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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.

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.

4/16/2002 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.

4/16/2002 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.

4/15/2002 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.

4/12/2002 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.

4/11/2002 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.

4/9/2002 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.

4/3/2002 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.

4/3/2002 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 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.

4/2/2002 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.

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.

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.

3/22/2002 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.

3/22/2002 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.

3/21/2002 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.

3/18/2002 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.

3/18/2002 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.

3/17/2002 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.

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4/27/2002 Ron Edwards: Stores and sales - what helps and what doesn't
Hi there, A couple of unpleasant anecdotes have surfaced in this thread in the Sorcerer forum. I am seeing a very marked dichotomy across stores in terms of Sorcerer, one…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell, Matt Gwinn, Le Joueur, Clay, JSDiamond.

4/30/2002 Matt Snyder: Electronic publishing redux
After many late hours, I finally finished laying out Cartoon Action Hour and it's now available as a PDF download{/url] for $10. The PDF is thick by most standards…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Nathan, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Michael Hopcroft.

5/1/2002 sdemory: ANNOUNCEMENT: Arise and walk
Not exactly sure where this should go, so I'll rest assured that Mr. Nixon will eliminate it before it's too much of a hassle. Thanks to the efforts of the…
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Participants: sdemory, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

5/1/2002 Matt Gwinn: Getting Down to "Business"
Well, as Gencon approaches and I prepare to send Kayfabe to press I thought I should clear up a few things before I end up screwing myself. At what point…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Clay, Seth L. Blumberg.

5/3/2002 Laurel: Looking at the new Mall
http://mall.rpg.net/faq/merchantfaq.phtml Folks with previous experience selling downloads? How do the new RPGNet Mall Merchant terms compare to other services you've used, including hosting everything yourself and going through Paypal? The…
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Participants: Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Valamir, Matt Gwinn, Jack Spencer Jr, Emily_Dresner, Matt, Tim Gray, GMSkarka.

5/4/2002 sdemory: Problems with PDFs
Hey, all, Having recently put my game out for public purchase (www.memento-mori.com/lmm ), I'm having some difficulties with PDF delivery. My PDF's about 3.4 megs, which is too large for…
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Participants: sdemory, Ferry Bazelmans, Chris Passeno, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, Tim Gray.

5/6/2002 Nathan: Next Project: Interactive Format
Alright, I don't remember if we've talked about this or not -- I have another game that is taking shape in the wing of my head cavity called The Cross.…
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Participants: Nathan, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, rafael.

5/9/2002 Sidhain: Help! Help!
The publisher who was supposed to produce several of my works (and was under contract to do so) has basically defaulted--no money changed hands, and my property of course remains…
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Participants: Sidhain, Ron Edwards, Misguided Games, Michael Hopcroft.

5/14/2002 xiombarg: Vanity Publishers?
Okay, in this thread, someone talks about http://www.goldenpillarpublishing.com/... Now, I have to admit that ever since I first heard about it, my thought was: "What the f*$%? What is this,…
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Participants: xiombarg, Michael Hopcroft, Jerry D. Grayson.

5/14/2002 jburneko: Percieved Validity
Hello All, I don't often post in this forum but there's something that's been on my mind about the public perception of indie published games. Before I started coming to…
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Participants: jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr.

5/14/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Introducing Myself
Hi there! Cynthia Celeste Miller of Spectrum Game Studios pointed me here, and I thought I'd introduce myself seeing as I can;t find a better place to do so. MY…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

5/15/2002 Ron Edwards: All RPG book publishers take note
Hello, This message is for those of us who publish, or are about to publish, an RPG intended to be available in retail stores. I strongly recommend that company websites…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/17/2002 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon
It's big, to the point of almostg ebing bloated. It has that huge castle in the middle of the dealers room. But GenCon is still THE big RPG show and…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Book Size?
My manuscript has finally gotten to its near-finished state of about 50,000 words. My typesetter just suggested printing at 6x9 instead of 8.5x11 like most RPG books becaue of the…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clay, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2002 Bailey: Viability of E-mail at the beginning
Right now I'm putting the final touches on Men of Teak's text, but am lacking in art and a decent layout program. What I want to know is if Ron's…
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Participants: Bailey, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Nathan.

5/21/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Confidence
Since Clinton suggested answering this question in another thread, I'm, starting one. Why do gamers often seem to have such low self-confience, particularly potential RPG publishers? I know that in…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clay, Ron Edwards, Tim Gray, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jake Norwood.

5/25/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002 - update & policy
Hello, Jason and I have spent some time hammering out these points and procedures. I know some of them are different from what we said before, but we hit a…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson, Seth L. Blumberg, woodelf, Nathan.

5/28/2002 Evan Waters: Licensed names/products
But suppose such a game were freeware, say on the web- technically that's still not legal, but I feel such a thing is ethically defensible, and it doesn't seem like…
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Participants: Evan Waters, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Valamir, Buddha Nature.

5/30/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Avoiding the Retail Channel
Having just got off the phone with one of the main providers to the retail channel, it became apparent that he would want me to brint at least 3,000 copies…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

5/30/2002 Paganini: Marketing
So, the publisher for my cinematic action game was the same as Sidhain's and I've got a bunch of comments and reports and an unedited manuscript sitting around on my…
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Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, Michael Hopcroft.

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