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11/23/2006 joepub: A List of POD Publishers
Okay, here's the deal: I have a printer I use, Avalon. But... maybe Avalon isn't my best possible choice. I don't really know, because I have a weak handle on…
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Participants: joepub, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Jake Richmond.

11/22/2006 nikola: Alphagraphics (formerly RPI) negative experiences
Alphagraphics has been doing some serious ball-dropping with reprinting Shock: I was pretty happy with where we were at before, when they were RPI. I thought a reprint would be…
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Participants: nikola, jasonm, Ron Edwards, segedy, iago, Sane, MatrixGamer.

11/17/2006 MatrixGamer: Cartoon version Engle Matrix Game rules PDF available on RPGnow
This post serves two functions. 1. It lets people know that a free PDF version of the Engle Matrix Game rules are available on RPGnow. That is important. It's marketing.…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, daMoose_Neo, Valamir.

11/15/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: "Generic" vs. "Multi-Genre"
You've probably noticed that there aren't any "used" cars anymore. They're all "pre-owned." This trend was started by the upscale car companies to combat the negative connotation associated with the…
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Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, StefanS, daMoose_Neo, David Artman, Joshua BishopRoby, Nathan P., nystul, jeremycoatney.

11/14/2006 jrs: Piracy Paradox
Hi folks, I thought about adding this link to the Copyright Resources sticky, but it isn't really a resource -- just interesting.  The paper, The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual…
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Participants: jrs, Jake Richmond.

11/14/2006 MarktheAnimator: Marketing to the Military
Hey, is there a marketing section on the site?  I haven't seen one.... so I'll post this here. I'm interested in selling products thru the military px system.  Does anyone…
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Participants: MarktheAnimator, JasonPalenske, guildofblades, David Artman.

11/9/2006 GregStolze: Ransom Method: Follow the Money
Per Ron's request, I'm starting a new Ransom Method thread.  Here goes. MBM: Full ransom was met, so I split the cash between myself and Dan Solis.  (I'd paid Thomas…
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Participants: GregStolze, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman, gobi, sean2099, daMoose_Neo, joepub.

11/2/2006 David C: Gameplay terms - safe or dangerous on ground of copyright
As I write my rules, I find myself using terms like 'saving throw' 'DC' and 'skill check.' Then I find myself wondering, with increasing frequency, am I stepping on thin…
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Participants: David C, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Lehman, Justin D. Jacobson, jerry, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2006 bilros02: Help with ideas on Advertising
Hey guys, I need a little advice on how to advertise my game systems on the net. Ive already gotten the manuals for my games written (Two of them anyway),…
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Participants: bilros02, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, abzu, sean2099, rafael.

10/28/2006 Mark: Regarding the planned publisher rate increase
Regarding the planned publisher rate increase by OBS (formed by the merger of RPGNow.com and DTRPG) - "With the possibility of price hikes, I believe that both vendors and consumers…
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Participants: Mark, Narf the Mouse, daMoose_Neo, dindenver.

10/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: Having Trouble with Pagemaker 7
Heya guys, I'm having some real trouble with my Pagemaker software.  I've got my games layed out in the regular pmd format and they look great.  I print them on…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer, David Artman.

10/26/2006 Matt Snyder: Express Media aftermath, anyone?
My understanding is that Express Media dissolved over the summer, after I last dealt with them for Nine Worlds printing. I need to print up some more books. My contact…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Valamir, Jake Richmond, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2006 Pelgrane: Distribution Data
I'm looking for data from publishers who have swtiched from a pure direct sales model to a mixed direct/retail/distributor model. Ignore any cut that IPR, Key20 or other similar organisation…
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Participants: Pelgrane, daMoose_Neo.

10/25/2006 daMoose_Neo: Anyone with InDesign able to do an export for me?
I'm wrapping up work on a little book, but its enough I want bookmarks for the PDF. My InDesign 2.0 is acting up though and I'm not getting any text…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, iago, David Artman, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2006 Jake Richmond: Theft
Is PDF sharing a problem you are concerned about? I wasn't until recently. In the last few weeks sales of the Panty Explosion PDF have dropped from about 3 copies…
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Participants: Jake Richmond, JakeVanDam, Joshua BishopRoby, daMoose_Neo, Wolfen, c, timfire, David Artman, pigames, Yokiboy, Peter_Hollinghurst, Steven Stewart, Ken, Ron Edwards, andrew_kenrick, David C, demiurgeastaroth, GregStolze, greyorm.

10/21/2006 daMoose_Neo: Halloween Upcoming- Anyone doing anything to promote your titles?
Last year I did a little something fun: I handed out cards from my dark fantasy game Final Twilights to older trick-or-treaters in my community. Posted about it on the…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Jake Richmond, andrew_kenrick.

10/20/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Thoughts on promotion
A very late follow-up from this thread, I am now ready to begin the promotion of Avalanche. At my disposal, I have those tools : an english and a french…
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Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen.

10/19/2006 Pelgrane: Call of Cthulhu survey
Pelgrane are doing a new version of Call of Cthulhu under license, and we've done a survey to get some idea of what people want. This data should be taken…
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Participants: Pelgrane.

10/12/2006 c: Help me to sell your games.
This past Weekend, myself and my two other regular group members, went to a local convention in Oshkosh Wisconsin, called oddly enough Osh Con. *grins* Tim and myself came to…
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Participants: c, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Justin D. Jacobson, Joshua BishopRoby, Jake Richmond, timfire, Blankshield, Adam SBG.

10/4/2006 Andy Kitkowski: "Top 10 Lies told to Designers" (for the freelancers out there)
I saw this from a post at www.lifehacker.com , and while it's simple and we've seen or heard of most of them, there may be a couple that you can…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Justin D. Jacobson, Paul Czege, Joshua BishopRoby, Jake Richmond, greyorm, Steven Stewart, Clay, Editor Drew, Brand_Robins, Narf the Mouse, MikeRM.

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11/29/2006 jasonm: Alphagraphics and card printing
Hey all, Just an update on Bully Pulpit Games and card printing - for The Roach we have a little deck of 40 cards that ship with the book, and…
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Participants: jasonm, segedy, nikola, Troy_Costisick, Mike Sugarbaker, iain, daMoose_Neo.

12/2/2006 Thunder_God: Embedding Fonts in Open-Office.
Simply, as the title says, how do I do that?
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Participants: Thunder_God, Miskatonic.

12/6/2006 guildofblades: Drop Shipping
Hi Everyone, On the topic of marketing and sales channels, has anyone else here considered setting up drop shipping terms for retailers? I've been hanging around a number of business…
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Participants: guildofblades, Troy_Costisick, Justin D. Jacobson, timfire, c, johnwedd, Mcrow.

12/6/2006 mratomek: Cost Comparison
Would consumers be more interested in an adventure with 16 pages of full color for $9.99 or  40 B&W pages for the same price. Just curious what everyone thinks.
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Participants: mratomek, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, nystul.

12/7/2006 leonidas300: Of the history of Crimson... err Cursed Empire!
Dear members, Here is what I hope will be an interested story of how Cursed Empire came to be and to share my own personal experiences of indie game publishing…
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Participants: leonidas300, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Ayrk.

12/13/2006 timfire: A possibe avenue for distributing AP recordings
A while ago I stumbled onto music.download.com. It's a cool site with a ton of free mp3's. Today I was glancing at their Spoken Word/ Story-telling section and thought, "Hey,…
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Participants: timfire, Bryan Hansel.

12/13/2006 jasonm: Indexing
Hey friends, My next game is going to need an index.  Please give me advice on how to make that happen - can we leverage the tools in InDesign to…
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Participants: jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, nystul, segedy, David Artman, GreatWolf, MatrixGamer, abzu, selvi.

12/15/2006 Leviathan: Multiple Character Sheets in the Core book of a game
Since joining this site, I have been reading a great deal of the older postings from many of the various areas of the Forum. Many ideas have occurred in these…
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Participants: Leviathan, Giacomo, nystul, David Artman, Justin D. Jacobson, btrc.

12/16/2006 selvi: Help me in index creation for long documents...
Hi.. While creating index for a book, is there any way to create a index for only one chapter and taking all the entries to the remaining chapters like appending.…
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Participants: selvi, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/19/2006 Giacomo: Re: Copyright resources
Actually, no its not.  It will not replace a copyright, but will serve to establish a date stamp for your work.  You will still need to get a regular copyright. …
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Participants: Giacomo, jerry, Ron Edwards.

12/19/2006 Giacomo: Re: Copyright resources
When all else fails, there is always the "poor man's copyright":  mail yourself a copy of your product...don't open it when you receive it.  The post mark on envelope will…
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Participants: Giacomo, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

12/28/2006 Kesher: [hypersites] A superfast way to get a site up and running
Here's the link: <a href="http://hypersites.com/site/page/pg1-pn_SaaS_Website_Development_with_a_Browser_HyperSites.html">hypersites</a> Superfast, superslick way to get a website going, with a broad array of options, including hosting, commercial or not, all for <b>free</b> (at least at…
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Participants: Kesher, Clay, xenopulse, David Artman.

1/2/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Periodical RPG Model] DL-Quarterly initial reflections
Heya, Well the first issue of DL-Quarterly, Cutthroat, went out on December 30th and the PDFs were sent out the next day.  Despite numerous delays from my printer, I was…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, jeremycoatney, Sane, pells, Graham Walmsley, preludetotheend.

1/6/2007 WyldKarde: E-publishing
I figured I would ask those who had come and gone before me, what steps would I take in setting up PDF downloads for paypal payments?  I'm growing my studio…
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Participants: WyldKarde, andrew_kenrick, iago, Ron Edwards, Nathan, Paul Czege, Trevis Martin, Jake Richmond, Mcrow, Adam SBG.

1/8/2007 sean2099: Taking the Publishing Plunge (with some questions)
Well Folks, I have actually taken most of the steps to getting Divinity published.  This is probably self-evident to most of you.  It has been an enlightening experience, that's for…
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Participants: sean2099, jerry, Troy_Costisick, anders_larsen, Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Richmond, JustinB, xenopulse.

1/10/2007 preludetotheend: CafePress.com vs. LuLu pros and cons
So I have decided to do a little comparison of <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/?pid=3720558">Cafe Press</a> and <a href="http://www.LuLu.com">LuLu</a> to point out some pros and cons I have been pondering and get some…
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Participants: preludetotheend, iago, Clinton R. Nixon, JoystickJunkies, xenopulse.

1/17/2007 zoom: Copyright resources / UK
Hi there I'm new to this forum, but I have been playing RPG's for the last 15 years. I have built 3 gaming systems in that time and was very…
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Participants: zoom, Ron Edwards.

1/14/2007 Charrua: "Generic" vs. "Multi-Genre" II (split)
A thought I'd like to contribute: Semantically speaking, if your system is settlingless, it cannot be simultaneously multi-genre.  Something cannot ne everything and nothing at the same time (without cheating,…
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Participants: Charrua, Sane, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

1/26/2007 Paul Czege: Games Quarterly Catalog 62: The Great Purge
So, I've had Half Meme Press and <i>My Life with Master</i> in Games Quarterly Catalog since late 2004, using just the no-cost mini-listing. And I'm fairly certain that not a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Justin D. Jacobson, Jake Richmond, guildofblades.

1/31/2007 Andy Kitkowski: Quick Guides to Incorporation?
Hey all. It's come to my attention that for this RPG project I'm working on, it's better to go for 'incorporation'* so that if troubles occur, it's the "company" at…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, JakeVanDam, Ron Edwards, Justin D. Jacobson, guildofblades.

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