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5/1/2009 Togman1: T.O.G. Entertainment Inc. adds “PRINT ON DEMAND” Capabilities
T.O.G. Entertainment Inc., publisher of Shattered Sword Fantasy Battle Card Game, has added “PRINT ON DEMAND” capabilities in the form of Superior POD. “It was the right move for us.…
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Participants: Togman1, JayKriz.

5/1/2009 JimLotFP: Approaching Vendors
'allo all... A lot has changed since I last came here looking for advice. I scrapped plans for my own game after playtesting fizzled, but have since started doing things…
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Participants: JimLotFP, Eero Tuovinen, Noclue.

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.

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.

4/18/2009 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.

4/14/2009 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.

4/14/2009 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.

4/9/2009 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.

4/8/2009 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.

4/8/2009 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.

4/6/2009 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.

4/5/2009 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.

4/2/2009 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.

4/1/2009 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.

4/1/2009 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.

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.

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.

3/15/2009 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.

3/12/2009 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.

3/11/2009 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.

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5/8/2009 Seamus: Draw Straight Line in INdesign
How do I make straight lines in INdesign. They always come out crooked.
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Participants: Seamus, jasonm, Matt Snyder, Carnifex.

5/10/2009 ShallowThoughts: PDF Writer availability??
Hello folks, excuse me if this is in ignorant question. I hear about a lot of indie companies publishing via PDF. As far as I'm aware, that can only be…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, jerry, Pelgrane, visioNationstudios.

5/11/2009 Graham Walmsley: Could someone help me out with PDF printing problems?
I'm having real problems printing a PDF through Lulu. I submit a PDF, they send me an anonymous error message. I submit a new PDF, they send me the same…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Paul Czege, btrc, visioNationstudios, Carnifex, David Artman.

5/12/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Survey] The 2009 Collective Endeavour Survey
As part of the ongoing review of the services provided through The Collective Endeavour (http://www.collective-endeavour.com/), we would like to gather some information from the people who use our website and…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton.

5/18/2009 Vordark: Scribus?
I've had a fair amount of experience with "free" software and am strongly of the opinion that such software is only free if your time has no value. I'm looking…
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Participants: Vordark, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, jerry, David Artman, redalastor, dauvis, Selene Tan, greyorm, reason, Clay.

5/22/2009 raidzuo: I made a card game.
I made a CCRPG (collectible card role playing game) for my players as a replacement for DnD and I want to print it en mass and possibly publish it. Should…
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Participants: raidzuo, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Tyler.Tinsley, preludetotheend.

5/26/2009 Seamus: Master pages and Text Frames in INdesign
I am trying to create Text Frames in my master page that will repeat thoughout the document so that I can add text. But the program won't let me. If…
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Participants: Seamus, Ben Lehman, Luke, Wordman, Eero Tuovinen.

5/28/2009 Vulpinoid: Word-of-Mouth Incentive Plan
I've just picked up some work with one of the companies that produces customer loyalty cards. The kind where you earn points for your purchases and once you earn enough…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen.

5/31/2009 Seamus: Photoshop: Do I really need it and why?
So I am getting ready to layout my first book in INdesign. Done several dry runs without art. Our illustrations and cover art will be ready soon. People tell me…
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Participants: Seamus, reason, Ben Lehman, Vordark, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, Double King, Carnifex, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2009 raidzuo: DIY small scale card game for less than 1 cent a card
50 blank cards for $1.75 for a deck of 50. http://www.eaieducation.com/530658.html 100 sheets of inkjet sticker paper for $19.00 http://www.ldproducts.com/Compatible,Photo-Paper,HYPSTICK100,Yellow,,1238,product.html If you print 9 cards; 3.5 X 2.5 on one…
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Participants: raidzuo.

6/1/2009 Clay: Indie games & the FLGS
Just wanted to drop a note in here to mention that Indie games are getting a lot of traction in the local game stores.  I went into two different stores…
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Participants: Clay, Eero Tuovinen.

6/2/2009 one_monkey: Printing the No Dice RPG
Hi, Didn't really know where else to drop this but I figured it could be useful to people considering Lulu as a publish on demand service. We've just this week…
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Participants: one_monkey, Ron Edwards.

6/2/2009 MatrixGamer: New business model - The Artist/Craftsman Game Business
I've been kicking around ideas on how to proceed with my game business. I want to make money and have tried out many product formats and have sold lots of…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, preludetotheend, slingshot.

6/3/2009 David Artman: What Does "POD" and "Short Run" Mean in 2009?
In another thread:... POD board and box making at print runs starting at 100 units.I couldn't help but double-take. I have always used "POD" as "Print On…
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Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, iago, MatrixGamer.

6/6/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: kick starter, maybe a way to fund indie RPGs?
http://www.kickstarter.com/ The basic idea is that people who need funding for their project can post it to kick starter and then other people will provide funding in exchange for something…
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Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, Wordman, Clay.

6/8/2009 Seamus: Affordable art resources
I am trying to find affordable art resources for publishing. Basically we can pay for a minimal amount of art, but can't afford enough to fill most of our books.…
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Participants: Seamus, preludetotheend, slingshot, Selene Tan.

6/12/2009 Seamus: Page count and word count
I am trying to calculate the page count of our first book. Its about 36,000 words right now, will probably end somewhere between 40,000-50,000. I know for novels the average…
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, David C.

6/13/2009 JimLotFP: Designing a PDF
I just finished layouts and putting together a couple copies of my latest project (fantasy adventure) to send to overseas distributors (Eero, I haven't forgotten your message and you'll certainly…
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Participants: JimLotFP, Vordark, Clay, Wordman, David Artman, btrc.

6/14/2009 hoefer: Help with PDFs from InDesign CS4
Hey gang, I've recently switched to the CS4 package from CS2 and I'm noticing that when I have an image in the background, behind another image I can sort of…
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Participants: hoefer, Carnifex.

6/15/2009 Morbius_of_Oz: Large Map Printer Wanter
Can anyone here recommend a printer who can print larger maps? Thanks very much, Craig J. Brain
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Participants: Morbius_of_Oz, Wordman, David Artman.

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