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9/4/2007 iain: [Mob Justice] What I learnt (long)
Well the final version of Mob Justice hit the shelves at Gencon this year and I thought it might be interesting to look back on the process that got me…
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Participants: iain.

9/4/2007 JasonWalters: Can Anyone Wholeheartedly Recommend A POD Printer For me?
I would like to be put in contact with a decent POD printer… if there is such a thing! I've got a pretty good idea of who NOT to use……
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Participants: JasonWalters, Eero Tuovinen, iago, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Paul Czege, Nathan P., Valamir, Capulet, nikola.

9/4/2007 TwoCrows: Poison Pages
Forgites, Concerning Traditional vs. Indie Publishing Models, and/or ethics, and in reference to this thread: For the sake of enlightenment, and posterity, I’d be interested to read people’s latest takes…
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Participants: TwoCrows, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Jonathan Walton, Pelgrane, David Artman, iago, xenopulse, Vulpinoid, MatrixGamer, ryand.

9/3/2007 Ishmayl: Legal Advice on Creating Particular Web Site
Hey guys, I hope this is the proper forum for this; someone from my website recommended I ask this question over here.  I don't know if you can help me…
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Participants: Ishmayl, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2007 KeithBVaughn: Graphics??? Another Question for PDF Publishers
Hello again all, I'm scanning some of my artwork for "Planets of Peril" and finding the final files large to say the least. I normally scan 300 dpi tiffs so…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, greyorm, Paul Czege.

9/2/2007 Ninetongues: Arch Inverted publishing questions
[b][url=http://images26.fotosik.pl/31/ac9c421268071a4a.gif]Cover image[/url][/b] Allright. I took my time with AI, and thought some things over. Now I'm sure about that: I will make AI [b]free [/b]for everyone wanting to play. For…
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Participants: Ninetongues, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2007 Calithena: POD in digest size?
Hi all - I have a gaming project with legs going on with some other people and we want to do it POD. Ideally we'd like it to be digest-sized…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Ben Lehman.

8/25/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombies at the Door!] Publishing a boardgame
OK, now that I have a spare moment, here's the story of how I published my indie roleplaying boardgame last month. I'll also discuss the difficulties of repeating the process…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, hix, Emily Care, MatrixGamer, Veritas Games.

8/24/2007 preludetotheend: Throw Down!
So I was watching the food channel throw down show on a whim and thought how cool would that be with games. I think it would be real cool to…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Filip Luszczyk, Sinistraphobia.

8/21/2007 Andy Kitkowski: The GenCon Ashcan collective was a success, in my book
...because whether I participate in "booth" or not, I've determined to Be Like Paul: Come up with the game, make it as solid and tight as I can through playtests...…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, iain.

8/21/2007 MatrixGamer: Gen Con - How did it go for everyone?
Time to share your experiences and thoughts. I'm putting this in the publishing section because this would be for people who were there selling. First off I want to say…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, jasonm, JustinB.

8/18/2007 KeithBVaughn: Now What??? Questions for PDF Publishers
I've finally finished writing my game: "Planets of Peril." Now I want to get it into shape to sell as a pdf and I find myself with more questions than…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, Jake Richmond, xenopulse, GMSkarka, Ron Edwards, Clay.

8/13/2007 Primordia: Magazines? No not p0rn, but the RPG kind dealing with rpg theory
Hey everybody. Im just angling here, does anyone know of a magazine for the Game developer? a magazine which invests in the development of RPG games? Secondly, does a magazine…
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Participants: Primordia, Jake Richmond.

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.

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.

8/10/2007 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.

8/3/2007 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.

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.

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.

7/23/2007 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.

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9/6/2007 Ben Lehman: PDF Compression?
I'm trying to produce a PDF of a rather long document, and I can't get inDesign to spit out a file under 7 MB. That seems unnecessarily large to me.…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Kevin Allen Jr, Adam, btrc.

9/8/2007 TwoCrows: Games and Amazon
Forgites, What sorts of experiences have people had selling their games via Amazon.com? Regards, Brad
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Participants: TwoCrows, Jake Richmond, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Ken.

9/13/2007 xenopulse: Beast Hunters - The First Six Months
Hi there, In the past, I've always greatly appreciated posts by indie publishers who've shared their experiences and numbers. It's helped me greatly to see how things are working out…
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Participants: xenopulse, lighthouse, Artanis, oliof, Jake Richmond, iago.

9/15/2007 rafael: [Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium] New edition, lessons learned
The first edition of Dread (Pandemonium) was published in 2002. The printer that I used charged me $1300 to print 100 copies, which I sold through my web site (mostly…
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Participants: rafael.

9/20/2007 Yokiboy: How to Present Rules in a More Intuitive Manner
Hello, In the The Collections Agent, the President of Earth and the Revolutionary Judd makes a comment about how he learns to play new roleplaying games. quote author=Paka link=topic=24820.msg240787#msg240787…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, lighthouse, chris_moore, baragh, Paka, killacozzy, Vulpinoid.

9/20/2007 lighthouse: Is it a good idea to buy the lulu distribution packages?
I hope the subject lines says it all :)
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Participants: lighthouse, iago.

9/24/2007 grodog: market research poll for old Different Worlds magazine?
Which forum on the site would be the most-appropriate place to poll to determine if there's any interest in a CD archive of the old indie rpg magazine, Different Worlds? …
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Participants: grodog, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, rycanada, KeithBVaughn.

9/24/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: German Publishing Revolution
Hi, There is a pretty cool thing happening in Germany at the moment. I guess I’m just pointing it out to say, “look what can be done in RPG publishing”.…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, oliof, jasonm, xenopulse, Grumpy.

9/25/2007 rycanada: Free but not worthless
My last two projects (E6 and Raising the Stakes) have received a lot of attention, at least for free .pdfs (perhaps two dozen groups either running E6 games now or…
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Participants: rycanada, jasonm, Justin D. Jacobson, David Artman, Ron Edwards, iago, xenopulse, rekyl, Grumpy, Thunder_God.

9/29/2007 Willow: Use of SRD Text in a Published Product?
Hey all- I've been busy typing away on my manuscript for Awesome Adventures, a Fate 3.0 game, hoping to make this my first published product.  (And gaining yet more respect…
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Participants: Willow, greyorm, iago.

10/1/2007 GregStolze: Analyzing the REIGN supplement ransoms.
To celebrate putting up REIGN's fourth supplement for ransom, I did the tedious job of poring over the contribution numbers from the first three.  So here is that rarest of…
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Participants: GregStolze, rafial, oliof, Minx.

10/12/2007 RobNJ: Use of the Myers-Briggs trademark
Hey folks, From what I can tell by reading http://www.mbtitoday.org/FEB2004TMGuidelines.pdf it looks like if I use Myers-Briggs in my game design, I may do so as long as I use…
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Participants: RobNJ, Vulpinoid, c, MatrixGamer.

10/20/2007 GregStolze: [REIGN] Another ransom success! W00t!
(Note that all 733t speak is used ironically.) http://www.gregstolze.com/reign/Owners_of_the_Seas.zip There it is, another case of "to the worker shall go his wages."  This one took a lot longer than the…
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Participants: GregStolze, xenopulse.

10/28/2007 preludetotheend: Steal this pdf! (possible business model)
    So the free but not worthless thread gave me an idea, what if you promoted a free ad supported pdf via file share sites and such. The pdf…
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Participants: preludetotheend, GregStolze, rekyl, guildofblades, David Artman, Simon C.

10/30/2007 Ken: Basic rules as multiple book sets
Hi- I've been play-testing TEN CENT HEROES now for a few months and have been giving thought to the layout of the game. The game will weigh in at about…
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Participants: Ken, Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, iago, abzu, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege.

11/2/2007 guildofblades: POD Card Printing, Maybe
Hi Everyone, I know there was some discussion on this topic in the past so I thought I would follow up with a post regarding some possibilities. The Guild of…
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Participants: guildofblades, iago, Peter Nordstrand, Vulpinoid, Jake Richmond, mindwanders, Raymond Caleatry.

11/6/2007 Willow: Contracts for Art
It's been recommended to me that I get some contracts for myself and my artists. How do I do this?  Are there templates out there?  I know what rights I…
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Participants: Willow, pells, Ron Edwards, iago, Doc_Peck, rafael.

11/10/2007 Simons: [Escape from Illeria] Cost/Profit question
I’m nearing a point right now where I will be publishing Escape from Illeria, and am starting to get nervous about the business model, in particular the costs, expenses, and…
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Participants: Simons, Graham Walmsley, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege, Valamir.

11/19/2007 Raymond Caleatry: Moving with the times
I have a simple question... With the rapid advancment of technology and the ease of which software can be created, do you think that the average gamer would appreciate software…
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Participants: Raymond Caleatry, alexandre santos, contracycle, pells, Clay, Wolfen, Ken, guildofblades, Capulet.

11/28/2007 StrongBadMun: Standard Publishing Font
Ok so this may be totally the wrong place for the question but I was just curious what the "standard" or at least most common font and font size are…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, Wolfen, MatrixGamer, Matt Snyder, Clay, KeithBVaughn, rafael, casquilho, masqueradeball.

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