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10/17/2008 Ron Edwards: The New Thing
This is a companion thread to Independence, Adept Press, and Indie Press Revolution and The Forge Booth 2009. At GenCon this year, Vincent Baker, Julie Stauffer, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, lumpley, iago, HighmoonMedia, Meguey, nikola, Pelgrane.

10/17/2008 Ron Edwards: Independence, Adept Press, and Indie Press Revolution
This is a companion thread to The New Thing and The Forge Booth 2009. Over the years, I've posted about issues of fulfillment and distribution, including The Nuked Apple-Cart, Channel…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, iago, Jonathan Walton, greyorm, nikola, Valamir, Pelgrane, Meguey, lumpley, inthisstyle.

9/25/2008 Xibalba: Publishing for Blind Playtest (Ashcan/Beta?)
Hi Chad, Excellent topic, and this is definitely the right forum for it. As far as I can tell from all these years, the issue of facilitating play isn't determined…
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Participants: Xibalba, Ron Edwards, visioNationstudios.

9/17/2008 GregStolze: [WILD TALENTS] Sound off, opinionated gamers!
OK, the second edition of Wild Talents is coming out soon, but what's getting a good deal of attention is the Wild Talents Essential Edition -- a smaller, cheaper, stripped-down…
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Participants: GregStolze, Kerin, Darcy Burgess.

9/9/2008 chronoplasm: Scrolls?
I don't plan on using this for my own game, but I wanted to just ask... What sorts of hurdles would one run into if they published their game not…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Eero Tuovinen, c, preludetotheend, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Ron Edwards, David Artman.

9/3/2008 slade: 1 color with b/w
How much more does it cost, on say a 400 page book, to add 1 color to a b/w print job? I know this is on a company by company…
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Participants: slade, jasonm, wunderllama, guildofblades, David Artman, Kerin.

8/26/2008 hoefer: Sounding Board for Hardback/Softcover dilemma
Hi All, I've been "ghosting" this forum for about 3 years now and want to start with thanks for all the great wisdom you've all imparted.  Now the dilemma.  My…
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Participants: hoefer, iago, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, MatrixGamer.

8/22/2008 Matterhorn: The Story Tree, some upload advice (please)
Hi -long time browser, first time poster. I have been working on a bronze age pirates meets Lost low fantasy campaign for a while now. Yesterday I was struck by…
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Participants: Matterhorn, Dustin Bingham, Rob Donoghue.

8/21/2008 guildofblades: GOB Retail/Distribution Store Overview
Hi All, Eero requested that I expand upon some of the details about the Guild of Blades Retail Group's plans for its B&M stores, from what I had written on…
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Participants: guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen.

8/21/2008 Andy Kitkowski: Ways to handle PDF downloads?
Hey all, I'm looking for a software kit for the web to do basically one thing (so I don't need a whole CRM/CMS or anything): I want something that can…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, greyorm.

8/19/2008 marsuniversity: What Should We Consider When Selecting a Company Name?
Hello everyone.  As a first-time poster, please forgive me if this topic has been posted too many times in the past (a quick search revealed only a few similar topics),…
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Participants: marsuniversity, David Artman, guildofblades, Dan Maruschak, Ron Edwards, segedy.

8/13/2008 Vulpinoid: The Eighth Sea now available
To the Forgers, Just a note to say thank-you to those people around here who provided feedback and who helped me get this project together. Time to move on to…
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Participants: Vulpinoid.

8/13/2008 Peter Nordstrand: While We Were Fighting — Ties of Blood?
I have friends whose excellent and very funny cardgame Spank the Monkey turned out to be almost unsellable in the US, while it is a great commercial success in the…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

8/7/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Using Wordpress for a company website
I had to make a new, English-language website for my company, as we're trying to sell some games to the English-speaking world now. The conditions were hardly ideal, as I'm…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, segedy, iago, Kerin.

7/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombie Cinema] Writing really short rules
[url=http://isabout.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/zombie-cinema-rules-critique/]Here[/url] I have the rules for my game, [i]Zombie Cinema[/i]. I explain the backgrounds a bit out there in my blog, but the basic proposition is that the game is…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

7/22/2008 David Artman: FLGS Profit Margins
Splitting from a thread in which it was ignored: Does anyone know what an FLGS expects in terms of per-book-sale profit, on a book-only RPG product? I am thinking there's…
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Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards, iago, Thunder_God, guildofblades, First Oni.

7/22/2008 Kyle Daniel: Help With Distributors
Hello all. I've been mooching around this forum and have used it to help design a card game over the last few months. Firstly thank you to everybody for having…
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Participants: Kyle Daniel, daMoose_Neo.

7/21/2008 Andy Kitkowski: Shopping around for a POD printer...
Hey all, so in about a week I'm going to have a PDF file ready to send to POD. I've got two printers that I'm currently inquiring with, but I'd…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, iago, Ron Edwards, Valamir, guildofblades, visioNationstudios.

7/18/2008 greyorm: ORX, Sales Numbers, and Retail
In response to a friend's post about retail pricing and the indie attitude, I decided to lay out my costs and profits for ORX over the last four quarters, and…
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Participants: greyorm, Valamir, guildofblades, Thunder_God, Ben Lehman, Eliarhiman6, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, jag, preludetotheend.

7/17/2008 Darcy Burgess: Cross-referencing in InDesign
Hi, This is a very specific question.  I don't want advice about how to do this in other software packages.  I need help with Adobe InDesign specifically (FYI, I'm using…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, iago.

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10/21/2008 Cynthia Celeste Miller: POD and Pricing for Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2
Hi, guys. Long time, no see. :) I'm preparing to produce CAH:S2 as a full-color hardback book and I looked at the lulu pricing estimate for it and, while I…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Valamir, iago, guildofblades.

10/21/2008 Pelgrane: Pelgrane Press Fulfillment and Distribution
All this talk of fulfillment solutions got me thinking about how ProFantasy and Pelgrane do fulfillment, and how we did it historically. Ancient History When we started ProFantasy, we produced…
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Participants: Pelgrane, lumpley.

10/19/2008 visioNationstudios: Sales Numbers and Retail (split)
[quote]This may just be a skewed perception, but there seems to be a certain, subtle attitude of "needing to sell retail".[/quote] I recall reading this thread as it developed a…
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Participants: visioNationstudios, Ron Edwards.

10/23/2008 preludetotheend: Anyone ever purchased IP
I am currently in the process of negotiating the rights to some intellectual property and am curious if any one has any pointers. I know the basics of purchasing a…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen.

10/27/2008 hoefer: Adobe InDesign Swatch Question
Hey all, I'm using Adobe InDesign CS2 and would like to use "textures" when shading in some tables -that is, fill a row/column with gray hatchmarks or stripes, checkers -whatever. …
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Participants: hoefer, iago.

10/28/2008 Willow: Layout for Dummies?
If you've read Awesome Adventures, you may have noticed that it's not the most beautifully laid out book.  That's because I laid it out myself, using Open Office. So, I'm…
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Participants: Willow, iago, lev_lafayette, jerry, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton.

10/31/2008 visioNationstudios: On Marketing
Last night I came here intending to ask a few questions about marketing.  But I decided to do some searching through the archives here to see what had already been…
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Participants: visioNationstudios, iago, Ron Edwards, Pelgrane, jburneko, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Paraplegic Racehorse.

10/31/2008 visioNationstudios: A Largescale Cross-Posting Idea
I said I was going to split this into a new thread, and so I have.  One of the marketing ideas that came up multiple times during my search here…
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Participants: visioNationstudios, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman.

11/3/2008 preludetotheend: Gaming store models
 Hello folks so I have my thread on http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?action=post;board=12.0 in regards to intellectual property purchasing, but I also have a business model for development that I am looking to get…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, jag, David Artman, Paul Czege, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

11/3/2008 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Printer-Friendly PDF?
How does one go about making a printer-friendly version of an existing PDF product? This may sound like a rather silly question, considering that I've been involved with PDF publishing…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Vulpinoid, iago, btrc.

11/3/2008 lumpley: Have we already reached everyone?
Here's Jesse from another thread: ...what I've observed is a general attitude that "everyone who can be reached, has been reached."  ...just last con I ran…
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Participants: lumpley, preludetotheend, Cynthia Celeste Miller, iago, Pelgrane, Jake Richmond, greyorm, guildofblades, Valamir, jburneko, eyebeams, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Lovecraft, copyrights, trademarks, and other horrors
If I wanted to make a game based on Lovecraft's fiction, could I do that? Or are his stories still covered by copyrights? What about trademarks and such, such as…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Dementia Games, Graham Walmsley, Pelgrane.

11/6/2008 guildofblades: Game Design & Publishing Workshop - Sun, Nov 23rd
The Guild of Blades Retail Group is hosting a FREE game design and independent publishing workshop on Sunday, November 23rd at our new Game Retail Store in Madison Heights (…
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Participants: guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend.

11/11/2008 lumpley: Announcing: the Indie Rpgs Un-store
Hi everybody. I'm launching a new service here under the banner of indie-rpgs.com. It's the indie rpgs un-store, and it lives at games.indie-rpgs.com. Go, check it out. Be sure to…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Eero Tuovinen, wunderllama, Artanis, Hituro, guildofblades.

11/11/2008 big dummy: Open Game License independent?
Hi, I am an independent game designer, I wrote a combat system for the 3.5 OGL I have been on this forum before, a long time ago though I lost…
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Participants: big dummy, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

11/18/2008 btrc: Poster printing
For those with a nearby OfficeMax: http://img.ed4.net/officemax/2008/081118_friendsandfamily/0904-112308_FriendFamilyMaxPerks_Art.pdf (an overly large 1 page flyer) Coupons for 11/23 and 11/24, including 50% off large format printing. So, if you have some posters…
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Participants: btrc.

11/27/2008 Rich Stokes: How to herd cats: getting 8 indie designers to work together on one book
This is a quick rundown of how the CE Journal came into existence.  Hopefully it'll be interesting to a couple of people and might even serve someone as a how-to…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, Gregor Hutton.

12/3/2008 David C: Has anybody used the pro fantasy map making software?
Ron, I'm not sure where this is supposed to go, so feel free to move it to . I was thinking about using the Pro Fantasy software to make…
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Participants: David C, Dementia Games, MatrixGamer, Pelgrane.

12/3/2008 First Oni: Recent Events for Third Eye Games
Hello all! I just thought I'd come onto the forums and let everyone know what's going on in my world. We launched Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. live on 11/25/08 and the…
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Participants: First Oni, David C.

12/5/2008 sirogit: Phases of Customer Involvement
I've been molling this over in my head for awhile, a model of various phases of customer involvement involved in the purchase of tabletop roleplaying games. If someone wanted to…
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Participants: sirogit.

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