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3/3/2004 Dregg: Convention Dreams and the Indie Designer
I was speaking with the Chair of one of the 3 major NJ Conventions and a good point was brought up. I am posting this thread, as basicaly a Info…
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Participants: Dregg, Matt Gwinn, abzu, inthisstyle, jdagna, M. J. Young.

3/2/2004 abzu: UberCon 3 Report
UberCon 3 was this weekend. In the past, there have been a number of problems with this con -- low attendance and non-existent organization were the big demons -- but…
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Participants: abzu, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Dregg, inthisstyle, taepoong, nerdnyc.

3/1/2004 Steve Samson: GenCon 2004 newbie questions
I've never been to GenCon, but I'd like to make the trip this year. I went to DunDraCon once a few years back, but that's my only experience with gaming…
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Participants: Steve Samson, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2004 Matt Gwinn: Special Gencon Request
Gencon this year is going to be a little different for me and my fiance; We will technically be on our honeymoon (Getting married on the 14th). I'd really like…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Dav, Bob McNamee.

2/21/2004 Dev: Noreascon 2004 info
[b][url=http://www.noreascon.org/]Noreascon[/url][/b] is Sept 2-6th in Boston, MA. I just wanted to share that a contact of mine (ranma1224@yahoo.com) is running the game room. Apparently, you don't have to pay for…
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Participants: Dev.

2/21/2004 M. J. Young: Ubercon III
I'm surprised not to see a thread on this here. I will be at Ubercon III next weekend in the NY Metro area; I will be running a Legends…
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Participants: M. J. Young, inthisstyle, abzu, Dregg, Thor Olavsrud, urbwar.

2/20/2004 Zathreyel: [GenCon 2004] Questions
heya everyone! i'm planning on being at GC:Indy this year and would love to get involved with the ubertable that you guys have boiling up here. I'm hoping to have…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, coxcomb, Jake Norwood, Trevis Martin, Matt Gwinn, daMoose_Neo, Lxndr, Tav_Behemoth, Valamir, Nev the Deranged, Wolfen, Mike Holmes.

2/20/2004 ksarith: MidSouth Con
MidSouth Con is approaching... last week in March... In Memphis... I was Curious if anyone has the details of this convention other than these minor details. Ksarith
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Participants: ksarith, Jake Norwood.

2/19/2004 RaconteurX: Penguicon 2.0
Surf over to the Penguicon homepage for details on this quirky little celebration of geekdom. Seems that it would be a marvelous place to showcase indie games. I plan to…
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Participants: RaconteurX.

2/18/2004 coxcomb: [GenCon 2004] Demo advice
Hi All, It looks like good chances of my having a product to sell at GenCon this year, and I am thinking about going in on the Forge booth ($100…
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Participants: coxcomb, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, AdAstraGames, jdagna.

2/18/2004 Bob Goat: [GenCon 2004] $100, $200, and exhibitor badges
Hi, Maybe I'm just slow, but I am trying to clarify this booth/badge deal. I want to buy in to the booth and sell my game, but I'm not sure…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2004 ethan_greer: [Gencon 2004] Not going all the way
Hi. Due to bad planning, and untimely health issues, I'm not going to be able to make all of Gencon this year, as I had planned. I'm assuming this precludes…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Ron Edwards.

2/11/2004 AdAstraGames: GenCon Booth
I have requested (with diagrams) that Ad Astra and The Forge have adjacent booths, so I can bring the shelving units to share.
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Ron Edwards.

2/10/2004 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2004]
Hello, Now that we have the booth, the next issue that crops up is crash-pad space. It might seem premature, but as it happens, once you register, then you get…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Dav, Lxndr, abzu, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Brian Leybourne, Michael S. Miller.

2/10/2004 celticboy: Booth traffic at Origins
My name is Andrew Lockwood, the RPG Director for Origins 2004. I was reading your post about low booth attendance, and I wanted you to know that Origins 2004 has…
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Participants: celticboy, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, jdagna.

2/2/2004 abzu: Vericon Wrap Up
Vericon was a very interesting con for me. (alliteration/consonance intentional). It was, from what I could tell, a lightly attended "school con". (It actually felt more like a movie set…
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Participants: abzu, lumpley, ks13, Clinton R. Nixon, Dev.

1/31/2004 M. J. Young: Giving Prizes
O.K., this is weird, but I'm asking for ideas/advice. I was registering to run a few games at UberCon, and one of the questions was whether any prizes would be…
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Participants: M. J. Young, A.Neill, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, C. Edwards, james_west, Dregg, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Helvetian.

1/29/2004 WGPTrey: Promotions
If you folks wish to get together and either co-exhibit or co-market on a more permanent basis: Have you pondered putting together a one-page promo for all of your companies…
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Participants: WGPTrey, M. J. Young.

1/27/2004 eruditus: PoliCon 2004 in April
Hi folks. Its that time of year. I hope you could join us this year for PoliCon/MepaCon 2004. For information on what last year's PoliCon had and what it's all…
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Participants: eruditus, Mike Holmes, Christopher Weeks.

1/26/2004 WGPTrey: Demo tables / dealer tables (split)
[quote="Christopher Weeks"]I wonder what the cost/benefit looks like by dramatically reducing the cost of being a "dealer" (perhaps to nothing) at one of these cons. If you could get more…
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Participants: WGPTrey, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

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3/25/2004 New Dimension Games: New games
Greetings to all! New Dimension Games is thankful to be welcomed into the fold here at The Forge. As we are a new company, we'd like to hear from fellow…
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Participants: New Dimension Games, daMoose_Neo, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

3/29/2004 abzu: ICON 23 (2004) Report
[url=http://www.iconsf.org] ICON[/url] is a venerable con staged out in Stony Brook, Long Island -- about 90 minutes from Manhattan, but rather easy to get to by public transportation. We drove,…
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Participants: abzu, Valamir, urbwar, drozdal.

4/10/2004 Ben Lehman: GenCon Booth Monkey Questions
Hi. The possibility of me being at GenCon this year is increasing daily, so I thought I would ask some questions about the difference between Forge Booth Monkey attendance and…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, Lxndr, Tav_Behemoth, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Dav, Jürgen Mayer, Nev the Deranged.

4/10/2004 Tav_Behemoth: GenCon Booth: Garage Sale Bin?
Stop me if you've heard this one before... Would it be feasible for us to have an assorted for-sale at the booth that we could use like a communal garage…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, btrc, Christopher Weeks, jrs, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer.

4/13/2004 Lxndr: GenCon Business/Tax Questions
If I go to GenCon as "Alexander Cherry, Sole Proprietor of Twisted Confessions" instead of as "Private Citizen Alexander Cherry", what sorts of things are generally considered deductible? (Yeah yeah,…
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Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Bob Goat, jdagna, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege.

4/16/2004 anonymouse: for the con-goers: Penny Arcade's PAX
http://www.penny-arcade.com/pax/ They're going to have tabletop gaming in a "free play" area, it looks like (Tycho's a regular D&D'er), might be of interest for some of the indie folk to…
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Participants: anonymouse.

4/22/2004 Tigger: Gamefest Milwaukee and Gamefest Richmond
Dear Forge, My name is Daniel Brace; some of you may know me as a local convention organizer of Running GAGG and UNY-Con in the upstate New York area. I…
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Participants: Tigger, Dav, Mike Holmes, jdagna, Dave Panchyk, smokewolf.

4/25/2004 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2004] Sign-up instructions: the time has come
Hello, I'm opening up sign-ups for GenCon. Play by the following rules; I'll just deny anyone who makes life difficult by not being clear. This thread is not about logistics…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, lumpley, Michael S. Miller, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, btrc, AdAstraGames, xiombarg, Lxndr, smokewolf.

5/3/2004 Dregg: AGOG Indie Aftermath
Well I guess I will be the 1st to start the thread on this weekend's A Gazebo of Games in the indie designer perspective. 1st I will say it was…
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Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, abzu, inthisstyle, buggy, Thor Olavsrud, Andrew Morris, urbwar, elgorade, WGPTrey.

5/3/2004 Dregg: Indie RPGA?
Going on some Ideas from the AGOG Thread... http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11041 I was thinking about this over the weekend as I look at the RPGA section of the con. The RPGA... I…
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Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, Valamir.

5/4/2004 Dregg: Forge Presence at Dexcon 7?
I was Just wondering who from the Forge is attending Dexcon 7 in July? The Convention really wants to work with us and time is running thin. I myself am…
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Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, buggy, JamesSterrett, Helvetian, Mike Holmes, Tav_Behemoth.

5/6/2004 Zak Arntson: Dragonflight in Seattle (Aug 13-15)
Guess what? Getting close to 20 years of gaming, and I've never been to a convention before. I figure it's time to stop that by going to Dragonflight this year,…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, rafial, jdagna, Michael Hopcroft.

5/9/2004 Doyce: Forge Presence at San Diego ComicCon?
I was wondering if any Forgeites are attending SD ComicCon in August or if GenCon Indy is going to be the place to be.
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Participants: Doyce.

5/9/2004 John Kim: Forgeites at KublaCon '04 in SF Peninsula
So who is attending KublaCon? It will be May 28-31 in Burlingame on the SF Peninsula. I'll be there and running two events. Neither of them will be Indie RPGs,…
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Participants: John Kim, Michael Hopcroft.

5/10/2004 Matt Gwinn: "Does The Game System Really Matter?" GENCON Semin
[quote][b]Event ID:[/b] 3606 [b]Game ID:[/b] SEM00045 [b]Title:[/b] Does The Game System Really Matter? [b]Event Description:[/b] The Game System doesn't matter to have a successful gaming session. Join your hosts as…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Dev, daMoose_Neo, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski.

5/11/2004 Ron Edwards: DemonCon III (I hope)
Hello, For those of you who can't tell, it's been a bitch of a month for me. So I only hope this very late announcement is able to draw some…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, abzu.

5/12/2004 Lxndr: [GenCon] Fastlane Raffle?
I've been kicking this idea around in my mind, and have even allocated some budget to the concept and found a local Indianapolis retailer that could help meet my needs…
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Participants: Lxndr, Bob Goat, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/16/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Transportation issue for GenCon
I have a question for the experienced bus travelkrs on the list concerning GenCon? How long does it usually take Greyhound to get a person from portland, oregon to indianapolis?…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Lxndr, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2004 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2204] Booth design and logistics
Hello, Quick note first I am possibly unique in this, but today it was a huge surprise to me to check the GenCon dates and to realize that they've been…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, jrs, Bob Goat, abzu, daMoose_Neo, btrc, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, Dav, Andy Kitkowski, Paul Czege, AdAstraGames, LordSmerf.

5/21/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Forge in RopeCon?
I've followed the Forge preparations for GenCon, and came to consider an interesting thought: during 23.-25. of July we have in Finland the biggest northern roleplaying convention, Ropecon. I don't…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, Tav_Behemoth, M. J. Young, Merten, Matt Snyder, chadu, Paul Czege.

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