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2/22/2009 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Book Sizes and PDFs
I'm currently considering going with a digest-sized book for my upcoming RPG, Slasher Flick. However, I'm also planning to release it in PDF format. And therein lies the problem. Most…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eero Tuovinen, KeithBVaughn, David Artman, Gregor Hutton.

2/21/2009 Paraplegic Racehorse: Packaging and Presentation
I'm definitely fishing, here, so please chime in with your opinions. Lots of us, here, provide or have provided adventure modules for someone else's game (D20 glut?). Lots of us…
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Participants: Paraplegic Racehorse, Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, preludetotheend, pells, MatrixGamer.

2/13/2009 Nathan: Contact Info for Key20
Hey folks, I noticed that Key20's website is down with a "We are closed." message. Has anyone heard word on this? All my emails have been bounced back recently that…
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Participants: Nathan, iago, Ron Edwards, visioNationstudios.

2/1/2009 Christopher Kubasik: An Article About Print-on-Demand, Publishing, and the Future
Everyone's trying to guess how all this is going to shake out.  I think it says many of the things that have been argued here about RPG publishing.... and extends…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Wolfen, greyorm, guildofblades, MatrixGamer.

1/31/2009 preludetotheend: Preping files for making saddle stitched book
  Hello I am typing up a rough draft of an ash can that I plan to saddle stitch staple. I am trying to figure out how to actual lay…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, ccreitz, Blankshield.

1/14/2009 David C: About Publishing: Can I get an idea what it's like?
After pouring many hours into my game and seeing it become something closer to "complete", I've wanted to consider some of my options about things.  So, if you can give…
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Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Graham Walmsley, Willow, greyorm.

1/5/2009 btrc: DVD/CD cases
I know a few people use these as an alternate packaging for game products. Meritline.com is having a sale on a few types, if anyone needs to update their stock.…
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Participants: btrc.

12/31/2008 guildofblades: One Page RPG Publication
Ok, so I was reading over the 1 page RPGs and I was thinking as a retailer how cool it could be to offer to sell them. Say $.99 for…
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Participants: guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen, Jake Richmond.

12/30/2008 davidberg: quoting TV dialogue in your game text: legal?
So, I'm making a game that's inspired by X-Files, and I want to put some Mulder and Scully quotes in it.  Does anyone know what rules I have to follow…
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Participants: davidberg, Eero Tuovinen.

12/19/2008 guildofblades: GOB Ecom & Your Brand on Custom Poker Decks
Hi All, Well, we are just about finished tweaking the code on our new e-commerce store for GOB Retail and we'll begin promoting it shortly. You can find the store…
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Participants: guildofblades, otspiii.

12/17/2008 HiQKid: Poison Pages redux (split)
*I noted the warning above - this thread's been quiet for quite a while. But I'm not sure my point is worth making a whole new topic, and I feel…
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Participants: HiQKid, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

12/16/2008 davidberg: adding a PayPal button to my website
I need to sell a PDF.  I am fluent in HTML and know a teeny bit of javascript. How do I make it so that when you click on a…
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Participants: davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P., Wolfen, Zonetrooper1, Clay.

12/15/2008 casimps1: 2008 Intelligent Gamer Awards Nominations
First of all, my apologies if this is posted in the wrong place or is somehow against site policy. I found a few other awards threads in this forum, so…
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Participants: casimps1.

12/14/2008 wunderllama: Designers with printed books: who do you print with and how's their service?
Hi, folks. So for my initial print run of Thou Art But A Warrior, I wound up going with Publisher's Graphics. I had very vague anecdotal reports about their service…
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Participants: wunderllama, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, Pelgrane, Graham Walmsley, Gregor Hutton, jasonm, lorry.

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.

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.

12/3/2008 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.

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.

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.

11/11/2008 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.

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3/2/2009 Jeremy Keller: Contracts for editors?
Hi everyone.  I've lurked around here for quite some time, but this is my first time posting.  I've just finished writing a manuscript for a game system and I'm starting…
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Participants: Jeremy Keller, Luke, Adam Dray.

3/5/2009 apeiron: CreateSpace.com - Have you used it?
Google gave me a link to CreateSpace.com.  They seem to be a PoD service connected to Amazon. Have you used them?  How was it?
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Participants: apeiron, Graham Walmsley, Paraplegic Racehorse, visioNationstudios.

3/11/2009 Amadeo: Patronage and Publishing
I just took a look over at Monte Cook's new Dungeon-a-Day project and its got me thinking. What does everyone think of patronage for game designers? Wolfgang Baur did it…
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Participants: Amadeo, iago, Vulpinoid, MatrixGamer.

3/12/2009 Graham Walmsley: Publishers' Graphics: Apparently they're a file storage facility, now
A rather odd email from Publishers' Graphics. Dear Graham, March 9, 2009 We are updating our data-file storage system, and have added new procedures to our safeguards to insure that…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2009 preludetotheend: Could 3.5 ogl open 4th ed
I have been pondering how best to publish for 4th ed, not being to fond of the gsl I was wondering if the ogl might be able to remedy things.…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Rafu, Ron Edwards.

3/27/2009 Ben Lehman: Publishing a Gaming Magazine
So I've decided to publish a gaming magazine. A year ago, I wrote a game called XXXXtreme STREET luge, which has been shockingly successful given that I haven't even produced…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, MatrixGamer, Calithena.

3/30/2009 jasonm: An Offer I Passed On
So Alderac Entertainment Group just got in touch with me, to offer me a job.  Here are the specifics: I’d sign an NDA and then they’d show me their new…
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Participants: jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Capulet, Artanis, Wolfen, guildofblades, jburneko, greyorm, C. Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, shaneivey.

4/1/2009 Luke: Full Color, 20¢ a page
Holy cow, has anyone seen or even used MagCloud yet? http://magcloud.com/ It's an endeavor by HP to create a Lulu-like service for short run, low page-count magazines. It seems utterly…
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Participants: Luke, jasonm, mjbauer, Double King, Marhault.

4/1/2009 Seamus: New Publisher With Questions about GSL and OGL
Just getting started in the publishing world, and trying to decide if I should go 4E or OGL. We will have an original system or two in our lineup as…
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Participants: Seamus, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Luke.

4/2/2009 Seamus: NEW PUBLISHER BUSINESS PLAN
I am creating a business plan for a small publishing business. We have one project in the works we want to focus on, and hope it will be successful enough…
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, Paul Czege, greyorm, guildofblades, xenopulse, Noclue.

4/5/2009 preludetotheend: Free give away contests to get some visibility?
I am currently playing around with www.twitter.com/BitsyBook creating one of those tweet books people have been buzzing about. As I am polishing up my little game chef entry (my first…
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Participants: preludetotheend, iago.

4/6/2009 Seamus: LULU.COM
A few publishers have recommended Lulu.Com. Does anyone here have experience with lulu?
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Participants: Seamus, rafael, iago, greyorm, Calithena, xenopulse, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, jerry, April L. Hamilton, redalastor, guildofblades.

4/8/2009 visioNationstudios: WotC Pulls PDFs
Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere on the Forge and I missed it.  Just wondering two things: 1) Have any details come to light regarding the decision by…
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Participants: visioNationstudios, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, Josh Gertz, preludetotheend, David C.

4/8/2009 Sonja: Freeware/open source thing like InDesign? (split)
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24224.0
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Participants: Sonja, Ron Edwards.

4/9/2009 guildofblades: POD Board Games
Ok, so this summer we want to get serious about cracking the next challenge in POD production. Board games. Yes, I know, GOB Publishing has been doing it for years.…
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Participants: guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen, Paraplegic Racehorse, Wolfen, Josh Gertz, preludetotheend.

4/14/2009 Carnifex: Cross-referencing in InDesign (split)
You can make cross-references in InDesign. Place your marker where you want the reference "target" (or mark the word). Open the Hyperlinks panel. Choose "new hyperlink destination" in the panel…
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Participants: Carnifex, Ron Edwards, iago, Darcy Burgess.

4/14/2009 iago: Cross-referencing in InDesign (split)
Update: InDesign CS4 now supports cross-referencing natively, no extra plugins needed. I'm pretty happy with it.
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Participants: iago, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Carnifex.

4/18/2009 Seamus: RPG Style Guides
One problem I keep having as a writer for RPG products is figuring out when to speak in the 2nd person and 3rd and who to address. Sometimes it feels…
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Participants: Seamus, Willow, Luke, Ashirgo, ShallowThoughts.

4/22/2009 Seamus: Impressions Advertising and Marketing
Anyone work through them before. Good or bad experience?
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Participants: Seamus, preludetotheend, guildofblades.

4/25/2009 Seamus: Font and Font size for 8x11 book
I know nothing about typography and layout, but I have 6 months to figure it out for our first release (if I can't do it in that time, I guess…
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Participants: Seamus, Vulpinoid, Luke, Wolfen, Gregor Hutton, mjbauer, David C, Carnifex, Graham Walmsley, btrc, Eero Tuovinen.

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