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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.

8/6/2010 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.

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.

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.

7/19/2010 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.

7/17/2010 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.

7/17/2010 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.

7/16/2010 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.

7/15/2010 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.

7/13/2010 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.

7/11/2010 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..

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.

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.

6/11/2010 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.

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.

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.

5/12/2010 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.

5/1/2010 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.

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.

4/14/2010 MegaMinis: Free 2D Paper Minis for Indy game designers
    We are now offering single PDF sheets of 2D paper minis from our line. If you want to incorporate them into your game design you have our permission. …
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Participants: MegaMinis, Ron Edwards, preludetotheend.

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8/11/2010 Stregheria Games: Answers and Information For Those That Have Been Asking About My Game.
Sregoneria is a game that's been created to fulfill two criteria: one is to be the game that i would most like to play and two, to hopefully provide me…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.

8/16/2010 Necromantis: Cost for a inDesign/Quarkexpress layout.
Hey guys. I want to start this off by saying that I started this project (my Fantasy RPG) to have something that I enjoyed playing with my group) It has…
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Participants: Necromantis, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

8/16/2010 Amar Woods: Show me the money!!! Please...
Hey hope all you guys out there are enjoying life, I know I am. I've been working on 2 paper and pencil rpgs for a while now and it is…
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Participants: Amar Woods, Paul Czege, Chris_Chinn.

8/17/2010 Jason Pitre: Use of canon characters within games
I am quite uncertain which forum is ideal for this topic, but publishing seems to be close enough. My game is built on the principle of adaptability, enough that a…
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Participants: Jason Pitre, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

8/21/2010 Sonja: is IndiePressRevolution website down?
I wanted to buy some ebooks, but the website seems to have been down yesterday and today.
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Participants: Sonja, Jason Pitre, epweissengruber.

8/22/2010 LandonSuffered: Thank You to Everyone
My reading and posting of the Forge forums have been light the last 18 months or so as I've been working on my own blogging and publishing endeavors, mainly dealing…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Jason Pitre, Gryffudd, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

8/23/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria RPG Forum
I've just finished organising the Stregoneria RPG forum and it is now open to join. It is not an open forum but one dedicated to my own role-playing game only.…
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Participants: Stregheria Games.

8/27/2010 preludetotheend: Free Advertising
Hey folks I just wanted to make it known here that I am testing out some Project Wonderful ads on the official m20 kobold enterprise forum and wanted to let…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Noon.

8/29/2010 Stregheria Games: Reviews.
My rpg is about to go into print in a few weeks time and I'm a bit confused about the reviewing process. A game without some sort of internet awareness…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Nathan P., Chris_Chinn.

8/30/2010 Stregheria Games: FREE Copies of the Stregoneria RPG PDF up for Grabs!
As a promotional offer to coincide with the release of my Stregoneria RPG, I'm giving away 3 copies of the rulebook .pdf absolutely free.. All you have to do is…
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Participants: Stregheria Games.

9/1/2010 Stregheria Games: To Charge or Not to Charge?
I read somewhere (might have even been on this forum) that some writers give the .pdfs of their games away for free with a view to making money if people…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Chris_Chinn, greyorm.

9/3/2010 RedPissLegion: Independent Online publishing setup
Hi everyone, I play RPGs for years now (gezz, almost ten) but only recently did I decide to dwelve into the world of game design. Has a result I have…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, Chris_Chinn, Clay, PiousFraud.

9/3/2010 Gunnox: Do you think I can use this mechanic legal?
Hi i'm new here to the forge and are currently working on my tabletop RPG called DrakeStrike which can be found on drakestrike.webs.com. Anyway do you think I can use…
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Participants: Gunnox, VAgentZero, Chris_Chinn.

9/21/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria RPG Latest News and Big Changes!
Big changes have been afoot since my last post about the game: the Stregoneria rulebook will now have the 'Blood on the Battlefield' supplement integrated into it and will also…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, Chris_Chinn.

9/25/2010 Paco Garcia: New online magazine open to entries and articles
Hello Everyone, I have started recently an online magazine called G*M*S Magazine (http://www.gmsmagazine.com/). I have started the magazine to promote gaming and I'd love it to be a level field…
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Participants: Paco Garcia, Jason Pitre.

10/3/2010 PiousFraud: Is Create-A-Space a Good Place to Publish?
So I’m a New Independent developer working on a new project with a few friends. I know a few friends who produced web comics who publish through Amazon’s create-a-space in…
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Participants: PiousFraud, Ron Edwards, Nathan P., visioNationstudios.

10/6/2010 mreuther: Distribution Questions
Hi, I'm Mathew, and this is my first post here on The Forge. I've got a question regarding the distribution of games which was actually spawned by reading over at…
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Participants: mreuther, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

10/7/2010 mreuther: Industry Web Standards (Thoughts)
This is not entirely a rant, per se, but it's not entirely simply a point of discussion. See, I've just spent about the last six hours looking at publishing websites.…
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Participants: mreuther, Paul Czege, Chris_Chinn, preludetotheend.

10/7/2010 Stregheria Games: Box or Book?
The Stregoneria RPG will be being released public playtesting has finished on an internet forum site and I'm torn between 2 possibilities: a boxed set or a softback book. Making…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, mreuther, Jason Pitre, Chris_Chinn.

10/9/2010 Gunnox: I don't know where to start...
I dont know what I should write at the first page with text... Should I start with "Enter the fictional world of..." or "LichScape is a..." or what do you…
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Participants: Gunnox, mreuther, Ron Edwards, KeithBVaughn.

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