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6/30/2003 rpghost: RPGMall at Origins
I was asked how Origins went and I thought I'd copy what I wrote in email here as you people might be interested... First of all, Origins had record attendence…
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Participants: rpghost.

6/30/2003 Ron Edwards: GENCON 2003 - FINAL ORGANIZATION
Hello, It's Forge GenCon Booth update time. From the top ... The three primary companies funding the booth are Adept Press, Arc Dream Publishing, and Driftwood Publishing. The people from…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, jdagna, Matt Gwinn, Michael Hopcroft, lumpley, Nathan, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer, ross_winn, abzu, btrc, Paul's Girl, Mike Holmes, Mario.

6/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for an Origins report
I'm looking for people on the Forge who went to origins this weekend to report in when they get back and tell us: 1. How was the convention? 2. Did…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paul Czege, rpghost, jdagna, Pramas.

6/26/2003 Matt Gwinn: PDF Download Accounts
Well, I started selling the PDFs of my Kayfabe supplements and the new expanded edition. The files ended up being pretty big, so I'm using an account system so buyers…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, ethan_greer, Clay, rpghost, Emmett, Mike Holmes, WDFlores.

6/25/2003 ethan_greer: Game Company: Why?
So, seems like most indie games are published by a game company. Why is this? When I publish Thugs and Thieves to PDF, why would I need a game company?…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, gobi.

6/25/2003 Michael Hopcroft: The competition has entered my turf!
I'm sure Adam Jury, who is on the Forge, can supply us with the full press release, but it appears Guardians of order is going to be selling their out-of-print…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, C. Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, jdagna, Michael S. Miller, ADGBoss, xiombarg, rpghost, Hardpoint.

6/24/2003 Matt Snyder: Free PDF on making PDFs!
Not two hours after ribbing Mike Mearls for his Seminar "activism" at Origins, I went and volunteered to help lead a seminar at Origins. I'll be with Chris Davis of…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, C. Edwards, samdowning, rpghost.

6/19/2003 gobi: Tentative cover concept for PUNK
I was reading through some old threads about RPG cover art and I noticed someone mentioned that the "collage" theme of old-school movie posters, like Indiana Jones and Star Wars,…
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Participants: gobi, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, quozl, samdowning, Lxndr.

6/16/2003 Matt Gwinn: Indexing
At what point does it become necessary to include an index in your game? The expanded edition of Kayfabe is about ready to go to print. I have a page…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, busling, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Fabrice G., Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2003 Space Cowboy: Indie Successes and Failures?
Hey guys, First, I’d like to say that there is an absolute wealth of really useful knowledge here for aspiring game designers. I think that an excellent place to learn…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Michael S. Miller, Nathan, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Christian Walker, samdowning, Michael Hopcroft, Pramas, Malak, jdagna, rafael.

6/12/2003 quozl: Fvlminata publishing
[quote="Michael S. Miller"]Hey, all. I'll be there with the [i]very last copies, ever[/i] of FVLMINATA 2nd Edition, as well as bunches of Tali. [/quote] This should get split out of…
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Participants: quozl, abzu, Jason E. Roberts, Jake Norwood.

6/12/2003 abzu: GenCon Sales and Stock
Hi all. I will be at the Forge booth running demos until I drop. How much stock should I have on hand? This is my first GenCon, and I only…
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Participants: abzu, Matt Snyder, Valamir, rpghost.

6/12/2003 Michael Hopcroft: RPGmall print run Size
Many of you must have gotten a letter from RPGNow saying they need print books from their vendors for their Origins and GenCon booths. It just so happens that although…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna, rpghost, jgbrowning.

6/10/2003 Simon W: Purchasing a license for an rpg
I have approached a company to purchase the rights to produce an rpg based upon one of their authors works and they have come back with a positive response so…
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Participants: Simon W, rpghost.

6/8/2003 Heather Manley: Exclusively online RPG publishing
I posted another version of this on the RPGnet forums, but in more concise form here about publishing: If I want to publish my RPG as a website rather than…
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Participants: Heather Manley, xechnao, Nathan, brainwipe, ethan_greer, gobi, samdowning, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, busling, Clay, wraeththu.

6/7/2003 Christian Walker: Zine circulation figures
I publish a print zine by the name of Scrollworks. It's a 20-24 page digest affair, black and white, saddle stitched. The zine serves the d20 system and has been…
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Participants: Christian Walker, Nathan, James V. West, samdowning, Mike Holmes, Kester Pelagius, abzu, C. Edwards.

6/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Switching Operating Systems and How it Affects a Business
After a disastrous system crash, I no longer trust Microsoft products. As a result, I am now running Red Hat Linux 9. I can;t access any of my old Windows…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Nathan, Trevis Martin, talysman, Catalyst, Clay, ejh.

6/6/2003 Nathan: New Webhosting: RPGShelf.com
Greets folks, For those that don't know, I've been hosting folks for free for a while. I like doing that, but I decided to take it a step further and…
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Participants: Nathan, Sylus Thane, xechnao, Valamir, Adam, Walt Freitag.

6/5/2003 Andy Kitkowski: JUNE: Forge/Indies Release Roadmap for the Summer?
Hey all, just some standard disclaimers and notices: 1) I'm not indicating that Forge games are better than others. It's easy to find a list of up-and-coming mainstream games, but…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Nathan, Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, Peter Nordstrand, Matt Snyder, Michael Hopcroft, brainwipe, samdowning, Cynthia Celeste Miller, rafael, Marco, S.Lonergan, Simon W, JSDiamond, chadu, Jake Norwood, iago.

6/4/2003 Jared A. Sorensen: Warning re: Cafepress
http://www.giveneyestosee.com/say-no-to-cafepress/ I'll be removing my online store tonight.
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Wilson, Alan, Gordon C. Landis, Nathan, samdowning, rpghost.

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7/2/2003 ryand: Submitted for Your Consideration: Changes to ORIGINS Awards
The following is a proposal I intend to submit to GAMA and the Academy for review. Following the widespread dissatisfaction with this year's ORIGINS Award process, I believe rapid, significant…
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Participants: ryand, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Andy Kitkowski, GMSkarka, ethan_greer, Pramas, HinterWelt, Bruce Baugh, kwill.

7/4/2003 chadu: New Game Announcements?
Would this be the appropriate forum to post information about an upcoming game? Or is there a better one? Many thanks in advance, CU
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Participants: chadu, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/4/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Publisher and reatiler -- competing roles?
My immersion into the RPG businbess is getting deeper. I have finally accepted an offer to run an online store selling RPG books, and Hopcroft Hobby games should be open…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jgbrowning, jdagna, Christian Walker, Space Cowboy, kwill.

7/7/2003 ryand: ORIGINS Award Proposal: Revision
After getting a lot of feedback on the section of my proposal involving the selection of the products to be included on the Final Ballot, I am making the following…
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Participants: ryand.

7/10/2003 WDFlores: Indie Web Portal, Anyone?
Hi all, Emmet first posed a suggestion for what might be called an Indie Games Web Portal on this thread. I've quoted the relevant posts below: Maybe a mall of…
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Participants: WDFlores, ethan_greer, Clay, Emmett, Simon W, Paul Czege, rpghost, HinterWelt, quozl, Ron Edwards.

7/10/2003 Christian Walker: RPG Zine Exchange
Christian here, I ran this post by Clinton before posting, just to make sure it was ok. Basically, I'm trying to give RPG print zines a kick in the pants.…
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Participants: Christian Walker.

7/11/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How to deal with a PDF pirate
This happened to another company, not to me, but I was wondering how best I shjould deal with it should it happen to me. As you know, Guardians of Order…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Reimer Behrends, gobi, Adam, greyorm, Bruce Baugh, rpghost.

7/15/2003 talysman: Cafe Press publishing
we've known it was coming soon for a while now, but Cafe Press just put up information on their website about selling print-on-demand books through them. you can do set-up…
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Participants: talysman, rpghost, Paul Czege, jdagna, Mike Holmes, Clay.

7/15/2003 Valamir: Harn and Columbia Games
Well, theres a big thread on RPG.net (as well as the Harn forums) about disputes between the Publisher of Harn (Columbia Games) and the Creator of Harn (Robin Crossby). Regardless…
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Participants: Valamir, greyorm, HinterWelt.

7/16/2003 Ron Edwards: Diana Jones nominees
Hi everybody, Check it out at the Diana Jones website. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Jürgen Mayer, gobi, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, C. Edwards, Ben Lehman, pete_darby.

7/17/2003 pete_darby: Ownership of FORGE derived works...
This is probably displacement activity / an excuse not to write, but... Following this thread, and this thread, which came from this thread, I'm farily raring to develop…
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Participants: pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

7/18/2003 Ron Edwards: GENCON 2003 - BOOTH LOGISTICS
Hello, All right, it's time to discuss logistics. I and a bunch of other people will be arriving on Wednesday, setting up the booth, and probably running into all manner…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Jürgen Mayer, greyorm.

7/18/2003 Jake Norwood: Getting in contact with RPGMall, etc.
I would really like to know how to get your games listed here. Anyone know who I need to contact? Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, GMSkarka, rpghost, Hardpoint, Ron Edwards, Simon W, samdowning.

7/20/2003 rpghost: RPGMall at GAMA?
I'm debating going to Gama next March... it is after all one of the best places to reach the retailers... but I may just settle for an ad in thier…
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Participants: rpghost, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, HinterWelt, Pramas, GMSkarka, iago.

7/22/2003 xiombarg: free/cheap PDF (Pretender PDF as example)
Hey, all. As as a quick search on "PDF" in this forum will show, there's a lot of information here on the Forge about how to produce a PDF on…
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Participants: xiombarg, Kester Pelagius, madelf, contracycle, efindel, Clay, Reimer Behrends, Emily_Dresner, C. Edwards, iago, max.lambertini.

7/22/2003 iago: LLC Experiences
I've been reading through my ePublisher's Guide off and on over the past month or so, and one bit that's been weighing heavily on me is the whole LLC or…
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Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, Valamir, abzu, wraeththu, Jason L Blair, samdowning, Clay.

7/26/2003 Eric Kimball: Custom T-shirts
I was wondering what people thought the best place to get limited run custom t-shirts made. I know cafepress.com does this, but all the hoops the make you jump through…
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Participants: Eric Kimball, Clay.

7/27/2003 permacultureguerilla: Cheezy zine for you.
Anyone is welcome to make a zine from my cheezy role playing game: "It's funny damn it" as long as the content is left the way it is. Really, it's…
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Participants: permacultureguerilla.

7/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: I've just got to know -- how was GenCon
GenCon is over at the time of this writing, and I wasn;t there. Probably just as well as I would have been miserable with all that standing on an injured…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, hardcoremoose, abzu, Jeffrey Miller, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, Space Cowboy, Cynthia Celeste Miller, GMSkarka, Paul Czege, Valamir, Lxndr, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, ethan_greer, Gold Rush Games.

7/28/2003 abzu: Gencon Aftermath: Forged
So I'm home after a whirlwind weekend at Gencon -- my first, by the way -- and all the way home, the merry-go-round of my thoughts kept coming back to…
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Participants: abzu, drozdal, Gordon C. Landis, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Gwinn, Troy_Costisick, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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