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3/12/2006 preludetotheend: Average Con?
Hello all I am preparing a busines plan and was wondering what are peoples average sales at conventions. Regards, Seth
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Participants: preludetotheend.

3/10/2006 mratomek: Perfect Bind vs. Lay-Flat Binding?
Has anyone had any good experience with a lay-flat binding vs. standard perfect binding? Advantages or disadvantages?
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Participants: mratomek, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, MatrixGamer, komradebob, Czar Fnord, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic.

3/10/2006 Ken: Trademarks and copyrights
Hi, New to forum. Nearing completion of my game and am curious about how others have gone about protecting their products. Am I just spinning my wheels without a lawyer?…
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Participants: Ken, Troy_Costisick, Brendan, Joshua BishopRoby, pells, Julian, c.

3/9/2006 daMoose_Neo: Properly citing media...
I'm assembling an assorted list of movies, TV shows, and musicians that I've found inspiring and/or thematic for my latest book. Now its been a bit since I've been through…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Andrew Morris, Troy_Costisick, KeithBVaughn.

3/5/2006 KeithBVaughn: PDFs-Advice Needed
To the Group, It looks like I'm going to be selling some PDF's of my game at a local con next month. The problem is that I'm in new territory…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Docbrown, Andrew Morris, Nathan P., btrc.

3/2/2006 talesien: Artwork question
Hey everyone. I am starting to do some research on artwork for Conquest! and I have a few ideas, but am not sure the best way to go. This game…
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Participants: talesien, Julian, c, pells, Jack Aidley, daMoose_Neo, MatrixGamer, devilbunny, Czar Fnord, Bryan Hansel, Justin D. Jacobson, Joshua BishopRoby, Emmett, Lynn, btrc.

2/24/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Web of Shadows] Packaging an Odd Game
For context, Power 19. This is a game that requires for play a pile of tokens, a holepunch, a whole lot of index cards, and lengths of…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, LordSmerf, TonyLB, abzu.

2/21/2006 Emily Care: game bling
Hello all, I've been noticing more online stores with game related products cropping up. I mean t-shirts, hats etc. Joshua just put a site up for glyphpress. (go J!) Fan…
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Participants: Emily Care, Czar Fnord, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Sydney Freedberg, talesien, abzu, inthisstyle, Clay, nikola.

2/20/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - selling content... looking for sytems
This thread is a split from How design influences many aspects... and some questions I think my product, as being setting/plot oriented, is not GNS related, so I think…
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Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen, Czar Fnord, Ron Edwards, jeremycoatney, mythusmage, btrc.

2/19/2006 tj333: Convention Gaming as Advertising
Here's the situation. A local anime convention is looking for people to be running games at it this year. They just want more games and have additional space set aside…
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Participants: tj333, TonyLB, abzu, MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, VirtualBasement, Czar Fnord.

2/18/2006 Denise: Attn Publisers: 2006 ENnie Award Submission Period now Open
Heya Forgers, Just wanted you to be amongst the first to know, we've opened up the submission period for the 2006 ENnies.  Hopefully having it open earlier than past years…
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Participants: Denise.

2/11/2006 jasonm: Crossing Over: Reaching Non-Gamers
One of the questions I raised in this thread asked about using review copies to reach groups that may be interested in your game, but are not "mainstream" gamers.  I'd…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, mythusmage.

2/10/2006 jasonm: Review Copies
[i]I posted this query over at [url=http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=135&page=1#Item_23]story-games[/url], and Ben suggested bringing the conversation here as well.  [/i] The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, knock on wood, 2-3 weeks away from sitting in a…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Andy Kitkowski, guildofblades, nikola, daMoose_Neo, Clay, Artanis, Veritas Games, abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, andrew_kenrick.

2/5/2006 preludetotheend: Fulfilling orders.
I was wondering how various people fulfill customer orders from there websites. Things like lulu, and cafe press are pretty obvious  they handle it for you. Regards, Seth
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Michael S. Miller, Troy_Costisick, Bryan Hansel.

2/2/2006 mratomek: Is ther a generic OGL license Out there
I want to publish the current game I am working on under an OGL license that would allow other people to run with it. Is there a good license out…
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Participants: mratomek, timopod, Trevis Martin, jerry, madelf, talysman, c.

1/30/2006 timopod: graphic format
i was looking over some desktop software and it suggested using a file format different then jpeg or gif for images. Tiff or even png. What is the prefer ed…
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Participants: timopod, MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, jerry, nikola, Clay, Jeff_DUG, Troy_Costisick, Kevin A. Ranson.

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.

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.

1/27/2006 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.

1/25/2006 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.

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3/14/2006 abzu: BW Sales and Income
Hi All, A long time ago, I promised to post my sales data and I never did. So here it is at long last! Between May 5th and December 31st…
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Participants: abzu, JakeVanDam, Bryan Hansel, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud.

3/16/2006 jrs: Comic on copyright law
I came across this today-- "Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW".  (Free as a digital version, available for purchase in print.)  It's primary focus is copyright and fair…
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Participants: jrs, Technocrat13.

3/17/2006 Emmett: Web promotion
*sigh* I wish there was a good way to get an RPG known. I know that I usually don't have time to play any of the other titles out there…
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Participants: Emmett, Ron Edwards, anders_larsen, JakeVanDam, Julian, Selene Tan, sean2099, Ben Lehman.

3/18/2006 btrc: Origins Awards first?
Don't know if it's a gaming first or not, but my Infinite Armies game has just been nominated for a 2006 Origins Award (Vanguard category). This is a "publishing" note…
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Participants: btrc, Ron Edwards, abzu, Michael S. Miller.

3/19/2006 Ken: POD vs. Distributors
Hey Everybody, I'm (hopefully) a few months short of publishing my first rpg (a superhero game). The Forge has been an incredible resource and has allowed me to focus my…
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Participants: Ken, TonyLB, c, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Michael S. Miller, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/19/2006 Ken: Alliance Distributors
HI, This is kind of follow up to my other post. I talked to my local comic book shop owner (here in Virginia) the other day to find out which…
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Participants: Ken, daMoose_Neo.

3/20/2006 preludetotheend: Coptic Binding and size
Hello all Ihave been playing around with the idea of self binding my books using the coptic sewing method as it produces some very wonderful results. If you have not…
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Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Czar Fnord.

3/21/2006 Dantai: [Contenders] Ronny winner published
Hey everyone, Just a quickie to say that after months of procrastination, I've bitten the bullet and published Contenders in pdf format. I've managed to get it out in time…
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Participants: Dantai, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Malcolm.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Errors and errata
Hey all, I'd like to hear from those of you who have published about your experience with errors.  We've found six in The Roach so far, including two that could…
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Participants: jasonm, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, jeremycoatney, abzu, Matt, Czar Fnord.

3/30/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Wikimedia Commons -- Free Art Motherlode
God damn do I love the wikifolk.  When the wikifolk finally buy out Google or the other way around, we will acheive the information apocalypse, I swear. I found the…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Bryan Hansel, jerry, Nathan P., jasonm.

4/4/2006 MatrixGamer: Manufacturing cardboard counters
I'd like to hear people's experiences with making cardboard counters. I'm move Engle Matrix Games into a folio format. The game comes in a hardback cover (color and glossy) with…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Gaerik, Czar Fnord, guildofblades, Veritas Games.

4/6/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Redefining publishing of content
I'm still in preparation of my teaser, which I should be able to present in about two weeks. While preparing the related post, I came across this interesting conversation in…
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Participants: pells, Clay, Jake Richmond.

4/12/2006 Tony Irwin: Shoujo Story Cover Art
Hi I've been able to go from this: http://www.apricot-ink.co.uk/shoujostory.pdf to this mock-up here: http://www.apricot-ink.co.uk/123421_cover.pdf Once I recolour the woman on the back cover (want more of a water color thing…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski, Keith Senkowski, Adam, MatrixGamer, Thunder_God, ejh, Shreyas Sampat, Selene Tan.

4/12/2006 Offray: Roleplaying, Free Software & Content and Libre Culture
Hi all, This is my first post here, so let me say thanks for this site and make a hoping not so long introduction. I have enjoyed a lot with…
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Participants: Offray, Miskatonic, contracycle, Dev, jerry, Ben Lehman, talysman, guildofblades, axonrg, Julian.

4/13/2006 Smithy: What software does the aspiring publisher need?
Flush with enthusiasm from Game Chef, I've decided it's time to gather the items I need to get my designs laid out and publishable in PDF or book form. That…
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Participants: Smithy, dindenver, MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Blankshield, c, talysman.

4/13/2006 lesbianvampyre: Name for Company
I'm trying to think of a name for my comic book and role-playing game publishing company and I could use some help. Which sounds better Parallel Universe Press, Parallel Universe…
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Participants: lesbianvampyre, Ron Edwards, cpeterso, Sydney Freedberg, guildofblades, Thunder_God, Czar Fnord, Dav, LloydBrown, Jake Richmond, Tully305, Zahtevnik.

4/15/2006 Del: Rogue - Big market void for sci-fi?
Marketability question. Thick hardcover of a generic sci-fi rpg. Everything from planets new to space travel, "cyberpunk" developed planets, and galactic empires. Provided settings within the game line. Worth working…
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Participants: Del, Blankshield, Biggles, Justin D. Jacobson, Joshua BishopRoby, b_bankhead, Emmett, nikola, Ron Edwards, Clay, btrc.

4/16/2006 MarktheAnimator: Publishing in Thailand
Hello, I've been away for quite a long time, but I just wanted to say hello again to everyone. My game, Fantasy Imperium is nearly ready for press. I just…
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Participants: MarktheAnimator, Thunder_God, Bryan Hansel, MatrixGamer, Justin D. Jacobson, Joshua BishopRoby, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, jeremycoatney.

4/17/2006 Michael S. Miller: Books in retail stores--Buy now or buy later?
Over in a WGP... Actual Play thread, the ever-inciteful John Kim asked the following: One thing that I sometimes feel funny about -- if the store only has one…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, inthisstyle, c, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2006 GregStolze: REIGN's release model: A ransom/hard copy hybrid
It's interesting that the quarterly sales of UA continue to chip in a hundred copies of the core book every time.  It seems to support the theory that "the MRB…
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Participants: GregStolze, Paka, c, Dav, Thunder_God, MikeSands, Ben Lehman, jasonm, andrew_kenrick, Nathan Herrold, Yokiboy.

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