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3/16/2002 J B Bell: Intellectual Property and Dice Mechanics
There's been some debate about the legality of lifting dice mechanics from other games, with a few different opinions. So, the usual disclaimer at the head of this thread: there…
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Participants: J B Bell, woodelf, C. Edwards, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Armin D. Sykes, Blake Hutchins, Seth L. Blumberg, Misguided Games.

3/15/2002 quozl: missing article
Clinton, is the following article still up on the web somewhere? The link on the articles page is broken. Publishing Your Web-Based Indie Game for Under $100 by Clinton R.…
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Participants: quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/10/2002 mearls: Publishing on the Super Cheap
Hello, I'm thinking of publishing an off the wall gaming book for sale at GenCon. Here are my printing goals: Small print run (200 tops; I don't want to wreck…
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Participants: mearls, Matt Snyder, Dav.

3/7/2002 rafael: quoting lyrics
this may have been covered already, but i couldn't find any discussion of the subject anywhere on this site. i've seen numerous game books quote popular song lyrics (a perfect…
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Participants: rafael, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, GMSkarka, Seth L. Blumberg, contracycle, Skippy, Matt Snyder, Bailey, Dav, Adam, woodelf, J B Bell.

3/6/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Fonts, fonts, fonts...who's got the fonts?
For your game logo needs, a great site: http://www.1001fonts.com/ Lots of stuff here...best thing is you can type in a word and see an instant preview of that word spelled…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, unodiablo, Matt Snyder, J B Bell, Bailey, Ben Morgan, Matt, Wolfen.

3/2/2002 Galfraxas: A Cheap Way To Create PDFs.
Okay, some of you guys may have seen this on UncleBear.com, but there's this rather cool utility out there that allows people to create PDF files for free, and it's…
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Participants: Galfraxas, James V. West, Zak Arntson, Matt, EvilIdler, Clay, Reimer Behrends.

2/25/2002 Bailey: No Website
I don't know html and I work full time as well as going to school full time. Is there anyway I could get away with something bare bonesed? Is there…
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Participants: Bailey, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/22/2002 Christopher Kubasik: The Narrativist Community
I have no idea where to dump this thread, so I'm putting it here. Whither GenCon? Sure, RPGs are where all our gaming concerns grew from. But when I read…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, James V. West, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, mearls, Dav, wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2002 GMSkarka: GAMA Trade Show 2002
OK...So, now we've had the discussion about who's going to be at GenCon '02 (not me, I'm skipping this year and taking a real, non-working vacation for the first time…
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Participants: GMSkarka, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

2/15/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002: the lowdown
Hello everybody, It's about time I announced the Forge plans for GenCon. The main issue is that "the Forge" is not a business entity and as such will not have…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Zak Arntson, Jason L Blair, James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, mahoux, mearls, sdemory, Le Joueur, Matt Gwinn, Dav, Adam.

2/12/2002 Ian O'Rourke: PayPal - What's the skinny.
Okay, I'm not sure this is even the right forum, but it seems the closest to me :) I've noticed over time a lot of website and e-publishers using PayPal…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, J B Bell, greyorm, Tim Gray.

2/10/2002 Matt Gwinn: Welfare Publishing
Ok, I really want to have copies of Kayfabe available for GENCON this year, but from the looks of things I won't have more than about $500 to put towards…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Dav, Adam.

2/7/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Rephrase: I was approached for publication and need advice
Hey guys, I got an email yesterday from a wellknown company asking me if I was willing to work with them to get my game SOAP published. They are a…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, TheRef, GMSkarka, Bailey, Jack Spencer Jr, Dav.

2/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Lightning Printing
Okay, I went to Lightning Printing's website to get a price quote http://www.lightningprinting.com/quotefrm.htm and I must say, I looked at the info they requested....and was confused. Being a neophyte to…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jack Spencer Jr, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Chris Passeno, GMSkarka, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/31/2002 Dav: Price Setting in the Gaming World
Okay, before I begin, I just want to mention that I may, to some degree, break into crazy business terms and mathematics. I don't know, I haven't written anything yet.…
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Participants: Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim Gray, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, GMSkarka, Valamir, J B Bell, woodelf, Bailey.

1/18/2002 Matt: Viral Marketing
Several forum posts both here and on RPG.NET have touched on "how to get new people into gaming" and "how to effectively publicise your game". I was considering both of…
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Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards, Laurel, contracycle, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, woodelf, Tim Denee.

1/11/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: The Joys of Publicizing Your Game
Alrighty, it looks like Cartoon Action Hour is almost out of the final playtest phase.....and it's time for me to begin publicizing it. Now, since last time I posted about…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/7/2002 Laurel: Elements of a Great Cover
This goes along with a game design thread. I've always felt like the most important piece of art an RPG book can have is the cover. Unless I'm looking for…
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Participants: Laurel, Jason L Blair, Tim C Koppang, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt, Bankuei, Bailey, James V. West, rafael, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir.

1/3/2002 Ryan Ary: Seeking Christian Moore
Hey anybody know how to reach this guy? He was the owner of Last Unicorn Games. Sold it to WoTC. I want to talk to him about a copyright. All…
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Participants: Ryan Ary, Le Joueur.

12/31/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: The Whole Website Ordeal
Okay, I now have a website created, but it's not on my own domain yet. The designer just put it on his account until I can get my own. Now,…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, greyorm, Tim Gray, Ian O'Rourke, J B Bell, Matt, Clay.

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3/17/2002 Adam: Page Numbering in PDFs
Hey all, I thought I'd ask people to weigh in their opinion here, since there are a few people who have published PDFs on the web before. :) I've traditionally…
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Participants: Adam, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, Seth L. Blumberg.

3/18/2002 Dav: 24.95 vs 25 (Price continuation)
Note: This is a continuation of "Price Setting..." Thread in thhis here forum. There is no attached link because I am lazy... suck me. Bailey; I agree that X.95 is…
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Participants: Dav, quozl.

3/18/2002 hoodrat3785: Publishing on the internet.
Is this a good idea or no? I am not sure how I wish to publish my new game.
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Participants: hoodrat3785, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Matt, Clay.

3/21/2002 Matt Gwinn: Free PDFs vs Final Product
I have been offering Kayfabe for free on my web site for about six months now. About a month ago I decided that I would not update the PDF file,…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Alex Gray.

3/22/2002 Butch: Latex and translation software
Some people talked about latex in this forum. Which distribution is the best for Windows 98?!?! Latex?!! MikTex?!?! Anybody have some ideas about a good translation software?!? (french to english,…
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Participants: Butch, Matt, Clay, Philippe Tromeur.

3/22/2002 Ron Edwards: GAMA debriefing
Hello, I spent most of this week at the GAMA Trade Show, an annual event held at Las Vegas. For those of you who don't know, the people who attend…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, Jerry D. Grayson, GMSkarka, Misguided Games, JasonSch.

3/29/2002 JSDiamond: Indies getting respect
Regarding Ron's debriefing on this year's GAMA trade show, I believe that he is quite right about a positive change that may be going on in the minds of retailers…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Misguided Games.

3/31/2002 Bailey: Font creation
I've used Gimp for my font creation, but I'm not too good so I just download all the fonts a can.
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Participants: Bailey, Wolfen, Jason L Blair, Michael Bowman, Adam, Clay.

4/2/2002 Clay: Cheap PDF Solution
I just found a great solution for PDFs that doesn't require too much technical know-how. It does, however, require that you have access to a UNIX machine with kde and…
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Participants: Clay, Clinton R. Nixon, Buddha Nature, Reimer Behrends, Chris Passeno, Valamir.

4/3/2002 Max Tangent: What to Expect
Allright, I've done it. I've gone and made a game system, and a setting. I would put a year between now and I finishing it, that is, put enough of…
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Participants: Max Tangent, Ron Edwards, Eugene Zee, GMSkarka, Jerry D. Grayson, Dav, Misguided Games.

4/3/2002 Matt Gwinn: Cheap Short Run Printing
HI everyone, While searching high and low for an affordable way to get kayfabe printed I came across this site http://www.greenepublicationsinc.com/ They can print perfect bound books for less than…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Tyrant, Eugene Zee, Chris Passeno, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

4/3/2002 contracycle: pure visuals
This is a fairly out-there thought I had a while ago and I just want to ask what people think of the idea. This has to do with the Matrix…
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Participants: contracycle, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tyrant, Le Joueur, Laurel, Eugene Zee, Seth L. Blumberg, RobMuadib, Misguided Games.

4/9/2002 Buddha Nature: A Philisophical Question
Why do you create games? Do you do it for the money? Do you do it for the fame? Do you do it to make the RPG community that much…
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Participants: Buddha Nature, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Le Joueur, JSDiamond, contracycle, Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell.

4/11/2002 bodhi: Generating a Small Income from Subscriptions
Has anyone used the following publishing model, and if so, how successful does it seem to be? The game is published to the internet, is free, and is freely distributable.…
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Participants: bodhi, Nathan, Ron Edwards, Matt.

4/12/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Raping the public...
Ever since finishing InSpectres, I've had a bunch of sales...which is great! :) I've also taken some hit in the criticism department. The standard mantra seems to be "It's too…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Nathan, Mike Holmes, Eugene Zee, Laurel, unodiablo, Sidhain, Blake Hutchins, Tim C Koppang, Clay, Wolfen, Dav, hardcoremoose, Alex Gray, Bob McNamee, Jason L Blair.

4/15/2002 Robotron666: Discouraged but still trying
Hey guys, New to this area although I was an oldschooler on Gaming Outpost and RPG.net. I'm looking at printing my own game, and folks are telling me not to…
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Participants: Robotron666, Ron Edwards, Eugene Zee, rafael, Laurel, Roy.

4/16/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002 - very important
Hello! Jason and I have now, albeit with much suffering, landed our three tables at GenCon (or close anyway). As I've described before, Forge folks are welcome to attend and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Misguided Games, Mario, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Gwinn, Nathan, Ferry Bazelmans, joshua neff, Dav, Jason L Blair, Michael Hopcroft, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, Seth L. Blumberg, woodelf, hive.

4/16/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: PDF Publishing and Printing Problems
Hey, all. I'm trying to InSpectres ready for a "Kinko's special" print-run but I'm having problems with the whole resolution/image size thing. I have created an alternate (300 dpi) cover…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder.

4/18/2002 lumpley: Party Games
Know what I want on my game shelf? The Forge Book of Party Games. A stack of 2-5 page games that a. you can play ten minutes from now, with…
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Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, J B Bell, Matt, Nathan, Jason L Blair, Henry Fitch.

4/19/2002 Matt Gwinn: Handling Outsourced Supplements
Kayfabe is nearing completion for GENCON and I've had offers by three people to do supplements. One guy wants to do preestablished promotion supplement. One guy is already writing a…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

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