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11/30/2003 hermes: OT: Anyone know what has happened to RPGNOW?
I know this is somewhat off-topic, but since it is an avenue for many indie-rpg writers to publish and since this is the specific Forge forum where I usually post,…
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Participants: hermes, Gold Rush Games.

11/28/2003 Gold Rush Games: POD printing and distribution
We're rolling out our new Eureka! program, with two separate services available to small press and indie publishers. We offer POD printing and distribution. Whether you print your books elsewhere…
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Participants: Gold Rush Games, Michael Hopcroft.

11/24/2003 Dregg: Teasers and Web Site Promotion
In about a month my web site will have it's Domain attached and it will be ready to rock, but I have a couple of thoughts. I'm planing to use…
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Participants: Dregg, Mike Holmes, abzu, Paul Czege, Gold Rush Games.

11/21/2003 xiombarg: distribution horror stories (and related anecdotes)
I know Ron and many others are on-record as being disgusted with the current RPG distribution system. I couldn't help but think about this as I was browsing the Pulsar…
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Participants: xiombarg, Pramas, HinterWelt, Gold Rush Games.

11/20/2003 Dev: Making a Convention-ready "mix-cd" of rpgs...
I remember's Smith's "ConBust" (a small con) had a freebie CD with some free RPGs and demos on it. I'm looking into having a similar CD for VeriCon (see thread).…
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Participants: Dev, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, gobi.

11/20/2003 gobi: Trailers for RPGs
The thought crosses my mind after seeing this trailer for Robota: Reign of Machines. The opening shot of a trio of skinny semi-humanoid robots treking through the windy desert, clad…
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Participants: gobi, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Chris Passeno, max.lambertini, Matt Snyder, Ben Morgan, Gold Rush Games.

11/19/2003 apeiron: OpenOffice provides a PDF function
@ openoffice is an alternative to ms office, it has most of the functionality of the office suite, but it is open source (free). The latest version of it will…
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Participants: apeiron.

11/18/2003 Lxndr: Art: Does It Matter?
I intially posted here, in the Connections forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8700 looking for someone who could do art and layout, and the conversation sort of took a left turn, and an interesting…
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Participants: Lxndr, Matt Snyder, Valamir, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, quozl, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, matthijs, madelf, A.B.W, Funksaw.

11/18/2003 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon Indy 2004
What are people planning to do for GenCon Idy 2004? I think one of the main reasons people are asking "Whatever happened to Seraphim guard?" is that I wasn't at…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards.

11/15/2003 Dregg: Selling Yourself at the "Table"/Dealers room
First I like to say that the Burning wheel sticker/Cards were a nifty thing, everyone likes stickers and they make a great advertisment. I have been thinking of ways to…
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Participants: Dregg, abzu, jdagna.

11/8/2003 realms_creator: Book binding
I was wondering if anyone has done a RPG book in coil binding? We are in bata testing of our game and this book binding seems to be winning. Just…
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Participants: realms_creator, Chris Passeno, gobi, Valamir, Paul Czege, abzu, jrs, Jack Aidley, madelf, Gold Rush Games, KeithBVaughn, Michael S. Miller, jdagna.

11/7/2003 Mark: Third Party Publisher designation and logo
Quoted from http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8466 (...and moved to a more appropriate place, I hope.) ...this is probably Mark's little joke. As a means of introduction, Mark is not only the creative…
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Participants: Mark, Mike Holmes.

11/7/2003 Marco: Game Promotion Sites
Hi everyone, again, we've got news to post. Where are the good sites to promote RPG news. I have RPG.news, RPG.net, and Pen and Paper. I think RPG Gazette is…
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Participants: Marco, C. Edwards, xiombarg, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

11/4/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Sourcebook, game and pricing
One of ym writers wants to reduce the bulk of his Magnum Opus project in response to guaridans of order's impending publucation of a "Stingy Gamer's Edition" of BESM d20.…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, Lxndr, jdagna, HinterWelt.

10/31/2003 xiombarg: No Press RPG Anthology (II)
Is this project still live? I hope so, because I just sent in a submission...
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Participants: xiombarg, gobi, abzu, Ron Edwards, Matt, Jeph, Lxndr, Rich Forest, quozl, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf.

10/30/2003 Paul Czege: pitching to a retailer
So...Luke's photo of OctaNe, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, and Shades of Earth on display at Pandemonium Books in Boston got me thinking about how I might directly pitch local retailers…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jdagna, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Valamir, abzu.

10/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for opportunties for expansion
I'm looking to expand Seraphim guard's product line even beyond games. Sounds silly, doesn't it? But one of the people I'm working with has just offered to write me a…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

10/28/2003 abzu: Pandemonium Books in Boston
check out what I found at Pandemonium Books in Boston! http://www.burningwheel.org/images/pandemonium_display.jpg The owner, Tyler, is very friendly and open to indies. We spent a good hour talking about BW, GAMA,…
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Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, HinterWelt, madelf, Paul Czege, Cynthia Celeste Miller, taepoong.

10/26/2003 Tzeentch: Print Runs
Is there any advice for determining the size of a print run? Specifically, I would like to avoid having my room filled to the rafters with unsold books if at…
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Participants: Tzeentch, jdagna, taalyn, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Gold Rush Games.

10/24/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Ads for sale or exchange
My next book, Steel Roses, has a scheudled street date (that is, the date the PDF will be uploaded to RPGNow) of November 15th, and it looks like it will…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

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12/2/2003 xiombarg: Supplements and the Tragedy of the Commons
In this thread, we have the following statement from Raven:Ryan, having tied his own dick around d20 and D&D with his stubbornly defended pre-3rd Edition predicitions, as usual can't afford…
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Participants: xiombarg, contracycle.

12/3/2003 pigames: To those who support indie games...
I just wanted to thank everyone who not only supported Active Exploits' first incarnation and its settings, but also all other indie RPGs. If it weren't for all those open…
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Participants: pigames.

12/5/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Darnedest thing from my LGS
I got the flyer from my LGS (www.alteredsts.com, if you're really that curious) and I didn't chuck the collection of D&D anmd Warhammer ads, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh schedules and such…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Kester Pelagius, madelf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/9/2003 btrc: Cheap card game option
Some of you may remember the obscenity-based card game I mentioned in passing at GenCon and had some Forge members involved in the playtest of. Well, "F*ck This!" is now…
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Participants: btrc, Dev, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/11/2003 Dregg: Character Sheets and Software
It's that time... I need to start doing Character sheets for "Bad Muthas" and I'm going through a Dilemma. Besides the Design/Layout Torment, I'm haveing thoughts as to what programs…
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Participants: Dregg, Andrew Martin, Marhault, Dev, MachMoth, Kester Pelagius.

12/11/2003 Marhault: Designing for publication - VS - Designing for personal play
[quote="bifevo"]there would be a big difference between a system that I would use for my own gaming groups and something that I intended to seriously develop.[/quote] This is a quote…
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Participants: Marhault, bifevo, efindel, abzu.

12/13/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Announcing and Pormoting a License
My company is in the process of pursuing three different licnesed properties to do roleplaying games on. One we have agreed to the property holder with on principle -- the…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

12/14/2003 philreed: vs. Monsters White Box Edition
The 24-hour game I wrote, vs. Monsters, is in the middle of an expansion and revision and will be printed as a boxed set next month. It's a limited run…
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Participants: philreed.

12/16/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Adobe InDesign 2: Good tutorial sites?
Hey all- I just ran into a copy of InDesign 2 floating in the office over here, and wanted to use it to make classier character sheets and the like.…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, quozl, sacrosanct, Bob Goat, Mernya, Matt Snyder, Jack Aidley.

12/17/2003 LordSmerf: Question concerning high quality color printing.
Over in the Interesting Space Dogfights thread we tossed around the idea of using computer generated graphics and shots from the Hubble (and other similar sources) as art for a…
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Participants: LordSmerf, jdagna.

10/6/2003 SumDood: Website hosting (split)
Being strictly small time, and extremely cheap, I publish my stuff on the server space provided by my ISP. I think a lot of small time creaters who have a…
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Participants: SumDood, Erick Wujcik, Matt, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Firefly Games, madelf.

12/25/2003 matthijs: What is your goal as a game designer?
There seem to be all these different definitions of success floating around (compiled from several threads): - Total amount of sales from company to distributors - Total amount of sales…
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Participants: matthijs, Valamir, Jack Spencer Jr, gobi, Lxndr, Heather Manley, Andrew Martin, M. J. Young, Zathreyel, Troy_Costisick, AdAstraGames, Comte, steelcaress, adaen, sacrosanct, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss.

1/4/2004 LizardLips: The ethics of game design
I've been tinkering with a design for a while, looking at other games for inspiration. The core mechanic from Savage Worlds fits my design goals perfectly, but I'm thinking of…
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Participants: LizardLips, gobi, anonymouse, Paganini.

1/4/2004 philreed: Getting Stickers/Labels Printed
Any suggestions on a good place to get B&W 5" x 8" stickers/labels printed? Or something close to that size? I need two different ones (front and back of the…
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Participants: philreed, Gordon C. Landis.

1/5/2004 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Miniatures photos
We've recently started working on a post-apocalyptic miniatures game that was designed specifically to allow pretty much any 30mm sci-fi type of miniature to be used. This is handled by…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, anonymouse, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Martin.

1/7/2004 Drifter Bob: New Jack Vance based D20 suppliment
I hope this is a suitible place to post this, I would like to announce the imminent publication of my book for Pelgrane Press, which you can read about here:…
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Participants: Drifter Bob, xiombarg, Michael Hopcroft, Cynthia Celeste Miller, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

1/8/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Finding ways to promote a new license
I have a license deal to annoucne for Seraphim guard and I'm looking for the proper place to do so. I'm going to be doing it next week to concide…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

1/9/2004 abzu: What to do with the Minor Successes?
Hi All, I'm looking for advice. I'm looking for advisement from folks who've had the same experience, suggestions from companies/folks who've "made it", and even a little wishful thinking from…
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Participants: abzu, Jeph, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, ryand, Lxndr, Mulciber, ADGBoss.

1/14/2004 Jack Aidley: Advice on Web Hosting
I'm hoping to be releasing Great Ork Gods as a free .pdf in the near future. To do this I'll require a website. However some time spent searching for good,…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson, Matt, ADGBoss, Christopher Weeks.

1/15/2004 Deadboy: small publisher stuck on the cusp
Hi. My name is Jim Taylor, and I'm representing a small RPG company called Happy Nebula Adventures. We've published two different games, Revelation and War Machine, and have done a…
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Participants: Deadboy, Paul Czege, Valamir, abzu, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, jdagna.

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