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7/5/2006 c: Small production methods for making cards.
So after reading this closed post about printing cards in small runs I thought some info I just gained from a card and board gaming buddy might be useful…
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Participants: c, daMoose_Neo, Veritas Games, Adam SBG, Thomas D, andrew_kenrick, Tony Irwin.

7/3/2006 Norbert Matausch: A slightly used game idea (split)
Hi Kat, Into the Mystic sounds really great. Like all the Everway goodness, plus some narration rights. Cool, gotta love it. My question is: Why do you use a (more…
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Participants: Norbert Matausch, Ron Edwards.

6/30/2006 Editor Drew: Intellecutal rights to product, ancillaries, future editions
One of the other posters in a closed thread mentioned that he had been approached by a publishing company and offered a percentage of the revenue generated from the sales…
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Participants: Editor Drew, lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby.

6/29/2006 c: Box Sets
I tried doing some searching for previous threads and didn't find anything that answered my questions, so.... What do we know about box sets? In my experience there are typically…
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Participants: c, abzu, jasonm.

6/28/2006 contracycle: Women lead rush to mobile gaming
[quote][b]Women lead rush to mobile gaming[/b] The casual nature of mobile games appeals to women.  Women players are responsible for two-thirds of the sales of mobile phone games, a US…
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Participants: contracycle.

6/27/2006 jasonm: Horizontal format books
I know printers don't care which edge they bind on, making horizontal layout books possible - but are they a good idea? I'm specifically thinking about a digest-sized book perfect…
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Participants: jasonm, jrs, Czar Fnord, pells, MatrixGamer, Eero Tuovinen, amicitia, Editor Drew, nikola.

6/26/2006 Denise: 2006 ENnie Awards Fans' Choice Nominations Open
Hi Forgers, I don't want to use this space for announcements, but I really really wanted to make sure you guys were aware of this, and could voice your opinions. …
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Participants: Denise.

6/21/2006 lesbianvampyre: Re: Name for Company (split)
I did some digging around on the Internet and discovered there are two other people using Parallel Universe and there is another Parallel Universe Publishing. I would like to keep…
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Participants: lesbianvampyre, Ron Edwards.

6/20/2006 daMoose_Neo: InDesign 2.0 - Bookmarks, HELP!
I've been over and over this one and I'm tearing my hair out. Figured with it being layout, this was the best place to ask: is anyone here familiar with…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Czar Fnord.

6/16/2006 lumpley: Mongoose contacted me
Matthew Sprange wrote me a little while back, offering to publish Dogs in the Vineyard under a new imprint that Mongoose is launching (or considering launching). I'd keep intellectual property…
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Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Vaxalon, Andy Kitkowski, Pelgrane, Wart, Thunder_God, Adam Dray, abzu, nikola, Paul Czege, komradebob, Jake Richmond, David Chunn, Ron Edwards.

6/15/2006 Skallagrim: Presentation - As important as system? (split)
hello all, a long time lurker here.. Well speaking strictly from a consumer point of view (as most of my ideas continue to die in conceptualization stages)... This may seem…
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Participants: Skallagrim, Miedvied, Ron Edwards.

6/14/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: What is the function of the Back Cover?
For purposes of analysis both general and specific, following is the draft of my back cover text for Passages. Lose Yourself in a Good Book! Through the Looking Glass…
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Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, devilbunny, jerry, Nathan P., Valamir, Czar Fnord, Joshua BishopRoby, sean2099, joepub, Ron Edwards, Jake Richmond, Editor Drew, nikola, slade the sniper, KeithBVaughn.

6/12/2006 Willow: Pricing & Demand Curves
I was going back through old threads and wanted to respond to something I saw here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17728.0 While it is a very good look into the basics of pricing, there…
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Participants: Willow, lumpley, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards.

6/12/2006 phetish: looking for card POD
hey folks... i'm looking for a Print on Demand (POD) company to make cards.  my cards need to be somewhat larger than playing card size, something on the order of…
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Participants: phetish, btrc, Czar Fnord, Paul Czege, joepub, AvalonPOD, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, daMoose_Neo, nikola, kenw.

6/11/2006 netojose: German printing quality
Dear All, Anyone here would know how the Germans achieve their print quality while printing board games? The paper usually has a linen texture and is varnish. Would anyone know…
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Participants: netojose, Joshua BishopRoby.

6/6/2006 MatrixGamer: In House production for the upcoming convention season.
I want to describe what I'm doing this year for production so people who do in house production or are interested in that can see one way of doing it.…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, philreed, komradebob.

6/1/2006 Eero Tuovinen: European fulfilment
Concerning the Essen thread, I've discussed the practicalities of mailing games to Europe with a couple of publishers. It's not cheap to ship to Europe, as I know from personal…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

6/1/2006 preludetotheend: Alternatives to selling your material.
    Good day all I have been slowly finishing up work on my game and setting Reflections, and have been thinking of how I want to publish my game.…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God.

5/28/2006 abzu: The Truth is Out There
From Ken Hite's latest Out of the Box essay. http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=190 Now for a little silver lining. One advantage that we have in the RPG market is that our customers --…
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Participants: abzu, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Ron Edwards, btrc.

5/28/2006 Denise: ENnie Awards- Indy Titles Wanted!
Hey all, I've just been going through the list of submissions for this year's Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (the ENnies), and am noticing a distinct lack of Forge…
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Participants: Denise, Thunder_God, Ben Lehman, jasonm, abzu, greyorm, btrc, Dav, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Thor Olavsrud, andrew_kenrick, chadu, woodelf.

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7/8/2006 copx: How much "inspiration" is legal?
Can I sell something if the mechanics are mostly taken from other (commercial) RPGs? The rules of my game are a crossbreed of WFRP 1st Edition, Inquisitor and my own…
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Participants: copx, Kesher, Valamir, Bill Masek, jerry, Gasten, Veritas Games, Ron Edwards, baron samedi, Thunder_God, Justin D. Jacobson.

7/8/2006 timfire: Kwaidan---companion fiction for tMW
Hi everyone, I'm putting together a companion book for The Mountain Witch---"Kwadain: Tales from Ghostly Japan". The will be a collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories, compiled from the books…
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Participants: timfire, jasonm, Thunder_God.

7/8/2006 sean2099: (art) taste in cover questions?
Hi all, I know that I have some work to do on Divinity before it gets published but I was browsing at Clipart.com and I found some images...(imagine that).  Anyway,…
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Participants: sean2099, Clay, Thunder_God, Jake Richmond, baron samedi, c, Justin D. Jacobson, Ron Edwards.

7/9/2006 mindwanders: Is designing an RPG gateway game a bad plan?
I'm playing about with what path to follow for publishing/marketing my game. The principles all seem to be pretty simple and should be usable to people with no roleplaying experience.…
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Participants: mindwanders, philreed, guildofblades, Justin D. Jacobson, komradebob, slade the sniper.

7/11/2006 andrew_kenrick: The merits of fulfillment houses
I'm toying with the idea of signing up to Indie Press Revolution, but am wondering if it's worth it? I mean, we already do business with Key20, so would we…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, timfire, Justin D. Jacobson, Thor Olavsrud, Nathan P..

7/13/2006 jrs: Copyright resources
Earlier Ron mentioned his interest in a post that consolidates links to copyright resources, see Regarding copyright and intellectual property.  I've taken it upon myself to compile such a post…
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Participants: jrs, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, axonrg, Tzu-Theory, Dosoga, Ron Edwards, Selene Tan.

7/13/2006 Zach: [Layout] Character creation in the front of the book
Good day, Experience has taught me that it is poor idea to use a term in a book and then define it several chapters later. However after reading Truth and…
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Participants: Zach, jerry, joepub, Czar Fnord, Mcrow, Certified, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

7/17/2006 timfire: Traditional Printing--Color
Hi everyone, As some of you may know or may have guessed, the color illustrations in The Mountain Witch are expensive to print with a POD printer. Lately I've been…
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Participants: timfire, Valamir, MatrixGamer, Matt Wilson, abzu, andrew_kenrick.

7/19/2006 thwaak: What qualifies as Creator Owned?
Just a quick question about definitions. I'm currently writing a setting book for Savage Worlds by PEG. Under the agreement, I'm paid a lump sum, and retain all rights to…
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Participants: thwaak, Joshua BishopRoby, Blankshield.

7/19/2006 jasonm: The Drowning and Falling Report
I wanted to share the specifics of our most recent game, Drowning and Falling, which will hit IPR in about a week.  The genesis of the game was an off-hand…
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Participants: jasonm.

7/21/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] From Concept to Product
Crossposted from my blog. The story of Mortal Coil begins quite some time ago, back before I had published The Legend of Yore. In those days, we were playing a…
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Participants: inthisstyle, jasonm, joewolz.

7/21/2006 iconoplast: [FLGS] Getting Indie games stocked?
So, I downloaded the PDFs of two games written by posters here.  Read them, even played one.  Went to my game store, and asked them to order me a copy. …
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Participants: iconoplast, TonyLB, Valamir, Nathan P., Paul Czege, Justin D. Jacobson, LloydBrown, Ron Edwards, andrew_kenrick, Blankshield.

7/22/2006 Troy_Costisick: GenCon 2006 Booth Menu Draft and Redraft
Heya, I thought I'd post this here so that there's no confusion with the other thread in conventions.  Okay, here we go.  I've posted the first draft of the Menu…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Iskander, c, Nathan P., Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Blankshield, abzu, timfire, Matt Wilson, jasonm, Paka, Justin D. Jacobson, Kevin Allen Jr, Thunder_God, joepub, Paul Czege, Matt, Malcolm, LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton, John Harper, Denise, Keith Senkowski, nikola, btrc, Matt Snyder, Thor Olavsrud, iago, Emily Care, lumpley.

7/23/2006 c: Getting design info from your website?
I was looking at my stats for my website, this morning, via a service called Awstats which is provided by my shared hosting company. I like to check from time…
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Participants: c.

7/23/2006 thwaak: Does (Book) Size Matter?
Hello All, Recently into the whole indie RPG thing, I perhaps went overboard and bought a ton of games (Burning Wheel, Capes, Cat, Don't Rest Your Head, The Mountain Witch,…
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Participants: thwaak, andrew_kenrick, jasonm, timfire, Jake Richmond, Justin D. Jacobson, abzu, Valamir, Thunder_God, Czar Fnord, baron samedi, Zach, Steven Stewart.

7/23/2006 timfire: "Mexican Standoff" Print edition for GenCon
Having noticed my listing for "Mexican Standoff" in my product-list for GenCon, Guy Shalev asked: So it's now more than the one-page thingy which was posted on IPR? Not really---though…
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Participants: timfire, Emily Care.

7/24/2006 Revontuli: Star Wreck Roleplaying Game
We're putting a Finnish roleplaying game out in English. It's based on the Star Wreck line of sci-fi parody movies, and will be published in August of this year. It's…
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Participants: Revontuli, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2006 slade the sniper: Finishing Touches on a new Game (well now what?)
[color=Blue][u][b]BLUF[/b]: [/u] I need art and advice on completing a game that is 75% to 90% done, but no art and no strategy for distribution or a final plan on…
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Participants: slade the sniper, daMoose_Neo, Nathan P., btrc, abzu, Valamir, MatrixGamer.

7/25/2006 Jonathan Walton: Push is for sale, baby!
I am very pleased to announce (having just recieved the final, beautiful copies from the UPS man) that Push vol 1 is now available.  Copies can be purchase from the…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, jasonm.

7/25/2006 slade the sniper: A few questions on overall design of a new game
Greetings, I have made my first post in the Connections area and have gotten quite a bit of useful feedback so far, but I am now on a different track.…
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Participants: slade the sniper, Willow, MatrixGamer, Selene Tan, Jake Richmond.

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