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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.

7/26/2003 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.

7/22/2003 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.

7/22/2003 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.

7/20/2003 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.

7/18/2003 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.

7/18/2003 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.

7/17/2003 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.

7/16/2003 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.

7/15/2003 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.

7/15/2003 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.

7/11/2003 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.

7/10/2003 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.

7/10/2003 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.

7/7/2003 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.

7/4/2003 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.

7/4/2003 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.

7/2/2003 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.

7/2/2003 ADGBoss: Advertising and Reviews
If you have a project that you are going good and steady on and should be done on time, how do you solicit reviews of the material and where can…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Matt Gwinn, Matt, rpghost, Christian Walker, Brand_Robins.

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.

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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.

7/28/2003 ethan_greer: RPG publishing in 'zine format
So I'm thinking about how I'm going to publish my game, and I think I want to go the 'zine route. I'm thinking I'll go to Kinkos, CopyMax, or some…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Andy Kitkowski, Clay, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, groovybuddha, Matt Gwinn, madelf.

7/28/2003 ethan_greer: RPG Vanity Press (split from RPG publishing in 'zine format)
Over in this thread I'm talking about my imminent forray into RPG publishing. This here thread is to talk about that sales thing. In composing my reply to Andy who…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Matt Snyder, HinterWelt, Hardpoint.

7/29/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How special interest can you get?
One of the things publishers do is go to local and regional conventions to promote their ideas. Well it just so happens that I found a con so specialized that…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, jdagna, lumpley, Jake Norwood, badsign_98.

7/30/2003 abzu: The Forge Out of the Box
Check out Ken Hite's column about GenCon: http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=71 scroll down to the 2nd paragraph after City of Goths! Congrats Vincent, Paul and Greg!! -L
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Participants: abzu, Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

7/30/2003 Paul Czege: making My Life with Master a sellable pdf
Hey everyone, So, I'm getting things situated for selling My Life with Master as a pdf download. And what I'm starting with are the files I delivered to my printer:…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Chris Passeno, sben, Matt Wilson, Matt, Trevis Martin, Matt Gwinn, Matt Snyder, szilard, abzu, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, samdowning.

7/31/2003 Shreyas Sampat: What does an editor need to do?
Um... the topic basically says it. What kinds of things is an editor expected to accomplish, and what sort of procedures are edotirs expected to follow doing so?
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, Clay, HinterWelt, Matt.

8/1/2003 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon
I think everybody at the booth knew that this was going to happen. Congrats, Paul! -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, ejh, Rob MacDougall, Jürgen Mayer.

8/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon SoCal -- will there be a Forge presence?
Are there enoughn Forge publishers on the West Coast to make a Forge booth or presence at GenCon SoCal this year worthwhile, or should we wait until next year to…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, samdowning, jdagna.

8/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Dragonflight in Seattle
Are any member of the Forge plannint ot at Dragonflight August 15-17 in Seattle?
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, samdowning, Jeffrey Miller, jdagna.

8/4/2003 Dav: You guys are nutz
Okay, so I've noticed something completely odd about you Forgite booth babes... You are odd. I mean that. No, really. With the exception of Jurgen (who is all sorts of…
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Participants: Dav, iago, Adam, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, madelf, Heather Manley, Clay, hardcoremoose, jdagna.

8/5/2003 Jeffrey Miller: GenCon Wrap-Up from Peter Adkinson
An open letter from Peter about the good and the bad bits of GenCon '03. Interesting to see "management" being very sensitive to the issues that we ourselves pointed out…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller.

8/6/2003 Matt Snyder: If you love your game, set it free....
I posted the free PDF playtest of Nine Worlds to all and sundry yesterday. I was of two minds about this. I had much success releasing Dust Devils as a…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Clay, Michael Hopcroft, Lxndr, Matt, heironymous, Bankuei, ejh, contracycle, Clinton R. Nixon, Brian Leybourne.

8/6/2003 Dev: Publishing a setting for multiple systems
So many great systems out there! You kids are amazing! The space setting I was working on ("SpacerPunk": gotta better name?) would work great for any one of them, and…
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Participants: Dev, iago, btrc, simon_hibbs.

8/6/2003 GB Steve: Going International - The Forge at Dragonmeet?
Will there be a Forge presence at Dragonmeet? Some of us UK fanzine editors, the boys and girls from Critical Miss, KMANT, the Black Seal, Demonground and Aus fanzine editors…
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Participants: GB Steve, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs.

8/7/2003 Space Cowboy: Increasing bargaining power- collective bargaining
Hey all, I wanted to float an idea that occurred to me today: How feasible is it for small game companies to get together to make common/similar purchases, increasing bargaining…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Mike Holmes, HinterWelt, iago, gobi, Simon W, Ron Edwards.

8/8/2003 Valamir: Gen Con 2003 Spreadsheet summary
Ok, I finally finished digging through the various receipts and cash sheets and cobbling together a master spreadsheet of GenCon 2003 Forge Sales. I will make it available to anyone…
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Participants: Valamir, jrs, Ron Edwards, Armin D. Sykes.

8/9/2003 Jonathan Walton: New Logo (suggestions welcome)
This is the kind of thing I would put in my own forum if I had one. But I don't. Yet. http://www.godmachine.org/1002.jpg This came to me a couple days ago.…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt Snyder, C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, ethan_greer, Lxndr, Jack Spencer Jr, iago, Paul Czege.

8/9/2003 AgentFresh: Anthology meets Magazine
The talk over in Space Cowboy's Collective Bargaining about anthology type publishing made me remember an idea I had the other day. This passage in Ron Edwards' "The Nuked Apple…
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Participants: AgentFresh, iago, ethan_greer.

8/10/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Is it possible to have too many ideas?
If you're an e-publisher who doesn;t have to spend $1,000 to publish each book, is it possible to have too many game and/or supplement ideas, especially when you don't know…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna, Ron Edwards, Thomas Tamblyn, pete_darby.

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