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7/19/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Mailing Lists
Many publishers now use free or cheap mailing list services to provide mailing lists to support their games on the Internet. I currently manage four mailing lists; one devoted to…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2002 Michael Hopcroft: CyberCon
I've been asked to get a vendor booth at this year's CyberCon and to run games there. Since this is an on-line game convention and I've never tried to sell…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Dav.

7/18/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: RPGnow
I know we've talked about this before, but I want to know if anyone around here has any hard data - has anyone sold anything through RPGnow.com? (I know for…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Michael Hopcroft, Matt Gwinn, Valamir, xiombarg, Matt, greyorm, quozl, Cynthia Celeste Miller, rpghost.

7/18/2002 Jake Norwood: Supplements Big and Small, Good and Bad
I've been thinking a lot about the roll of supplements lately. I've had many conversations with Ron and others about them and "what makes a good supplment" in the past,…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Le Joueur, xiombarg, Eugene Zee, Matt, Dav, Michael Hopcroft, toshiro.

7/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe exists
Ha ha! Oh, this game is so wonderful ... Matt Snyder has cemented his place in my pantheon of Amazing Role-playing Professionals, due to his work on its layout. Anyway,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, greyorm.

7/16/2002 Matt Snyder: How many copies?
Here's a question sparked by Jared's pole of who will buy octaNe. I'm aiming this at the folks who've done this before, namely Ron and Jason. How many copies of…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Michael Hopcroft, Jürgen Mayer, Eugene Zee, Misguided Games, Tim Denee.

7/16/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'll be at the GPA Booth, but....
I'd like some advice on suitable activities to run at my booth to promote my game. I"m scheduled to run two full demos in the veent hall -- one of…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Misguided Games, Valamir, Jake Norwood.

7/16/2002 Michael Hopcroft: How committed is committed?
IN the back of the HeartQuest book I had an ad for the next game Seraphim Guard was planning to publish, Fuzz: the Furry Police RPG. IT's a nice-looking ad…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, rafael, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

7/15/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Due to circumstances beyond my control....
.... I might as well crawl into a hole and detonate the nearest hand-grenade. I got home from origins (after three days on the bus in nightmaring conditions) only to…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Clay, Jason L Blair.

7/12/2002 Zak Arntson: MonkeyWrench - Convention Edition
Not sure where to post this. It's kind of an experiment. I'm toying with a "Convention Edition" flier for publicity: A fully playable game that fits on one piece of…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ben Morgan.

7/11/2002 Jason L Blair: GU, Forbeck, and Independent Games
Excerpt from "State of the Gaming Industry 2002" by Matt Forbeck. From Games Unplugged Issue 17 (June 2002). The Real Independents I'm not denigrating the independents for their efforts. For…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2002 jrients: How do you promote?
Howdy folks! I'm a newbie here at the Forge, so please try to go easy on me. The Resource Library at the Forge has led me to a…
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Participants: jrients, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2002 Matt Gwinn: Distribution Question
I just received an email from Esdevium Games Limited, an RPG distributor in the UK. One of their customers asked about Kayfabe, so they asked for my terms and such.…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Eugene Zee, Matt, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.

7/9/2002 Ron Edwards: The Forge at GenCon - CRUCIAL POST
So far, based on my financial records, here are the people who are going to be at the booth, in addition to me and Jason. Gordon Landis Scott Knipe Paul…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Jürgen Mayer, Matt Snyder, Demonspahn, Jason L Blair, Jerry D. Grayson, TSL, Misguided Games, Gordon C. Landis, GreatWolf, woodelf.

7/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Origins debriefing
Hi everyone, Here's my Origins Report! I'll start by clarifying that Origins is one of the two big player-targeted gaming conventions, sponsored by GAMA (the Game Manufacturer's Association), which also…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Misguided Games, Michael Hopcroft.

7/8/2002 bluekabuto: Cookie Fu Goes to Press, Gen Con, and Cafe Press
Konnichiwa - Blue Kabuto would like to announce that Cookie Fu has gone to production! The dice have gone off to the manufacturing plant and we're prepping the other contents…
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Participants: bluekabuto.

7/4/2002 Henry Fitch: The Big Box
Y'know how some games used to come in big boxes, with bunches of different books and maps and funs stuff like that? Getting Everway recently made me realize how much…
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Participants: Henry Fitch, Ron Edwards, Bailey, Matt Gwinn, rafael, Jack Spencer Jr.

6/29/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Any last thoughts before I leave for Origins?
Turns out I get on that Greyhound to go to Origins on Monday. I have no idea what to expect, little idea of what I'm supposed to do, and a…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Adam.

6/28/2002 Michael Hopcroft: What happens when you catch a typo too late?
I heard from my printer this afternoon and she said they were going to send me my proofs tomorrow (whoich is good) and they;'d found a couple of problems (which…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Chris Passeno, Matt Gwinn, Adam.

6/27/2002 Michael Hopcroft: MY game is ready!
Well, HeartQuest is at the porinters and the PDF version is ready to be sold. RPGNow will be carrying it, possibly as early as tomorrow, several other e-tailers will carry…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, hive.

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7/23/2002 Jürgen Mayer: FYI: electronic publishing booth at GenCon
Just read this: http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=4673&mode=thread&order=0 and thought it might interest some of you. It's about a Wizard's Attic/rpg.net mall - sponsored GenCon booth where they apparently will sell pdf games on…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer.

7/24/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Layout and DTP
For the people here actually publishing games, what are you using for your layout and design? Are you using a DTP program, like Quark or Photoshop, or are you using…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Jake Norwood, Matt Snyder, Nathan, Adam, Eugene Zee, Matt, hive, mahoux, Ben Morgan, Jack Spencer Jr, Michael Hopcroft, Tim Denee, woodelf, Tim Gray, Matt Wilson, Clay.

7/25/2002 Zak Arntson: Promo Idea - Prizes for Reviewing
I'm not sure Publishing is the best place for it, but I'm experimenting with a way to pay for "advertising." Basically, I'm offering a 100x100 pixel icon based on a…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hive.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Banner creation
Hi everyone. It seems that banners are a big marketing tool for RPG's, I have clicked on many banners at RPGnet, but I don't recall seeing too many banner-related threads.…
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Participants: Demonspahn, Michael Hopcroft, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hive.

7/19/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'm beginning to wonder which is worse.....
Origins nerves or GenCon nevres. Even though I'll be at a rival booth, I have hopes that we can help each other out however we can. I hope that there…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Eugene Zee.

7/26/2002 Sjohn: Any experiences with FinePrint PDF software?
Has anyone had much play with FinePrint? http://www.fineprint.com/ It's an alternative to Distiller for making PDFs (in Windows), very inexpensive. There's a lot more control than using something like Ghostscript,…
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Participants: Sjohn, hive.

7/26/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Swag
As long as I'm going to GenCon, a lot of people are going to ask me for free copies of my game for review or in return for their games.…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Adam, Clay.

7/30/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002 - THE MASTER LIST
Hello, It's time to coordinate just a thing or two about GenCon. People who will be staffing the booth and selling their games: Jason Blair and me (obviously), as well…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Michael Hopcroft, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson, Matt Gwinn, Ferry Bazelmans, joshua neff, Jared A. Sorensen, Jake Norwood.

7/30/2002 Clay: Non-mainstream alternative
Clinton, I've done some very nice work using the free tools that come with most UNIX systems. LaTeX handles type like a dream, and if it's coupled with the Hyperref…
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Participants: Clay.

7/31/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Is this usual?
I got my printing invoice today from my printer and it included a 100-copy overrun (10% of the run) for which I was held responsible. It turned out to be…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, xiombarg, Matt Gwinn, GreatWolf, Chris Passeno.

8/2/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Controlling the Effects of Bad Press
As some of you may know, GamingReport.com gave me a less than glowing review. In fact, they were savage. This is not the end in itself -- there will be…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Demonspahn, Chris Passeno, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, Roy, Reimer Behrends, Clay, Marco, Jack Spencer Jr, pigames, tdenmark, John Wick.

8/2/2002 Zak Arntson: Development/Release Cycles
It's frustrating to have a great game that I want to share (at the moment, it's fully playable and fun), but it seems to have so much opportunity for improvement!…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/5/2002 Matt Snyder: GenCon promotion
This is directed mainly at Ron and Jason, but read on, oh brainstormers and fellow GenCon Forge booth sellers ... What, if any, kind of promotion can we do at…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Michael Hopcroft.

8/5/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Last-MInute GenCon Advice
This year's genCon will the the first time I run a booth at a convention. It will be 26 hours before I leave to go to SeaTac airport and fly…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt Gwinn, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/5/2002 Matt Gwinn: GENCON Flyers
I'm trying to work up a Kayfabe flyer for GENCON. Which do you think is more effective: - big pictures with minimal text about the game - minimal pictures with…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/10/2002 Grex: Best of the Forge?
I can't help but notice that many of the games presented here are of a very high quality. I can also see that their brevity makes them hard to market…
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Participants: Grex, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Gwinn, Gonster, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Zak Arntson, Jeffrey Miller.

8/12/2002 Eugene Zee: Congratulations
All, I just want to say that the Forge: Indie-Rpg Publishers booth was amazings. Even though I had my own booth I saw the teamwork displayed. The work that you…
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Participants: Eugene Zee, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, hardcoremoose, Misguided Games.

8/12/2002 Jake Norwood: WWGS...what does it mean...
For those of you that aren't familiar, you HAVE to check out this site: http://www.father-ramos.com it has slow loading times, but is worth a visit. Particularly check out the sermons…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, mahoux, Ron Edwards, WhistlinFiend, Matt Gwinn, Mytholder, Seth L. Blumberg, Clay, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Heraldic Game Design, contracycle, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Michael Hopcroft.

8/13/2002 Michael Hopcroft: 38 Copies Sold, 25 given out, 85 Consigned -- 940 to go?
Well, the grand debut of HeartQuest wass what most indie puiblishers would describe as moderately successful. I sold 38 copies of the game at my first convention and gave out…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Eugene Zee, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards.

8/14/2002 Matt Gwinn: Game design and your resume
I am on the verge of quiting my current job and have started to rework my resume. I would like to include my game design experience, but I am not…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clay, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt, Eugene Zee, Zak Arntson, talespinnerstudios, Dav, Ben Morgan.

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