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8/8/2009 jasonm: [Card Printing/Packaging] Hey Tony
Hey Tony! I want to pick your brain about Misery Bubblegum.  I understand you are producing this game as a single deck of cards with 1-2 pages of rules and…
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Participants: jasonm, TonyLB, Tyler.Tinsley, guildofblades, Double King, matthijs, David Artman, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

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.

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.

8/2/2009 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.

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.

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.

7/28/2009 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.

7/27/2009 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.

7/27/2009 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.

7/26/2009 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.

7/22/2009 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.

7/21/2009 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.

7/20/2009 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.

7/17/2009 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.

7/17/2009 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.

7/12/2009 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.

7/10/2009 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.

7/8/2009 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.

7/7/2009 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.

7/6/2009 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.

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8/23/2009 Ben Lehman: The Drifter's Escape: Bound Galleys
I'm not quite sure whether this should be here or in connections. Ron, your call. At long long last, the Drifter's Escape is ready to head to the printers. At…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Alex Fradera, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.

8/27/2009 Sebastian: Marketing & Podcasts
Hi guys, I'm writing a game.  I'm also building a website.  During the creation, design, scheduling and implementation of the RPG project, I thought it would be prudent to keep…
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Participants: Sebastian, Ron Edwards, RobNJ, Nathan P..

9/2/2009 Sebastian: Marketing -> Can you start too early?
Can you start to market your product too early? That's the question. If so, what are the consequences and how can you make sure you get the timing right?  What…
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Participants: Sebastian, Dan Maruschak, preludetotheend, Nathan P., pells, Elizabeth, Luke, Seamus.

9/11/2009 hoefer: What to Think?
First, it was really nice to meet many of you in-person at GenCon!  Thanks for sitdown Ron -very helpful/insightful... To business... I took a break from "working" on game stuff…
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Participants: hoefer, Noclue, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Andy Kitkowski, Noon.

9/12/2009 preludetotheend: Ransom/Pamphlet model
  So I have the rough draft of "Story System: A novel game" and while I connect the dots of it all I want to start gearing up for how…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, chance.thirteen, Noon.

9/12/2009 Seamus: printing in Color and Black and White
We are putting out a fantasy setting and have some color maps we'd like to use in the first few pages. But most printers I have talked to told me…
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Participants: Seamus, pigames, MatrixGamer.

10/2/2009 Seamus: Macs and publishing
I have been thinking of investing in a Mac later next year, but wanted to hear first hand what problems Mac's might present with publishing. I have a PC, but…
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Participants: Seamus, Trevis Martin, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P., Nathan, Jasper Flick.

10/4/2009 Simon C: Using old art
What's the deal with using old public-domain art in games? I'm particularly interested in old Pre-Rahaelite art.  I understand that no-one now owns the copyright on these works, but that…
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Participants: Simon C, greyorm, jrs.

10/12/2009 Noon: A spin on the ransom model
The ransom model doesn't work in my mind, and yet games have been released on it regardless. I'm kind of thinking it's based on how well known the person releasing…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards, jerry, greyorm, GregStolze.

10/15/2009 drkrash: Artist signatures
I have an artist who wants to have a small graphic as a signature, plus a printed signature, plus a website address all on her work.  She wants this for…
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Participants: drkrash, GregStolze, Jasper Flick, Eero Tuovinen, Double King, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

10/15/2009 gandrews: Retail--A good thing?
While the general thoughts here seem to run to self-publishing, print on demand, and PDF solutions, I'd like to discuss the traditional retail possibilities for independent game designers for a…
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Participants: gandrews, guildofblades, Eero Tuovinen.

10/19/2009 Seamus: Product Release, looking to advertise
Our first book is available to order online. It is a counter terrorism role playing game, and I am looking to get the word out without spending too much money.…
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Participants: Seamus.

10/23/2009 Seamus: Cover Color and Texture
Is there an easy way to make covers backgrounds that are more textured and softer in tone than the default color swatches? My art looks great, but the backgrounds could…
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Participants: Seamus, David Artman.

10/28/2009 drkrash: A Tale of Art Acquisition
I'm mostly wrapping up the art process of my present project and I thought I'd share a bit of my story, perhaps as inspiration for those who might despair of…
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Participants: drkrash, Ron Edwards, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Noon.

10/29/2009 greyorm: Point/Success of Publishing Without Community?
One of the most oft repeated pieces of advice heard around the Forge regarding getting people playing your game (and hence getting your game sold) is that in order to…
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Participants: greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, Noon, MatrixGamer, Artanis, preludetotheend, Dan Maruschak, Sebastian, Luke, northerain, KeithBVaughn.

11/5/2009 preludetotheend: The Power of Free
So I have been doing some research for the Serial Design Challenge over in the Endeavor section and figured it was prevalent to the publishing section. A resource I found…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Dan Maruschak, Noon, greyorm, pells.

12/3/2009 Seamus: web site hits
So we have a website and some product out. On a good day we get about 17-20 unique hits (usually when I make an announcment on a forum or run…
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Participants: Seamus, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Luke, Eero Tuovinen, Sebastian, Szandor.

12/3/2009 Noon: Leveraging social sites like stumbleupon/reddit?
Related to http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28830.0 , but moving away from the word 'ransom' even more so. Taking the idea of adsense for some return and leveraging it with stumbleupon, reddit and similar,…
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Participants: Noon, guildofblades.

12/7/2009 Seamus: Reviews
Any advice on seeking reviewers. I want to get more reviews of our game, but am concerned about sending it to people who may not be objective.
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick, Luke.

12/19/2009 Seamus: movie and tv references
I know this subject has been addressed before. But I am working on the final edits of our next book and wanted to get some peoples' thoughts on the subject…
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Participants: Seamus, Ken, Jasper Flick, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Troy_Costisick.

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