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4/14/2010 ConBarba: Your game in other language/market
Hello ConBarba is a new RPG Spanish publishing house. Right now we´re in the early stage of acquiring rights of different games. This is a question for the authors and…
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Participants: ConBarba, Eero Tuovinen.

4/11/2010 Sebastian: [Hell for Leather RPG] Things You Gotta Do Before Printing
In 11 weeks, HfL is going to be launched but I haven't even spoken to a printers yet. What the fuck do I do now? Where do I start? Using…
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Participants: Sebastian, Tomas, Ron Edwards, Gryffudd.

4/11/2010 pells: [Avalanche] - Seeking advices on alpha and beta testing
I do have some ideas, but I need some advices. Current situation and roadmap Avalanche has been a work in progress for almost nine years now. This is the first…
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Participants: pells.

4/9/2010 ronfig: Project Gutenberg Works in the Public Domain
There is a such a wealth a cool, free literature in the public domain at Project Gutenberg.  I have read the usage notes at the end of the works, but…
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Participants: ronfig, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman.

3/20/2010 Darcy Burgess: Hyperlinking within a Document - Help!
Hi, I'm hunting for some hyperlinking help, and I'd like to discuss it over here. Once I've found my solution, I'll pop back in and update this thread. Thanks, Darcy
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Participants: Darcy Burgess.

3/17/2010 preludetotheend: Would you rather go to one big con or a bunch of little con's?
So pretty much just like the subject says; would you prefer to have a booth at one big gaming convention or go to say 4-5 smaller ones. I am thinking…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Malcolm, David Artman, jasonm.

3/15/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Asian printers and who knows anything about them
I have some vague memory of one or two people around here having tried out Chinese printers for their rpg products. I have a non-rpg hardcover book in the pipeline,…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, hix, Gregor Hutton.

3/10/2010 Silver_Dragoon: New indie RPG company
I am very pleased to announce that Spellbook Games is now open for business, ready to supply a variety of interesting and useful aids for the classic games-master, and memorable…
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Participants: Silver_Dragoon, preludetotheend.

3/10/2010 Emily Care: Hardcover recommendations
I'm looking for information on sources of hardcover printing for a game book, other than Lulu. Have you used a different printer? What was the quality like? Cost? Customer service?…
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Participants: Emily Care, Simon C, Gregor Hutton, Malcolm.

2/26/2010 greyorm: [ORX] Creative Commons Release Question
You may have heard that I have been working on a stripped-down version of ORX, which I am very shortly planning on releasing into the commons. However, I haven't decided…
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Participants: greyorm, pells, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, JoyWriter.

2/26/2010 Aus_Specs: Opinions of Designers on Copying Mechanics from other RPGs
Greetings, I am a law student at the University of Chicago, working on a paper to study Intellectual Property ("IP") norms within the RPG industry. Specifically, I'm curious why there…
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Participants: Aus_Specs, Luke, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, HeTeleports.

2/25/2010 noahtrammell: Tell me about lulu
So, I'm developing a game and even though it is a loooong way in the future, I'm looking ahead to publishing.  Lulu looks easy and stress-free.  I'm not looking to…
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Participants: noahtrammell, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Vulpinoid.

2/18/2010 Filip Luszczyk: Controlling PDF Accessibility
Is there a way to display PDF files online without making it possible to save the file itself? That is, impossible without resorting to some m4d h4ck1ng sk1llz, obviously... The…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, greyorm, Jasper Flick, Mike Sugarbaker, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2010 pells: [Avalanche] - Goodies, there should be a way I could use those ?!?
First, let's start with the purpose of this thread, shall we ? - Introduce you to our new illustrator and partner (read associate as in art director), Greg Taylor. -…
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Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen, Luke.

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.

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.

1/12/2010 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.

1/9/2010 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.

1/9/2010 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.

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.

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4/21/2010 MatrixGamer: Musing about the future: 3D Printers
I was just looking at an article on a commercial 3D printer from HP. It will retail for $17,000 (so impossible for individuals now) but the cost will come down.…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, The Magus.

5/1/2010 preludetotheend: Actual on demand screen printing resource.
I just wanted to give those who would like to use merchandise to support their game a heads up about a new service. <a target="_blank" href="http://ondemandscreenprinting.com/members/?vip=64">Get On-Demand Screen Printing</a>. I…
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Participants: preludetotheend.

5/12/2010 mogunus: Collectively Owned Game Store Seeks Indie RPG's of Note
Hello! I volunteer at my local collectively-owned, volunteer run game store (no, really, here's our website: http://www.worldsapartgames.com/) and I'm trying to put together a section of print copies of some…
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Participants: mogunus, lumpley, Paul Czege, Noclue, SaintandSinner, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2010 wickerman: Wrote an RPG game book... now what?
I kept tinkering with RPG ideas from time to time, and my wife encouraged me to get it down in a Word file, and from there I just kept writing,…
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Participants: wickerman, Noclue, Simon C, Eero Tuovinen.

5/14/2010 Pelgrane: Supplying PDFs to Retailers
Inspired by Fred Hicks, I've established a program which allows retailers to give PDFs to their customers, both of existing products and at the pre-order stage. Technically, it's very easy…
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Participants: Pelgrane, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Jason Pitre.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Publishing forum - please read here first
This forum is for a wide variety of discussions about publishing role-playing games. The topics can be how-to, or what-you-have-done, or how-does-it-work, or what-about-this, or just about anything. The only…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/19/2010 Ben: Starting a Biz, but more than a little lost
It has been a long time since my last post, I glad the Forge is still up and going.  Can't believe it has taken me this long to remember you…
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Participants: Ben, Eero Tuovinen, Teppich, Nathan P., Noclue, preludetotheend.

6/27/2010 Dietro: card editor
Because I'm very much used to cards (in Collectible Card Games and Board Games), as opposed to paper, I was in the middle of making a card-based RPG system. I've…
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Participants: Dietro, Ben, Airafice.

7/11/2010 Tomas: Copyright resources (split)
i'm about to release my own game in a few weeks time and what someone from a business registering company told me was that if you don't register yourself as…
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Participants: Tomas, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P..

7/13/2010 Tomas: Business Plan Help.
a kind forum member has taken the time to offer me advice and suggested i start a thread here for my business plan. i'll summarise it here and any help…
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Participants: Tomas, preludetotheend, Noon, Eero Tuovinen.

7/15/2010 Marshall Burns: What's all this ISBN business?
Rustbelt inches ever closer to publication, and I've got me a question: what's the deal with ISBN numbers? What are they for? Where do they come from? Why/when should I…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, jrs, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P., Sebastian, Ron Edwards.

7/16/2010 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] So this is my plan
The Rustbelt first edition has been a zero-budget project. This is due to the fact that I'm poor (although hopefully the game will help with that, or at least keep…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Dan Maruschak, Noon.

7/17/2010 Sage: Continued Sales.
This topic is mostly aimed at those members who've actually had experience of selling games of their own. I'm shortly going to have finished writing my own rpg and am…
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Participants: Sage, Malcolm, guildofblades.

7/17/2010 Ben: "...Prime the ol Marketing Pump" How does that work?
Something GuildofBlades said in a post on the Continued Sales thread (and as quoted above) got me wondering.  How does one create 'buzz' for ones books?  Where does one advertise? …
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Participants: Ben, Malcolm, guildofblades, Noon.

7/19/2010 Sebastian: Tearaway Pads & Folios -> Whacha call'em?
Did you ever buy any of those character sheet pads in the old days so you didn't have to go to the photocopier everyday? Like a 20 leaf pad of…
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Participants: Sebastian, PJK.

7/22/2010 Tayr_an-Naar: When is it stealing?
Howdy all, I have a question, and in case it wasn't evident by my post count, this is my first question.  So I'm not really !00% sure this is the…
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Participants: Tayr_an-Naar, Noon, Miskatonic, guildofblades, Marshall Burns, Gryffudd, Lance D. Allen, Chris_Chinn.

7/29/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria Fantasy Tabletop/Pen and Paper RPG
A very small,independent rpg game company is releasing its first title in september. Please check out the company's website to read more about the game and to see a video…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, richks, Malcolm.

8/6/2010 Amar Woods: I swinging for the fences!
Hello all I'm new here at the Forge, but damn does this site/forum/community rock. I should have found something like this earlier, but my crew is very insular in that…
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Participants: Amar Woods, Eero Tuovinen, Airafice.

8/9/2010 Necromantis: My rule book layout. an interesting new concept.
I have been thinking about how to layout my rule book. I have an interesting concept where the book is basically split into two parts. (not including spells/etc) I am…
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Participants: Necromantis, Jason Pitre, Ron Edwards.

8/9/2010 Jason Pitre: Scribus? (split)
Has anyone been watching Scribus since the last post?  I aspire to produce my game with the program but would much prefer to go for the best version or branch…
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Participants: Jason Pitre, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Clay, arithine, Moganhio.

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