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12/18/2005 Darcy Burgess: Everybody loves cards! But do you have a tuckbox?
I can think of one or two games 'round here that have come out recently that involve cards -- custom or otherwise. I thought that this might be a useful…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola, guildofblades, Mike Sugarbaker, daMoose_Neo, Veritas Games.

12/17/2005 preludetotheend: Creating a fan base.
Good day, I have been trying to decide on different approaches to my getting a setting heavy game into the public and have pretty much decided that creating a fan…
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Participants: preludetotheend, abzu, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Certified, Ron Edwards, nikola, MatrixGamer, Sydney Freedberg.

12/15/2005 daMoose_Neo: Required Purchases - do they work or put off?
I'm wrapping up work on my new book for the Imp Game, Traps & Mishaps, sans some additional contnet, and have an important decision to make. This isn't a survey…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Thor Olavsrud, guildofblades, matthijs, nikola, Eero Tuovinen, Jared A. Sorensen, Brendan, Joshua BishopRoby, komradebob.

12/14/2005 Jason Newquist: Using Recordings to Lower Barriers
Split off from A Skill to Cultivate: Setting Stakes, which was talking about how we can design games with feedback mechanisms to encourage setting good stakes.  I don't have an…
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Participants: Jason Newquist, gains, Vaxalon, Joshua BishopRoby, JarrodHenry, Nathan P., TonyLB, cpeterso, matthijs, jasonm, Valamir, ffilz.

12/14/2005 nikola: Sky pie in the form of gaming clubs and community centers
There's been a lot of talk lately about gaming stores. Some people go so far as to say that we're killing them by selling off our websites. Piffle, I say.…
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Participants: nikola, JarrodHenry, Keith Senkowski, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, Thor Olavsrud, Iskander, jenskot, Marhault, Clinton R. Nixon, Chris Geisel, nerdnyc.

12/13/2005 komradebob: [legal question] using pictures of objects in a for-sale game
Okay, I know that you should ask lawyers legal questions, but maybe one of you folks already knows the answer to this one: What are the restrictions on using a…
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Participants: komradebob, JarrodHenry, Blankshield, Eero Tuovinen, Brendan, Joshua BishopRoby.

12/12/2005 Nathan P.: "Best Of" Collections
Apparently there's some interest in a new thread about this... In Lines vs. Authors I said Once a publisher has a number of titles out, even if they're published in…
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Participants: Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris, Eero Tuovinen, FlameLover, komradebob, tj333, LordSmerf, JarrodHenry, Sydney Freedberg, nikola, Veritas Games, Ben Lehman.

12/12/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Domus] Teaser/One-Page as Marketing tool
Has anyone tried writing up a standalone teaser for their game?  I'm contemplating doing this for Domus, in development - here -.  My agenda is two-fold: use it as…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Joshua BishopRoby, tj333, nikola.

12/10/2005 Valamir: Book Industry Study Group
[url]http://www.bisg.org/publications/radar.html[/url] Just came across this particular organization...they asked me to take a survey on my experience as a book publisher believe it or not...of course their survey didn't have any…
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Participants: Valamir, Calithena, nikola.

12/9/2005 jasonm: Packaging cards
Some advice from those of you who have published any product with cards, please... The Shab-al-Hiri Roach will ship with a set of 40 cards, and I'm trying to figure…
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Participants: jasonm, Veritas Games, timfire, joepub, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola.

12/6/2005 dindenver: What belongs in a demo version?
Hi!   I want to put a "Lite" or demo version on the web, but what belongs in it?   Is it the background that will entice the reader of…
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Participants: dindenver, Valamir, GreatWolf, MatrixGamer, joepub, Joshua BishopRoby.

12/5/2005 Montola: Getting a cool real job by making indie games
After reading the pricing discussions, I was left wondering if some of you guys have gotten a games-related real job (a half-time or full-time job with sensible working hours and…
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Participants: Montola, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Joshua BishopRoby, LloydBrown, Jake Richmond, gains, Miskatonic, drnuncheon, D. Woolsey, joepub.

12/4/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Ptolus and new methods of distro for setting-rich games
So, today I learned that the $120 Huge Bundle Thingy ("Preorder Special") for Monte Cook's upcoming D&D setting called "Ptolus" (more at : http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mpress_Ptolus ) includes this huge whopping core…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, komradebob, Nathan P., Tony Irwin, ukgpublishing, Joshua BishopRoby, MatrixGamer, Andrew Morris, tetsujin28, Troy_Costisick, Iskander, Calithena, Keith Senkowski, Ben Lehman.

12/3/2005 Dev: Changes at Pandemonium Books (Cambridge, MA)
Many of you stock your games with Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, MA. (I've picked up quite a few independent titles there over the least few years.) I just heard today…
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Participants: Dev, abzu, nikola, Mike Sugarbaker, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2005 Ron Edwards: [A PUBLISHING STORY] The emissary
[b]Second in a series. I don't know how many yet.[/b] They call him a freelance negotiator, and maybe he even believes it. Sometimes they think they're journalists, sometimes attaches or…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Brand_Robins, Bob Goat, abzu, nikola, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/1/2005 nikola: Lines vs. Authors
Several times in recent threads, store owners, large publishers, and distributors have pointed out that game lines sell, where single books don't. I'm not going to debate that. I think…
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Participants: nikola, GreatWolf, John Burdick, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, chadu, Blankshield, Adam, timfire, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, guildofblades, James Holloway, LloydBrown, Roger, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., Troy_Costisick, Jonathan Walton.

11/29/2005 seanpatfan: Challenges and Solutions, Take Two
Hello again, everyone. I do hope that the holiday was a pleasant one for everyone. As promised, I am now posting the larger document that I referenced numerous times in…
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Participants: seanpatfan, Bankuei, timfire, abzu, Bob Goat, LloydBrown, Ben Lehman, Valamir, madelf, MatrixGamer, Troy_Costisick, komradebob, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Eero Tuovinen.

11/29/2005 guildofblades: Reply about Margin from the multi source thread
Hi Lloyd, >>First, how many Best Retailers do you have?  That's a fairly significant buy-in for most stores.  Your regular discount is 55%, not 60%, and the retailer pays shipping--probably…
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Participants: guildofblades, LloydBrown.

11/29/2005 CSBone: How would you publish and market a "Rules Lite" system
As I have been working on my Space Ranger RPG, I realized that I actually had two different design goals. One was to create a solid, low handling, character driven…
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Participants: CSBone, Paul Czege, talysman, chadu, timfire, cpeterso, Ben Lehman, nikola.

11/27/2005 lampros: On Pricing
This started as a reply to Ben's thread "Making Money, Making a Living" (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17668.0). After I typed the reply I saw that the thread was on hold, but I thought…
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Participants: lampros, Victor Gijsbers, Joshua BishopRoby, Gregor Hutton, guildofblades.

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12/20/2005 heironymous: [Seven Leagues] PDF vs POD pricing
I have Seven Leagues at RPG Now for $13: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=6048 and at Lulu for $20 plus S+H: http://www.lulu.com/content/153328 It turns out that if I let people download the Lulu version…
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Participants: heironymous, Joshua BishopRoby, TheLe, jeremycoatney.

12/22/2005 darrick: deviantART really paid off
hey, what's up?  it's darrick.  a couple months ago i posted something about the second edition for Empire of Satanis.  i was looking for art, writing help, general feedback, etc. …
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Participants: darrick, Jasper, joepub.

12/23/2005 abzu: Retailer Article on rpg.net
An article by Marcus King, owner of Titan Games and VP at GAMA. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/counter15dec05.html What's fascinating about this article is how little Mr King claims to know about how games…
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Participants: abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam, LloydBrown, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, TitanGames.

12/26/2005 DavidBeoulve: Printing your own CCG Cards Howto, Where, & Prices
These are the links I have found once I learned the right words to Google: "Playing Card Sheets perforated" sans quotes. Printing Your Own Cards: Design-A-Card "UPrintEm" 120 cards =~…
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Participants: DavidBeoulve, Veritas Games, joepub, Julian, daMoose_Neo, Troy_Costisick, Wolfen, Nathan P., nikola, guildofblades.

12/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies] November results at last
Hello, I am over a month behind schedule for the November round of the Ronnies feedback. Everyone has been very patient with me, which I appreciate. The real problems with…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank T, Ben Lehman, hix, Troy_Costisick, Iskander, Tobias, TonyPace, Malcolm, Paka, Arturo G., Noon, GreatWolf, Sydney Freedberg, Rob MacDougall.

12/30/2005 komradebob: Getting plastic toys for games made: Moulds
I’ve been interested in games that use miniatures for ages. Cool toys were the in-road to rpgs for me many years ago. I want to know about the actual process…
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Participants: komradebob, Darcy Burgess, David Johansen, guildofblades, Ben Lehman, Troy_Costisick.

1/2/2006 Brijam: POD experiences?
Hi all- What experiences have people had with POD services?  RapidPOD looks quite reasonable. -B
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Participants: Brijam, abzu.

1/2/2006 GregStolze: Greg Stolze's Refreshing '06 Hubris
If you swing on over to http://www.gregstolze.com you can see my latest ransom project on the front page.  It's atypical: It's a pair of articles that would, in a typical…
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Participants: GregStolze, Veritas Games, Eero Tuovinen, madelf, Levi Kornelsen, Mike Sugarbaker.

1/3/2006 joepub: Understanding some printing terminology
[quote]Pick a cover... —Color Cover, perfect bound, 12pt cover stock, laminated.............. $1.00 aaaaoptional: Interior cover, color or B&W....................................... .50¢ —Color Cover, Laminated, Hardbound/Casebound.......................... $6.00 optional: Interior end sheet printing, color…
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Participants: joepub, Joshua BishopRoby, Eero Tuovinen, devilbunny, Veritas Games, Chris Passeno, MatrixGamer.

1/6/2006 sayter: The Artwork Dilemma
On the topic of core book art:     When publishing, artwork is likely a huge aspect to the printing process. If entirely digital, this becomes a non-issue in contrast…
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Participants: sayter, kregmosier, Nathan P., timfire, Veritas Games, dindenver.

1/10/2006 timfire: [The Mountain Witch] "Of Wolves & Tengu" Demo
Hi y'all, I've written a script for my 15-30 minute tMW demo. You can download it . This is demo I used at GenCon, so I know it more or…
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Participants: timfire, dindenver, jasonm, cdr, Yokiboy, Gordon C. Landis.

1/12/2006 lumpley: Dogs in the Vineyard's sales
In case anybody's interested, I've just posted a chart showing Dogs in the Vineyard's lifetime direct sales at my blog: Year-end sales chart. I welcome questions and comments, here or…
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Participants: lumpley, MatrixGamer, JakeVanDam, Thunder_God, timopod.

1/18/2006 dancross: A deal with a publisher
I've worked out a deal with a publisher where I get 40% of profits on all things sold in relation to my RPG system. I thought I had worked out…
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Participants: dancross, dindenver, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

1/19/2006 guildofblades: 2005 Guild of Blades Unit Volumes
Hi All, I see some other companies have been posting their 2005 sales figures and thought I would offer up the Guild's 2005 numbers as well. Since our accountant laid…
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Participants: guildofblades, abzu, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege.

1/23/2006 MatrixGamer: Presentation - As important as system?
The Lumpley Principle says that system matters. The rules of the game inform and shape all that follows. In my constant tinkering with Engle Matrix Games I've mused on how…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, guildofblades, komradebob, Ron Edwards, ChrisC, pells, nikola, mythusmage.

1/25/2006 dindenver: [Marketing] Looking ahead
Hi!   My book has finally gotten to a point (still needs a good edit) where I am close to publishing. Eventually, I want to sell for profit. But I…
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Participants: dindenver, daMoose_Neo, guildofblades, Matt, JakeVanDam.

1/25/2006 Bret Gillan: Format for Small Game
Hey guys. I'm considering putting my Pundits and Pollsters game on the market. It's real small, approximately 2500 words, and is a simple but fun game with simple mechanics. An…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Blankshield, nikola, abzu, CSBone.

1/27/2006 timopod: open source desktop publishing software
Hey all I'm mostly a lurker here, but I actually have something worth a post. I saw a post about free software such as open office and such. I dunno…
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Participants: timopod, MatrixGamer, jerry, Docbrown, Andrew Morris, talysman, Adam Biltcliffe, Bryan Hansel.

1/30/2006 Kevin A. Ranson: How important is an interior page background?
Having recently completed the sourcebook for Kindling Moon, it was suggested to me that having minimal graphics (header or footer) on pages that were primarily text didn't look as professional…
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Participants: Kevin A. Ranson, Matt Snyder, devilbunny, Sydney Freedberg, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Justin D. Jacobson, KeithBVaughn, MatrixGamer, nikola, andrew_kenrick.

1/30/2006 ChristopherAshe: Printer Recomendations?
We're about to go to final print with 7/13: Cycle of Existence and I was personally wondering if anyone had experience with major casebound/hardback book manufacturers in the US and…
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Participants: ChristopherAshe, Matt, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, MatrixGamer.

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