwards.

7/9/2005 GregStolze: The Ransom Model is on NPR and ...in Spaaace!
If you've downloaded Meatbot Massacre, you're probably familiar with how the Ransom Model for distribution works. If you haven't, head on over to http://www.danielsolis.com/meatbot/, get the game, read the theory.…
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Participants: GregStolze, Veritas Games, Eero Tuovinen, komradebob.

7/9/2005 Andy Kitkowski: 24 Hour RPG Project: Grand Act is Nigh!
Hey all, sorry for the belated promo, but there's a weekend and a half left in the Grand Act for the 24 Hour RPG project. Feel free to join in…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

7/10/2005 mangaocid: Element - CCG
Ok, so I mentioned making a game called "Element". This game uses pieces of the "duelist system", creating an extended play version.(See the "Supers" thread for more information). Instead of…
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Participants: mangaocid, Veritas Games.

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