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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.

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.

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.

9/11/2009 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.

9/2/2009 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.

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..

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.

8/20/2009 Seamus: Advertising
We're putting out our first book in December, a modern RPG with it's own system. Not sure the best place to put ads for this sort of thing. Also not…
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Participants: Seamus, Luke.

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.

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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.

12/21/2009 Seamus: Microsoft Word: Problem with tracking changes
I just encountered a very strange problem with tracking changes on microsoft word, maybe someone here knows what the source is. My editor sent me back an edited manuscript (no…
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Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman.

12/21/2009 MatrixGamer: Color Printing question - for Ryan at GOB
You said that you have printers that don't need varnish after printing. Can you tell me more about them? What sizes do they print? What is the quality? How much…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, fernando.

12/25/2009 noahtrammell: Licenses and other pesky stuff
  So I'm considering using FATE for a game.  Could anyone give me a quick explanation of how the OGL works?  Are there any quirks I should be aware of …
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Participants: noahtrammell, Dan Maruschak, Ron Edwards.

1/9/2010 LandonSuffered: ISBN Price Question
Why do ISBNs have different prices depending on where you buy them? Lulu (YourISBN)  $99.98 myidentifiers.com $125 CreateSpace $0?? Is there some sort of different quality of ISBN you're getting…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, guildofblades.

1/9/2010 drkrash: Embedding of Fonts in PDF
I've tried to find an answer by searching the forum, but I didn't quite find it. I have a font that I want to use for headings in my PDF. …
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Participants: drkrash, trick, David Artman.

1/12/2010 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] trepidations about illustrations
I want the 1st edition of Rustbelt to have illustrations. I don't have the money to pay an artist -- I mean, AT ALL. My budget for this project is…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, JoyWriter, Jasper Flick, Charlie Gilb, Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, Luke, davidberg.

1/13/2010 Eero Tuovinen: A quick question about the Indie RPG Bookshelf
I'm finally laying out my World of Near in pdf form, and at this point it seems that the pdf file will be somewhat too large for distribution as a…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Eliarhiman6, Ben Lehman.

1/22/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: So BARBAREN! will be in English, but not self-published
Hi there, Those of you who have been following BARBAREN! might be interested that it's finally going to be published in Engish (the German version was released in October). We…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Tim C Koppang, Emily Care, KeithBVaughn.

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