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7/2/2009 ShallowThoughts: How do you know when you're designing for your audience or yourself?
Hi folks, this post might have been more appropriate in "First Thoughts", but I decided to put it here for some grounding. I've met many, and heard about many, many…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Jake Richmond, Lance D. Allen.

6/30/2009 drkrash: Complete and Utter Noob Question - sorry in advance
Hello everyone. I'm new here, though I have lurked a tiny bit from time to time. This year, I completed my first gaming book for an existing game line (Dread:tFBoP). …
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Participants: drkrash, Vulpinoid, jasonm.

6/25/2009 Ron Edwards: Game parameters icons (Euro-style)
Does anyone know how to find and use those icons frequently seen on the backs of European games? They denote number of players, minimum age suggested, time to play, difficulty,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Chris S, Eero Tuovinen.

6/23/2009 Seamus: Illustrator Programs for making diagrams
I need to draw some diagrams of the combat grid and miniatures for our combat system. I believe I need an illustrator program to do this. But we can't afford…
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Participants: Seamus, Wordman, Selene Tan.

6/22/2009 Zzarchov: New Publishing Concept: Electronic Format, non-PDF.
One of the RPG's im working on,  I chose to put out in the format of a rules viewer program instead of a PDF.  This means a program you launch…
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Participants: Zzarchov, chance.thirteen, Eliarhiman6, jerry, Wordman, Clay, btrc.

6/20/2009 Seamus: Copyright: Naming characters from movies, television and books
Is it okay to mention the name of a major character from a television series, film or book to illustrate a point. In the character creation section of our rule…
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Participants: Seamus, Tyler.Tinsley, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, David C, Gregor Hutton, RabbitHoleGames.

6/18/2009 neneoracle: Advice required before the next step
For all on the Forge, I have been developing a Final Fantasy TTRPG for the last three years. It started while I was at university, going through a number of…
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Participants: neneoracle, Eero Tuovinen, hoefer, Airafice, wizopizo.

6/16/2009 noahtrammell: Publishing and Distribution Settings
  I also had a couple of questions about publishing.  If I release my game as a pdf, what services can I use to distribute it, and how do I…
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Participants: noahtrammell, Clay.

6/16/2009 noahtrammell: Legal Questions
  Hey.  I was just reading the Copyright Resources topic, and in particular the section on open licenses.  I was wondering if someone could give me a quick rundown of…
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Participants: noahtrammell, Eero Tuovinen.

6/16/2009 SaintandSinner: Copyright on personal use
Hi everyone, I looked through the copyright sticky but didn't see an answer to my question.  We have a home made PDF that we'd like to print and have bound…
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Participants: SaintandSinner, Ben Lehman, Tim C Koppang, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Vordark, ModusVivendi, hoefer.

6/15/2009 Double King: seriously cheap Letterpress business cards
saw this on a few design forums this morning and thought i would pass it along here.  typically the buy-in on letterpress work is about $300 or so.  (this isn't…
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Participants: Double King.

6/15/2009 Seamus: Problems in INdesign
I started my first real attempt at a layout on INdesign, and encountered some problems the manual does not appear to cover: 1) Single Line being segregated from rest of…
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, Carnifex, Airafice, Nathan P..

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.

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.

6/13/2009 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.

6/12/2009 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.

6/8/2009 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.

6/6/2009 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.

6/3/2009 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.

6/2/2009 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.

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7/5/2009 RabbitHoleGames: Multiple Games down the Rabbit Hole
As I said in the Modus Vivendi thread, this is the user formerly posting under that moniker. My wife and I comprise the company of Rabbit Hole Games & Design.…
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Participants: RabbitHoleGames, preludetotheend, Fatespinner.

7/6/2009 MuseOfLife: Embedding Fonts II (split)
A lot of pdf creators do not support 64-bit OS. Month ago I have discovered Free PDF Converter in the net. It works perfectly on my 64-bit XP.
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Participants: MuseOfLife, Ron Edwards.

7/7/2009 Seamus: Stock Art Download Problem
I just purchased some stock art on RPGNow. It is affordable, which is good. But when I finished my download all the images were under 100 dpi (they are B&W…
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen.

7/8/2009 drkrash: [Trademarks] Cosmopolitan the Role-Playing Game
OK, so the subject line is a little misleading. I've had a game for 13 years that I have finally decided to get off my duff and publish this year.…
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Participants: drkrash, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, MatrixGamer.

7/10/2009 preludetotheend: Making sure I understand the process to lay a book out.
Ok so I have NEVER EVER done layout of a book and want to make 100% sure that I do this correctly so I would appreciate any help from those…
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Participants: preludetotheend, RabbitHoleGames, Eero Tuovinen, MatrixGamer.

7/12/2009 Seamus: Editors, how many do you use for each project
Just curious how many editors others normally hire for their projects. Is it okay to have a single editor take care of big edits and the copy edits?
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Participants: Seamus, Adam Dray.

7/17/2009 Seamus: Lightning Source and Files
Has anyone here sent in files to lightning source. Any advice? I looked at their file creation sheet, and am a little unclear. For example, the sheet makes it look…
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Participants: Seamus, RabbitHoleGames, reason.

7/17/2009 hoefer: Any thoughts on pricing a book?
Well, I'm going to press getting ready for GenCon and all the sudden (especially with the economy in the US) I'm having second thoughts on my price structure.  I've got…
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Participants: hoefer, preludetotheend, greyorm, Selene Tan, Lance D. Allen, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege.

7/20/2009 Dantai: [Labyrinths & Lycanthropes] New release & marketing advice
Hi there all, just wanted to give the heads up on my latest game : Labyrinths & Lycanthropes. A RPG of Loot & Legends! It's a pacey comedic dungeon bash…
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Participants: Dantai, MatrixGamer.

7/21/2009 drkrash: Bad art vs. no art vs. inappropriate art
Art question here. I'm working on a manga-themed project right now (and I use the term very loosely here), which obviously has an extremely distinctive look to it. I also…
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Participants: drkrash, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jake Richmond.

7/22/2009 Seamus: Embedding Fonts and Images- INdesign
In INdesign, do how do I embed the fonts and images before making a PDF? Does INdesign do it automatically when it created the PDF file?
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Participants: Seamus, hoefer.

7/26/2009 Sebastian: First Questions - Should I self publish?
Hello, I'm new to this industry.  I don't plan to make it big, but I love designing games.  I think I've come up with something tasty and, like all the…
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Participants: Sebastian, Lance D. Allen, preludetotheend, Ben Lehman, MatrixGamer, HeTeleports, greyorm, Selene Tan.

7/27/2009 preludetotheend: simple question (I think) on open office
Hey folks so finishing up my digital ashcan and I have decided not to tackle anything like indesign or scribus yet so I had a couple questions on the best…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Patrice.

7/27/2009 Seamus: POD Printing and color interior
Does anyone know a POD publisher that lets you have a few color interior pages, without charging color for the whole book?
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Participants: Seamus.

7/28/2009 MatrixGamer: I'm really liking Adobe Illustrator!
Previously I've done my cover art layout in Photoshop but for my latest game I've been doing it in Illustrator. All I can say is wow! I've always been slow…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Airafice.

7/31/2009 RobNJ: Chaosium's Cthulhu license?
Hey folks, I've heard rumor that Chaosium claims to be able to license the word "Cthulhu" for use in role playing game publications. Is that true? Given that HPL's shit…
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Participants: RobNJ, Adam Dray, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, chance.thirteen.

7/31/2009 Togman1: Superior POD launches PUBLISHERS WAREHOUSE
Superior POD has officially launched our PUBLISHERS WAREHOUSE. You can now print, publish and sell your product designs all in one place! Superior POD acts as your warehouse and order…
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Participants: Togman1, Tyler.Tinsley.

8/2/2009 Simon C: istockphoto and POD
I'm a little troubled by this line of text in istockphoto's license conditions: License restrictions Here is what you cannot do with either a Standard or Extended license: Prohibited…
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Participants: Simon C, Nathan P., Lance D. Allen.

8/5/2009 Ron Edwards: [S/Lay w/Me] Wham Bam
Sometimes something comes along, mentally, which makes me willing to take risks. It's happened again this year. Late in 2008, Sean (username Calithena here and elsewhere) contacted me to write…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.

8/5/2009 reason: thoughts on Lulu vs Lightning Source
Publishing The Later Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed is as much a learning endeavor as anything else. Learn layout, learn the PDF culture, learn POD, learn printing culture. So here…
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Participants: reason.

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