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5/26/2007 C.W.Richeson: Dos and Don'ts of Online Marketing - Cost effective ways to share your product.
I'm writing up a short article on resources available to small press publishers for online marketing and I'd like to hear from publishers on this topic.  What has, and has…
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Participants: C.W.Richeson, Valamir, jasonm.

5/24/2007 RobNJ: Playmat
So, for Misspent Youth, I have developed a playmat which contains pretty much all the conflict resolution rules in a very convenient way. It's got this nice parabola, squares to…
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Participants: RobNJ, GregStolze, Darcy Burgess, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, abzu, David Artman.

5/20/2007 preludetotheend: Kewl books worth it?
Aside from a lulu pod version I was thinking of creating a line of hand made books with a couple things in mind. 1. The "cheap ass effect" in which…
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Participants: preludetotheend, GregStolze, Ron Edwards, C.W.Richeson, MatrixGamer, Dosoga, timfire, woodelf.

5/19/2007 Dantai: [Piledrivers & Powerbombs] Chokeslam of Darkness edition PDF on IPR
Hi all Well, it's been one hell of a publishing journey from back in 2005 when I first penned Piledrivers & Powerbombs as a 24hr RPG. It was originally published…
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Participants: Dantai, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2007 kenw: Rapid POD to open its Publishing Doors This June
Would you like to set back and just design games for a living?  Would you like someone else to spend their money on printing, advertising and promoting your games.  Would…
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Participants: kenw, Ron Edwards.

5/11/2007 guildofblades: Hard Backs...Sort of?
Hi Everyone, We have a new production option we might be able to use on future game books here at the Guild but its a bit unusual so I thought…
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Participants: guildofblades, jasonm, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, MatrixGamer, iago, madelf, David Artman.

5/11/2007 MatrixGamer: Dead Man on Campus Engle Matrix Game released
If you like Call of Cthulhu you'll love this game. Dead Man on Campus is the fourth folio EMG released this year by Hamster Press. This time the games centers…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

5/10/2007 chris_moore: Ashcans for Dummies?
My buddy Michael and I want to make an ashcan of our game, psi run, for this year's Gen Con. Only, we know less that jack squat about this process.…
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Participants: chris_moore, jasonm, c, timfire, lumpley.

5/10/2007 jasonm: Minibooks
(cross-posted over at Story Games) I was reading a book about making zines (yeah, irony) and one of the formats it talked about was the minibook, a 32 page zine…
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Participants: jasonm, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Thenomain, David Artman, Adam SBG, Grumpy, brainwipe, HighmoonMedia.

5/4/2007 Peter Nordstrand: Playingcardsonly/playingcardsindia
Hi there! Long time no see. I've been preoccupied with ... things. Nevermind. Here's the question Have any of you used, or considered using, playingcardsindia.com (apparently they are the same…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, cambridgegames, Thenomain, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, darnest.

5/4/2007 JustinB: Marketing: Reviews and Reviewers
Let's put together a semi-comprehensive list of places and people that a new game should be reviewed by. If this has already been done and I missed it in my…
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Participants: JustinB, Levi Kornelsen, Matt Wilson, iago, C.W.Richeson.

5/1/2007 gds: Re: Playtesting - Investment versus Payback
Hi All, Sorry for the blank first post. My PC threw a benny. So I've been reading a few of the other threads, and been noting the comments about playtesting…
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Participants: gds, nikola, Pelgrane, Valamir, woodelf, Channelm, TwoCrows.

4/28/2007 Thunder_God: [Half-Baked Spin-off] How Does the Book Carry a Message?
In the original thread, Ron said the following: Shock as a game is the only science fiction RPG ever published. It's innovative, fun, and powerful. Shock as a book is…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, C.W.Richeson, jasonm, matthijs.

4/30/2007 Matt Wilson: Re: print quantity as benchmark for fully baked games
[i]Whoa, hey, that was weird. I was all, how come no one's responding to my thread, and Ben PM's me and says, you have a post up with no content…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Pelgrane, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jake Richmond.

4/27/2007 abzu: FORGE GAMA
I spent Sunday to Thursday in Las Vegas at GAMA. Overall, the show is small and sedate compared to Gencon and even Origins. GAMA is a "trade show" for RPGs,…
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Participants: abzu, jasonm, jdrakeh, Matt Wilson, Jake Richmond, inthisstyle, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, iago, Pelgrane, AngusA.

4/27/2007 MatrixGamer: Blast from the past: The longevity of web pages
I've just had a Matrix Gamer in England join my yahoo MG group who has been playing MGs since the late 90's. He came across the rules that were posted…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/27/2007 preludetotheend: Diversifying?
So my question is in a nutshell have any developers out there taken the steps to get their game on any platforms other than rpg? I mean obviously this would…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Jake Richmond, JustinB, pells, David Artman, JSDiamond.

4/24/2007 Ben Lehman: Half-Baked Games and Design Culture
So we as a design community have a problem, which I think has been sort of flailingly addressed on Story Games, but it is a real problem and I think…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, xenopulse, Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, LeSingeSavant, Balbinus, Paul Czege, guildofblades, GreatWolf, JSDiamond, iain, signoftheserpent, Pelgrane, jdrakeh, Levi Kornelsen, Marco, eyebeams, Thunder_God, pells, Frank Tarcikowski, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, nikola, Matt Snyder.

4/23/2007 David Artman: POD Pricing: Ethical Issues?
Damned Internal Server errors.... Hi, all; This one's for the POD publishers and ethics pundits in general.... I am hoping to release the full GLASS rules via POD ("shot GLASS"…
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Participants: David Artman, xenopulse, Eero Tuovinen.

4/23/2007 David C: How did you come up with your name?
I always figured that coming up with the name for my game would come to me as I worked on the game. Now, its been a year later and I…
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Participants: David C, David Artman, RyanMacklin, JustinB, Jake Richmond, Jarx, Ron Edwards, nikola, GregStolze, guildofblades.

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5/28/2007 asdfff: Outsider question: Who in the world does the 'd20' name appeal to?
I was reminded of the D&D player's handbook the other day, and I thought to myself, who in the world buys this thing? 1) D&D claims to have only a…
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Participants: asdfff, C.W.Richeson, Justin D. Jacobson, Ron Edwards.

5/31/2007 vertigo25: What do You All Think of This Trend?
After reading through OSRIC, reading this article at Uncle Bear about GORE and FACERIP, and most importantly, reading the series of articles by Jerry Stratton about copyright law on hi…
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Participants: vertigo25, preludetotheend.

6/4/2007 SaintandSinner: New versions of games
Should publishers update books for existing customers?  Should someone who bought PDFs Shock or Mortal Coil (just to pick a couple of examples that have been tossed around as needing…
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Participants: SaintandSinner, Matt Snyder, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, Jake Richmond, Dav.

6/12/2007 RobNJ: Epigrams and The Law
As I finally begin to write the text of my sci-fi game of youthful rebellion, <a href="http://indie-insurgent.livejournal.com/1768.html">Misspent Youth</a>, I am coming up against a concern I would imagine a number…
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Participants: RobNJ, Gaerik, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, jasonm, David Artman, rafael.

6/17/2007 vertigo25: PODs Who Print Slipcases and/or Boxes?
I'm working on my game (which will, of course, revolutionize the industry and make everyone who ever plays it wish they had thought of it first and will win every…
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Participants: vertigo25, guildofblades.

6/20/2007 MatrixGamer: Making board game boards
I'm playing around with making boardgame boards. I'd like to share the results of the experiments so far. First off I'm printing maps on a HP Color laser printer. This…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades.

6/27/2007 GreatWolf: Anyone out there using Scribus?
My wife does my layout work for me.  She is currently using PageMaker 6.  But that is starting to get dated, so she is considering switching to Scribus, an open-source…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, jerry, zoom, scbenezra, David Artman, Jonas Karlsson, Clay, xenopulse, klapton.

6/28/2007 preludetotheend: Colored page paper?
I was just curious is any one had used the sturdier paper used in printing colored pages at all, and if so how did it go for you? If you…
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Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer, David Artman, komradebob.

7/13/2007 mratomek: FINALLY...
I wasn't sure where to post this, but the beginnig ("First Thoughts") seemed to be a great place at the end ("sending to the file off to the printers). Just…
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Participants: mratomek.

7/17/2007 komradebob: ?? Selling Pdfs from a home site?
Hi folks: I ran into a strange situation yesterday. I was ordering a game (pdf format) from an online seller, but it turned out that I had to buy a…
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Participants: komradebob, David Artman.

7/18/2007 MatrixGamer: Anybody done anything with silk screen printing?
I'm getting ready to do some experiments with screen printing to get a glossy coat on covers, maps, etc. Anybody done any of this before me? If so, how did…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, David Artman, Paul Czege.

7/20/2007 Paul Czege: question about acrylic paint
I'm planning to do splatter painting and paint stamping with acrylic paint on the covers of my Acts of Evil ashcan books for Gen Con. And I've been thinking the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, MatrixGamer, Darcy Burgess, David Artman.

7/23/2007 whatiswhat: Resources for Writers of sci-fi, fantasy, and role play games.
Hello My name is John and I am the sole (at this point) Author, Game designer, and CEO of Sword & Sigil Game Design. I have created a website that…
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Participants: whatiswhat.

7/23/2007 whatiswhat: Resource announcement: Painbrain.com
[b]A little something I have created in my spare time to help with cost effective (free) Promotion. [/b] I have created a website that mite interest all game design authors,…
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Participants: whatiswhat, Ron Edwards.

7/26/2007 preludetotheend: Vision Impared and indie's place in the market.
[size=15pt]I think that one of our greatest abilities as small time press's to gain an edge in sales on larger companies is our focus. Larger companies focus on the largest…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Primordia, MatrixGamer, jasonm, Andy Kitkowski.

7/27/2007 lachek: Artists working on profit sharing model?
This may be naive, but is there any precedent for "hiring" an artist not with cash-per-page, but with profit-sharing? Like a comic book or a children's book will often have…
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Participants: lachek, iago, KeithBVaughn, c, guildofblades, Jake Richmond, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, pells.

8/3/2007 Trevis Martin: For Gencon People - Elevator Pitches
I ran across an article on elevator pitches that I thought might be helpful for some of you folks doing the GenCon thing. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/08/how-to-craft-killer-elevator-pitch-that.html - Trevis
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Participants: Trevis Martin.

8/10/2007 Antimuppet: Covert Generation - Looking for Help
Hey Folks. I'm looking for some help on how to promote Covert Generation. Those of you who have played it, can you let me know your thoughts? I'm not making…
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Participants: Antimuppet, rafael, c, Matt-M-McElroy, Sivá.

8/10/2007 Capulet: Shipping Prices
Hello all. First time poster, here. I'm at the point of final product - game book is done, got my printing quotes, etc. I've been advised to use UPS Ground…
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Participants: Capulet, Paul Czege, segedy, Jake Richmond, rafael.

8/11/2007 Eldrad: A new way of Publishing and Distribution Ideas
These are a few ideas although flawed may be a new way to get your game out there. I have thoght of these in the past and what better place…
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Participants: Eldrad, Capulet, guildofblades, Vulpinoid, phatonin, cognis, MatrixGamer, GMSkarka, Ron Edwards.

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