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8/13/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [GenCon 2005] Phone list
If you have a cell phone and you are part of the Forge GenCon booth in any capacity, you will want to be on the booth phone list. Send cell…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, Bob Goat, Blankshield, Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege.

8/13/2005 daMoose_Neo: [GenCon] 3 tickets available, assistance needed!
Let me say once more how much I hate retail. One of my helper-monkeys for GenCon got their request denied for time off, effectively getting a swift kick in the…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

8/12/2005 Veritas Games: Hauling Stuff Around
OK, so I'm totally ignorant of this stuff.  How do you folks get materials to cons?  Also do you leave your stock at the convention center overnight or do you…
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Participants: Veritas Games, Valamir, jdagna.

8/12/2005 epweissengruber: Phantasm Game Conference 2005 Indie Games
Phantasm Game Conference 2005 Indie Games Phantasm is held September 24h & 25th, 2005 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:00 Midnight Sunday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Market Hall; 336 George…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Gaerik, Adam Dray.

8/11/2005 Blankshield: [GenCon 2005] Death's Door demo kit
Hi folks, I'll be arriving Wednesday supper time-ish, and if things work out, would really like to run a couple booth monkeys/fellow publishers (at least) through the Death's Door demo…
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Participants: Blankshield.

8/8/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Easy question: what GenCon booth number are we at?
Seriously, the Forge booth - what booth number is it?
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Gaerik, timfire, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

8/6/2005 Denise: Gen Con Indy: what are you looking forward to playing/doing?
Unfortunately I know I'm going to be fairly busy with work stuff, but I'm really looking forward to meeting a bunch of you and checking out the wares!  I'm a…
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Participants: Denise, Nev the Deranged.

8/5/2005 erithromycin: Interaction Glasgow - Worldcon 2005
First off, it's this weekend, and started on Thursday, so this thread is late. Secondly, there's been a few RPG and gaming topics on the programme, and I've done my…
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Participants: erithromycin.

8/5/2005 apeiron: Nothern Virginia Apartment Con - August: Date and Purpose Survey
[b]Scheduling:[/b] This thread is intended to recruit attendees, and set a date for a gathering of gamesmiths (Forge Members) in the Northern Virginia area.  i think the first step is…
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Participants: apeiron, TonyLB, Adam Dray, Vaxalon, Shawn De Arment, D. Woolsey.

8/5/2005 gumdropgames: RealPolitik at GenCon
Hello all.  I invite you to check out the new card game RealPolitik.  After an encouraging showing at Origins I’m looking forward to GenCon.  RealPolitik has open play in 5…
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Participants: gumdropgames, abzu.

8/4/2005 M. J. Young: Ubercon VI
Anyone who is planning, hoping, or thinking to go to Ubercon VI this fall not as a vendor or special guest: please contact me privately. I'm a guest of the…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Adam Dray.

8/4/2005 Ben Lehman: [GenCon 2005] Retailer Discounts
What with all the discussion going on in the <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16225.0">price list</a> thread, and also Tony's comment in <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16245.0">Why I sell to retailers</a>, I really think that the issue…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, jrs, ShawnHel, daMoose_Neo.

8/3/2005 Ben Lehman: [GenCon 2005] Monkey Feeding
This is split from my <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16240.0">Auxiliary Gaming Zone</a> thread, which I managed to drive off topic by my own hand with a PS comment. In short -- the GenCon…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, TonyLB, LordSmerf, btrc, Blankshield, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, Bob Goat, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, abzu, Jasper the Mimbo.

8/3/2005 Ben Lehman: [GenCon 2005] Auxiliary Gaming Zone
Hi, everyone. So, last year, we had the combined problems of: 1) Too many people at the booth.  We love it when our good friends come and hang out with…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, TonyLB.

8/3/2005 Matt Wilson: be a billboard at GenCon
If anyone who's attending the show and working at the booth wants to be a walking billboard (a stylish walking billboard) for Primetime Adventures, let me know via PM. I'm…
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Participants: Matt Wilson.

8/2/2005 TonyLB: Forge Booth: Price List
I've taken the price-list from IGE2 at DEXCON, and butchered it around a bit to make a starting price list for GenCon. You can see the evolving list here. I'll…
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Participants: TonyLB, Bob Goat, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, Allan, Blankshield, Malcolm, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, jrs, Valamir, abzu, ShawnHel.

8/2/2005 btrc: Forge booth: Posters, etc.
A few questions regarding booth organization, etc. 1) How much space (dimensions, please) do we have for posters and other self-promotion? 2) Should we each start saving up our grocery…
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Participants: btrc, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Bob Goat, TonyLB, Matt Gwinn, Jasper the Mimbo, Allan, Paul Czege, abzu, daMoose_Neo, nikola, Andrew Morris.

8/1/2005 Lisa Padol: Shopping List
I'm heading off to Scotland tomorrow, flying in the Wednesday of GenCon, then heading out for GenCon on Thursday. Having polled my friends, here is the Forge portion of my…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards.

7/30/2005 timfire: [GenCon] How many demos should I plan for?
I'll probably print up charsheets to use for my Mountain Witch demos, so I will need to know how many demos I should plan for. What would be a safe…
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Participants: timfire, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

7/24/2005 btrc: GenCon booth opening
Just thought I'd post this here in case someone didn't see it on the WHEEZ-L mailing list: Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:27:39 -0500 From: "Ken Burnside" <design@adastragames.com>…
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Participants: btrc.

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8/15/2005 Valamir: Final Cash Register Issues
I'm nailing down the final list now and have some questions and confirmations as I reprogram the machine Not returning to the booth this year and about to be deleted…
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Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, hardcoremoose, Matt Wilson, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Blankshield, Paul Czege, Allan, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2005 Andy Kitkowski: [GenCon] People Selling Games, A Heads Up
I was preparing some adventures for demos, but realized that most of the stuff I'm going to run is going to be of the top of my head anyway. I…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, TonyLB, Adam Dray, daMoose_Neo, Miskatonic.

8/15/2005 abzu: [Gencon] Forge Boother Vendors -- You Must Do This
Hello All, The indomitable Clinton has set up a small web database for our credit card scheme. You must now populate that database. Go the following link. Enter in the…
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Participants: abzu, TonyLB, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, timfire, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, daMoose_Neo, Blankshield, Michael S. Miller.

8/22/2005 Paka: Gen Con: Between 8 and 12 at the Embassy Suites
I'm shocked no one has posted this yet. If you could put on a blindfold and throw a dart; you'd hit a table of people playing Inspectres, two forum regulars…
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Participants: Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, drozdal, abzu, Technocrat13, Paul Czege, urbanpagan, Thor Olavsrud, Bob Goat, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, Meguey, Bankuei, rickr, Allan, Andy Kitkowski, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis, Andrew Morris, Gregor Hutton, thelostgm, HMT, Pauls Girl, Malcolm, Frank T, lumpley, Matt Wilson.

8/23/2005 TonyLB: [Dreamation '06] Lessons of GenCon
[Keanu][color=Navy]Whoa![/color][/Keanu] Manning the Forge GenCon booth this year (for my first time) was one hell of an eye opener.  I thought we (for which read "I") were doing a solid…
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Participants: TonyLB, Rob Donoghue, Helvetian, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2005 Helvetian: Southern Exposure 2006
We're pulling together our younger convention, Southern Exposure 2006, which will be September 29th through October 2nd at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Cherry Hill, NJ.  This is…
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Participants: Helvetian, TonyLB, abzu, Kat Miller, Andrew Morris.

8/23/2005 abzu: GenCon Forge Booth -- The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
This thread is for Forge Booth members only. See the Customer Feedback thread if you weren't  a member but want to comment. Ok folks. Time to air our dirty laundry…
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Participants: abzu, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Jasper the Mimbo, Allan, Ben Lehman, drozdal, Blankshield, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Emily Care, Matt Gwinn, daMoose_Neo, Matt Wilson, Meguey, Bob Goat, Malcolm, Paul Czege, iain, jrs, Justin D. Jacobson, Michael S. Miller.

8/23/2005 abzu: Forge Booth Customer Feedback
Ok folks, this thread is for customers only. Members of the booth shouldn't post here. No responding to gripes! As customers to the booth, what didn't you like? Why? What…
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Participants: abzu, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, ivan23, rickr, Jared A. Sorensen, Smithy, Paka, Iskander, Jason L Blair, John Wick, ViperNYC, urbanpagan, Lisa Padol, Vaettyr, thelostgm, RobNJ, Technocrat13, Jon Edwards, M Jason Parent, cdr, jenskot, ejh, Kesher, Trevor, JamesSterrett, Bogie_71, Coffee_Lifeform, Andy Kitkowski.

8/23/2005 timfire: [GenCon '06] More space?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16477.0]Ron asked[/url] to that this discussion be given it's own thread, so here it is. To my admittedly-first-time-to-GenCon eyes, space seemed to be a major issue at the booth this…
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Participants: timfire, Nathan, abzu.

8/23/2005 John Wick: Gen Con 2005
Hey guys, I know The Forge did very well and you may have heard we did extremely well ourselves. I just wanted to drop a "Hey!" to everybody on the…
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Participants: John Wick, abzu, James Holloway, Gordon C. Landis, Jürgen Mayer.

8/24/2005 Eero Tuovinen: 15 minute demos for conventions
The only reason I write this now is that I'm really bad at remembering this stuff. So I'd probably forget later, when people actually have time to worry about this…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, TonyLB, Lisa Padol, timfire, Gaerik, Bob Goat, Andrew Morris.

8/24/2005 Jared A. Sorensen: Selling yourself without selling your soul (or looking like a dick)
So, I had some great experiences at the con and wanted to share my ideas/opinions with you lot. In particular, about avoiding the "hard sell" (which I first encountered, personally,…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, TonyLB, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Bankuei, Wolfen, urbanpagan, Gordon C. Landis, Meguey, ejh.

8/24/2005 Michael S. Miller: Indie RPG Explosion
The Forge presence at GenCon was more than just the Booth and the seminar track. It was also the Indie RPG Explosion, a collection of scheduled events for the games…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, abzu, TonyLB, Paka, Andrew Morris, O. Rodriguez, rickr, Pauls Girl, Clinton R. Nixon, Kat Miller, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Jasper the Mimbo.

8/24/2005 Technocrat13: Synchronizing scheduled events with sales.
On the plane ride back from GenCon I was thinking about my daytime gaming experience.  It was kinda lame.  My choices were indy games that were packed to the gills,…
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Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Smithy, daMoose_Neo, Blankshield, Paka, Ben Lehman, cdr, abzu, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, Lisa Padol.

8/24/2005 abzu: GenCon 2005 Pictures
Dro posted his pics up on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61684657@N00/ post links here to other picture sets. We need to create an archive. -L
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Participants: abzu, urbanpagan, Jürgen Mayer, Bob Goat, Matt Gwinn, Malcolm, Gregor Hutton, iain, Miskatonic, Matt-M-McElroy.

8/25/2005 seawolf69: MACE 2005 - High Point, NC
just a quick post to make sure you are all aware of our little gaming con in High Point, North Carolinas MACE 2005 November 11-13, 2005 High Point, NC http://www.justusproductions.com/…
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Participants: seawolf69, Technocrat13, abzu, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, btrc, JamesDJIII, Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, Andrew Norris, Adam Dray, urbanpagan, Jonathan Walton.

8/25/2005 Nev the Deranged: GenCon 2006 Suggestion
After trying to use my cell phone as a communications tool at the Con and mostly failing, I was thinking. I have a set of 2 way radios. Maybe one…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Andrew Morris, Paul Czege, Christopher Weeks, Kat Miller, M Jason Parent.

8/26/2005 Kat Miller: IGE at Southern Exposure
Becca was kind enough to let us know that Southern Exposure is coming up. It's being held in Cherry Hill NJ. Sept 29th to Oct2. more information can be found…
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Participants: Kat Miller, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., rickr, Andrew Morris.

8/27/2005 Jake Norwood: The Forge at Dragon Con
Anybody going to be there? I will be on Friday and Saturday. I'd love to meet with or game with some fellow forge-ites. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, drozdal, Certified.

8/28/2005 Valamir: Forge Booth Triumphant 2005
[b]GenCon Sales Results and Comparison[/b] Click [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12402.0]here[/url] for last year's detail. In 2003 we had 287 separate customer transactions In 2004 we had 360 separate customer transactions (+73 Customers +25.4%)…
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Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Nev the Deranged, Jürgen Mayer, abzu, iain, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Meguey.

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