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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.

11/6/2007 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.

11/2/2007 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.

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.

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.

10/20/2007 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.

10/12/2007 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.

10/1/2007 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.

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.

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.

9/24/2007 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.

9/24/2007 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.

9/20/2007 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.

9/20/2007 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.

9/15/2007 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.

9/13/2007 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.

9/8/2007 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.

9/6/2007 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.

9/5/2007 JustinB: ISBN Acquisition
Does anyone know how to go about getting an ISBN? I remember seeing something about this a while back, but I'm having trouble finding it...
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Participants: JustinB, Eero Tuovinen, xenopulse, Pelgrane, TwoCrows, lighthouse.

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.

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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.

11/28/2007 MatrixGamer: Plans for the new year
I've been gearing up for the new year for the last few weeks. At the beginning of November I decided what games I'd put out next year. I'm thinking of…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

11/28/2007 Capulet: Getting the Word Out
Okay, I've written the game. Playtested the game. Rewritten the game. The layout, graphics, and printing are done. I've got a stack of them in the corner. Now what? How…
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Participants: Capulet, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, pells.

11/28/2007 J Tolson: Guerilla and Viral Advertising Tactics
Though it will probably be years before my game is actually finished and I need to start thinking about advertising, I noticed that there wasn’t much discussion (okay, none that…
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Participants: J Tolson, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

12/2/2007 patrick80: Question for the experts
From what I've read here, no one is comfortable calling themselves an expert, but you all have much more experience than I do, so you are experts to me. I'm…
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Participants: patrick80, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, xenopulse, iago.

12/17/2007 Eero Tuovinen: Mainstream friendly, small games for compilated publication
If you were publishing a mainstream book for bookstores about roleplaying, with the intent to inspire further exploration of the subject, would you have some particular games that you'd like…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, Noclue, Blankshield, matthijs, Ron Edwards.

12/18/2007 Murrquan: Indie RPG publishing full-time?
I was reading some posts about sales numbers in this thread. And while they seem pretty small in terms of sales numbers per year, they sound like the kind of…
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Participants: Murrquan, guildofblades, iago, Ron Edwards.

12/20/2007 KeithBVaughn: A Web Site--What's Needed?
To the Group, Once again asking for help & insight from some of the more experienced members here. As Planets of Peril gets ready for release, I know a website…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, David Artman, WRYoung, Clay, Nathan.

12/21/2007 Miskatonic: Show some spine!
Indie publishers, There is something I noticed on my last visit to my FLGS. This store is reasonably good at ordering indie stuff from IPR and even grabs a bunch…
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Participants: Miskatonic, iago, jasonm, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Scro, David Artman.

12/25/2007 guildofblades: Guild of Blades, 2007 Year in Review
Guild of Blades 2007 Year in Review Hi Everyone, As had been a tradition for me for the last 6 years or so, near the end of the year I…
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Participants: guildofblades.

12/28/2007 Capulet: "Factions at War" Freebie PDFs
(I hope this is the most appropriate forum for this. If not, sorry Ron.) Allrighty, I've compressed the core book (Factions at War) down from 386 pages to 92 pages,…
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Participants: Capulet, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

1/15/2008 crespowu: active vs passive entertainment (split)
I think RPG is more interactive.
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Participants: crespowu, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2008 JustinB: Layout
Damn, layout is expensive. I need layout and I need it pretty soon for the first FN supplement. Can anyone point me to a relatively inexpensive layout person? Ron, if…
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Participants: JustinB, iago, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

1/16/2008 Willow: Embedding Fonts
The Situation:  I'm doing my layout in Open Office.  It's what I know, it's what I have, and it's working for what I'm trying to do.  It also exports documents…
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Participants: Willow, Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy, David Artman, OnnoTasler, btrc.

1/19/2008 Willow: Awesome Adventures- Cover Art HELP!
Here's my cover art as it stands currently:  http://www.willowpalecek.com/images/cover3.JPG (It looks better in an image program, without the white background of the cover on the white background of the browser.)…
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Participants: Willow, Selene Tan, Ken, MKAdams, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/19/2008 Scro: Cost vs. Revenue
I guess as a full time business dude, and a part time game designer, I might have something to say on the subject. First of all, the $8 revenue you…
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Participants: Scro, guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Bjorn, lumpley, David Artman.

1/20/2008 Nathan P.: Some 2007 Numbers
Heya So I did my final bookkeeping this morning, and figured that it may be informative to post some numbers. I consider myself to be pretty low-to-mid tier in terms…
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Participants: Nathan P., iago, Pelgrane.

1/21/2008 btrc: File size, compression and quality?
I'm working on an interactive character sheet for a project, and the sheet itself is going to be a full-page jpeg background image in a pdf. The image is color,…
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Participants: btrc, jerry, Paul Czege, David Artman.

1/27/2008 MKAdams: Foil Covers Help?
I'm looking at publishing an RPG.  I want a 5.5 x 8.5 book, black, with silver foil printing on the cover, with a textured paper. Essentially, I want something that…
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Participants: MKAdams, Eero Tuovinen.

1/28/2008 RobNJ: Freeware/open source thing like InDesign?
I've recently decided I want to do Misspent Youth as an ashcan for Gen Con, and further that I want to try to do the layout on the ashcan (though…
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Participants: RobNJ, GreatWolf, KeithBVaughn.

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