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2/9/2008 was_fired: Getting a Game Ready for Release
I've been working on TOCC for about two years now and I'm getting ready to try to market it and have it branch out beyond just my small group of…
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Participants: was_fired, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, davidberg, JustinB, abzu.

2/7/2008 Arkhaden: Semantics versus legal issues
Hi everyone!  My ranks in english literacy are  very  low    so  I  hope you understand what I’m trying to say.  I’m writing an RPG with dice an skills etc.…
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Participants: Arkhaden, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/7/2008 greyorm: New Publishing Frontiers
We all know the market for intellectual property is changing on a fundamental level thanks to the internet and the ease of copying and distribution of data -- cheap, free,…
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Participants: greyorm, David Artman, guildofblades, pells.

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.

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.

1/21/2008 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.

1/20/2008 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.

1/19/2008 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.

1/19/2008 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.

1/16/2008 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.

1/15/2008 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.

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

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.

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.

12/21/2007 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.

12/20/2007 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.

12/18/2007 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.

12/17/2007 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.

12/2/2007 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.

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.

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2/18/2008 JackConrad: Open License...
I am curious how many independent artists and/or publishers out there have tried to produce and release work under an open license; that is, how many of said individuals released…
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Participants: JackConrad, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/20/2008 _haroharo_: System is Completed and Being Playtested -What Now?
  The main reason I am here is because I hAve created an RPG system which I want to somehow sell to the masses whether that be through PDF, print-on-demand,…
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Participants: _haroharo_, lachek.

2/20/2008 williamhessian: my first post, my CCG, and pictures!
this is my first post. i am so excited to find this forum (i found it by searching google). In the last ten years i have designed 4 CCG (or…
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Participants: williamhessian, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, _haroharo_, Willow, masqueradeball, btrc.

2/21/2008 Willow: Llulu/Print on Demand File Formatting
So, when I upload my PDF file, which is the interior of the book, is the first page the inside of the cover, or is it the first physical paper…
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Participants: Willow, Ron Edwards.

2/21/2008 williamhessian: POD Card Printing, Maybe (split)
once you are accepting outside orders i would like to put in an order for 100-250 cards (depending on how many i have finished at that point). I am guessing…
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Participants: williamhessian, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Nev the Deranged.

2/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Last Year's Indie Games
It took a while for the latest batch of indie games I ordered from the US to reach our distant shores, but now they're finally here, and just in time…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, iago.

2/24/2008 Grinning Moon: Things that just ARE plain taboo, as far as RPGs are concerned
Okay. So there's a review of a game at RPG.net that just... bugs me (not the review or reviewer - the game being reviewed): http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13640.phtml Okay, okay - maybe there's…
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Participants: Grinning Moon, Eero Tuovinen, Velcanthus, Axe4Eye, StrongBadMun, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Willow, Ben Lehman, guildofblades, David Artman, joepub, btrc, tymotzues.

2/25/2008 davidberg: page size questions
I've just ported my game text (still being revised) into Adobe InDesign to work on some presentation issues, and I figure it might save me some hassles down the road…
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Participants: davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Peter Nordstrand, Ben Lehman.

2/26/2008 masqueradeball: Websites
I just signed up to a web host and am working on a website that I hope to be a central hub for my games and other activities (art and…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, jag, anders_larsen, guildofblades.

2/27/2008 btrc: Downloadable board game!
I've just made Black Death active at RPGnow.com. This is a full, pro-quality board game in terms of its components, but you have to print and assemble it yourself. In…
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Participants: btrc, Eero Tuovinen, williamhessian.

3/2/2008 Willow: Cute PDF Resizing Pages
Hey all- For Awesome Adventures, I set up my layout in Open Office, and exported to Cute PDF so I can upload it to Lulu.  What I've found, is that…
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Participants: Willow.

3/3/2008 Andy Kitkowski: Difficult Question for Layout/Publisher folk re language and macrons
Hey all. So I'm working on this Japanese RPG, and I'm doing the last round of translation and editing. I know Jack and Junk about layout and publishing, so I…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

3/4/2008 JustinB: Printer Roundup, or Help Me The Forge, You're My Only Hope
So apparently Avalon may be imploding and no one bothered to tell me that this has been going on for 2 months or so now. Which means that the print…
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Participants: JustinB, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Capulet, guildofblades, visioNationstudios.

3/9/2008 GeeX Underground: Freeware PDF
Currently I am using PDF995 in order to create my PDF documents and it works wonderfully... if you don't mind visiting a sponsor's website every time you make a PDF.…
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Participants: GeeX Underground, oliof.

3/12/2008 Editions Icare: Editions Icare : French translating and resealing of Indies games
Hi everybody, I am the creator of a French publishing company of rpg: Editions Icare We have just published our first game: PRAETORIA PRIMA (www.praetoria-prima.com) an English version of which…
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Participants: Editions Icare, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, Lucca, greyorm.

3/12/2008 JustinB: Fulfillment Houses
Has anyone else whose regular fulfillment house sells to Alliance Distributors gotten an e-mail from Alliance offering to act as a fulfillment house for you? Is Alliance trying to break…
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Participants: JustinB, iago, Ron Edwards, Wingnut, guildofblades, Danny O, Eero Tuovinen.

3/14/2008 Paul Czege: 72 Hours of Boinging
On Tuesday, Patrick Dugan posted a review of My Life with Master to Greg Costikyan's Play This Thing blog. The review was picked up by Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing blog…
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Participants: Paul Czege, iago, Roger.

3/15/2008 Edward Kann: Rocketship Empires: Q&A
Hi Guys, I've lurked in The Forge for a while.  Going back to when I started to work on a few free PDF supplements for my fantasy setting. I am…
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Participants: Edward Kann.

3/24/2008 David Artman: 4:3 Aspect Ratio (or "Have You Already Done My Research For Me?")
I want to release ASCII @HACK in a print format which most-closely resembles the 4:3 aspect ratio of (pre-widescreen) monitors, for reason which are obvious if one even glances at…
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Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards, iago, JustinB, guildofblades.

3/24/2008 guildofblades: GOB Retail POD & other Programs Update
Hi Everyone, Just got done updating the web pages for our Dropship, Retail and Wholesale programs for the Guild of Blades Retail Group. The details on each program can be…
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Participants: guildofblades, Illetizgerg.

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