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5/3/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: The new distribution
All this talking about what makes an independent game naturally gets me thinking about distribution. What methods are available to the independent game artist (yes, that's the new title I'm…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, poppocabba, Gordon C. Landis, Clay.

4/27/2001 JSDiamond: Punks Unite!
I have moved this here, to the publishing forum. "Punks Unite!" -that's our rally cry. Okay, this idea was practiced back in the good old days of gaming and it…
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Participants: JSDiamond, GreatWolf.

4/23/2001 Ron Edwards: Standards for playtesting
One thing I've wondered about for years is seeing enormous lists of names under the "Playtesters" credit in - bluntly - some really lousy role-playing games. How can this be?…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Jared A. Sorensen, JSDiamond, james_west, He who is Q, Clay, Misguided Games, Corporate Dog, FilthySuperman.

4/18/2001 GreatWolf: PDF Publishing
Funny, Ron mentioned this in the Little Fears forum, but it's an idea that I've been kicking around, primarily because of Ron's approach to Sorcerer. What do all of you…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, adobritt, Clay, Dav, Mytholder.

4/9/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Best format for web-published games
When you get a game published on the web (for free or by payment), what is your favorite format? - HTML, of course, is readable by anyone with a browser.…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, ephealy, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, Clay, Dav, seasong, Adam, Misguided Games, Nathan.

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5/7/2001 Jason L Blair: PDF Question
Unlike other apps I'm familiar with, Acrobat doesn't seem to care much about resolution. In fact, the only mention of it I see is for output (printer) resolution. So my…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Dav, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Clay.

5/8/2001 james_west: An exercise in vanity ? (Mildly communist ...)
Having read over this forum, one thing I'm not clear on is the -REASON- for charging for your .pdf As Ron Edwards is quick to point out, the amount of…
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Participants: james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Mytholder, He who is Q, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege.

5/12/2001 Zak Arntson: Web Publishing Model
I've been giving serious thought to doing online RPG publishing. Inspired by Adept Press and Memento-Mori, here's my current plan. I was wondering what y'all thought of it, especially those…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Dav, JSDiamond, Clay.

5/21/2001 JSDiamond: Publishing pencil & paper games on CDs
This is more of a thread grown out of my answer in the New Distribution thread in another forum. It seems to fit here. Jeff Diamond once…
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Participants: JSDiamond, james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Nathan, Clay.

5/31/2001 FSAuthor: Promoting Indie RPGs
Greetings & Well Met, Just wanted to drop a line thanking HF for putting a link up for my site in the library. I also wanted to ask those interested…
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Participants: FSAuthor, Ron Edwards, Dav, Nathan, Clay.

6/1/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: PDF Legitimacy
Much talk has been made about indie RPGs being easier to create and distribute on the web, especially in the .PDF format. Anyway, Monte Cook, author of the 3rd Edition…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, greyorm.

6/6/2001 Nathan: Website Hosting
I wanted to hear everyone's thoughts on website hosting out there. Has anyone found any amazing deals w/ lots of features for very little? How does everyone feel about free…
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Participants: Nathan, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

6/7/2001 Peter: Publishing Method
I know it's probably been thought about and even used... but I just noticed that you can purchase an Office velobinder (a binding machine) for around $100. Most models can…
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Participants: Peter, Nathan, Clay.

6/8/2001 Levekius: How to improve sales performances without (much) tweaks...
Ok, the title was cheesy and I apologize for that. But I wanted to speak about sales for small press business. I noticed that a person from Apophis (Dav, I…
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Participants: Levekius, Clay, Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff.

6/11/2001 JSDiamond: IndieAid at GenCon
Some of us are going, some of us are not going, and some of us are going to be attending as exhibitors. It's the exhibitors I'm addressing herein. Provided I…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Dav, Ron Edwards, unodiablo, Ferry Bazelmans, Jared A. Sorensen, Misguided Games, Jason L Blair.

6/14/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Stupid PDF Question
Heya people, At the risk of having to dodge several truckloads of rotten tomatoes and even less savoury items, I'm going to ask the question anyway. I'm experimenting with Quark…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Dav.

6/20/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Gaming Outpost - Indie Publisher?
I'm not not sure how many folks here are subscribed over at GO, but there was an "unoffical" announcement of a new feature involving posting material and getting paid a…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/21/2001 Nathan: The Basics
Hello, Here is what I am considering: Putting together a series of PDF books/adventures, 32-64 pages in length, and selling them for a price of $4.95 to $7.95. Here are…
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Participants: Nathan, Clay, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Zak Arntson.

6/23/2001 Paul Czege: getting out the reviews
Hey everyone, I've got a question for those of you who've published, or are about to publish. Did you or do you have a strategy for trying to get your…
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Participants: Paul Czege, JSDiamond, Dav, John Wick, Misguided Games, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/24/2001 rpghost: Electronic Sales - Interested?
Hi everyone, I'm try to get a feel for wether there is a market for an idea I have come up with. First, if you don't know already, RPG Host…
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Participants: rpghost, Dav, Nathan, Clay, Jason L Blair, MrCusey, Black Knights.

6/25/2001 Nathan: Pay500 Program
Hello all... Just checking out GMT Games, and they have a real interesting program setup... They post up previews and a synopsis of games that have been on a…
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Participants: Nathan.

6/26/2001 Ian Freeman: Art necessity
I am working on a PDF doc of a game right now and i am wondering how necessarry it is to get visual into the document itself. I have no…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, Matt Gwinn, Clay.

6/29/2001 Nathan: Mystic Ages -- Indie Issue
At least once a month, I hope to do an "indie issue" for Mystic Ages Online (http://www.mysticages.com/) - focusing on indie games, reviews, and the like. The first one is…
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Participants: Nathan, Misguided Games, Dav, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, kwill.

6/30/2001 Peter: Card Games
Does anyone know of any resources for publishing card-based games? Maybe I should email Atlas...
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Participants: Peter.

7/3/2001 Nathan: IndieAid at Other Cons
Hey, had a brainstorm idea... Would you guys pay a small fee to get your games represented at other cons? Reason why - I am going to Uncommoncon at Dallas,…
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Participants: Nathan, GreatWolf, Dav, Misguided Games, Ron Edwards.

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