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1/22/2004 Michael S. Miller: Indie gaming at A Gazebo of Games
A Gazebo of Games is the spring convention from the folks at Wild Gazebo Productions. It will be held April 30 to May 2, 2004 in Edison, NJ. Discussion of…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Dregg, eruditus, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Liz the RPG Chick, abzu, WGPTrey.

1/21/2004 Howmandu: Anyone going to Dreamation 1/22/04 to 1/25/04?
Dreamation is this weekend in North Jersey. Anyone planning on attending ? http://www.dexposure.com/d2004.html
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Participants: Howmandu, Dregg.

1/17/2004 Troy_Costisick: GenCon Forge Booth at Indy 2004
Heya guys, Mainly this is for Ron. Are you going to be running a booth similar to the one you did last year at Indy? If so, where do I…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GaryTP.

12/12/2003 abzu: Burning Wheel at Philcon (plus the Forge!)
Hi all, I'll be at Philcon this weekend demoing BW and supporting the Forge. If anyone lives in the area and wants to come out and hang around our table…
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Participants: abzu.

12/11/2003 abzu: BW/Nerd Booth at Ubercon
http://www.ubercon.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=242&password=&sort=1&cat=16&page=4 You can sort of get a sense of what we do. That's Dro and Aaron pitching the wheel. Of course you can't really see the Forge display... but trust…
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Participants: abzu.

12/4/2003 AdAstraGames: Con Support
What I see happening here is a replication of the Tragedy of the Commons. My perspective? I was running the booth directly across from the Forge at GenCon Indy this…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Emily Care, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, abzu, Troy_Costisick.

12/4/2003 DaGreatJL: Anybody going to Dundracon?
Hey, I know it's a little early, but I was wondering if any other Forgites were planning on going to Dundracon in February. I'd like to get a chance to…
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Participants: DaGreatJL, Michael Hopcroft, Dregg, James Holloway, PeterAdkison, Ulmo, tldenmark.

11/21/2003 M. J. Young: An Interesting Promotional Strategy
My son and I stumbled into something that was worth sharing with other independent game publishers. Here it is. We were at UNY-con, and the seminars were wonderful but poorly…
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Participants: M. J. Young, gobi, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, Cemendur, AdAstraGames.

11/20/2003 Dev: [VeriCon, MA] Send us support material? More guests?
[i]previously [url]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7735[/url], more con info therein.[/i] [url=http://www.vericon.org][b]Vericon[/b][/url] is still looking for RPG designers who'd like to be part of our (growing) panel on RPG design and the industry in general.…
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Participants: Dev, abzu, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege.

11/19/2003 Christopher Weeks: Travelling self-serve Forge display?
The discussion of late got me thinking about how to get small-press games to lots of cons. What if there was a self-serve display rack of some kind for a…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Dregg, GB Steve.

11/14/2003 LordSmerf: [Forge East] Like a Pheonix from the ashes.
If you've been keeping up with the Death of Forge East thread then you know we've been talking about more Forge presence at cons. I'd like to go ahead and…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Dregg, abzu.

11/11/2003 eruditus: Convention review: Lollagazebo
You are the first to see this. It is the start of my new convention experienceseries. I have posted this to RPGnet but it will be a few days until…
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Participants: eruditus, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, taepoong, zephyrrs.

11/11/2003 abzu: The End of Forge East part 1
Based on my experiences at the last two cons selling other folks' games, I have to close my open offer to sell books for other game publishers/designers. Basically, my suspicions…
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Participants: abzu, Paul Czege, eruditus, nerdnyc, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, LordSmerf.

11/11/2003 abzu: Convention Organizers: Demo Tables vs Dealers Tables
This is an open question to any convention organizers that lurk about on the Forge: Would it be possible to create a demo table in the RPG rooms of conventions…
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Participants: abzu, jdagna, Christopher Weeks, nerdnyc, Dregg, jrients, Dev, WMGG, Derek.

11/11/2003 abzu: After Lollagazebo Report
So I just returned from another convention. I slept all day today to recover and I am still exhausted. I wanted to give a brief recount of the event in…
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Participants: abzu.

11/5/2003 eruditus: Sales and Demos - Selling your game
no problem. consider it continued :) ...as it turns out, Luke and I actually had a conversation very recently about you. Yes! This is true. So it's good…
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Participants: eruditus, abzu, M. J. Young.

11/5/2003 eruditus: ubercon and beyond
And lets not forget Philcon the weekend of December 12th :) Ubercon was great. Luke and I have found that stuff sell by playing. All you have to do if…
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Participants: eruditus, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2003 eruditus: One or Two Day Conventions
What do you think is more successful? One day Game Days or Two Day conventions? Why? What are the conditions by which you attend conventions? How would a Game Day…
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Participants: eruditus, Mike Holmes.

10/30/2003 JamesDJIII: MACE - High Point, NC
Is any one from the Forge going to show up and run games? http://www.justusproductions.com/ Lookes like they could use an indie game injection.
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Participants: JamesDJIII, xiombarg.

10/28/2003 abzu: GAMA?
Ron (or another wise old soul), can you enlighten us about the perils, pleasures, benefits and detriments of the much touted GAMA trade show? The early registration deadline has passed,…
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Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, Valamir, AdAstraGames.

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1/23/2004 eruditus: PAGE Game Day March 20, 2004 - Sign up NOW!
GMs wanted for the PAGE Game Day. For more info: http://www.philagamers.org/index.php?module=FormExpress&func=display_form&form_id=3 I know that we BW folk will be around. A showing from the local Forge folk would be GREAT!!!!
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Participants: eruditus.

1/23/2004 Liz the RPG Chick: A Call for A Gazebo of Games
HI, Liz the RPG CHick here, I have been reading the posts about Wild Gazebo's cons and you all have alot of insite. I am now in charge of running…
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Participants: Liz the RPG Chick, Ron Edwards, abzu, WGPTrey.

1/23/2004 Liz the RPG Chick: A Call for A Gazebo of Games
HI, Liz the RPG CHick here, I have been reading the posts about Wild Gazebo's cons and you all have alot of insite. I am now in charge of running…
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Participants: Liz the RPG Chick.

1/24/2004 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2004] Primary booth organization
Hiya, Deadlines are very early this year and can save us all a lot of money. Right now, what I need are people who are willing to share primary booth…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, abzu, ADGBoss, AdAstraGames, Troy_Costisick.

1/25/2004 Dregg: Dreamation 2004
Well I'm back from what was a mixed blessing for me. I have to say the Double Exposure people are some of the most attentive people in the Universe. I…
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Participants: Dregg, Ron Edwards, AdAstraGames, Helvetian, Mike Holmes, JamesSterrett, E.T.Smith.

1/26/2004 Valamir: An example of some exemplary Con support for indie demos
I pulled this report off of a mailing list I'm on. I did not participate first hand in the event so can't really answer any questions. But I was quite…
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Participants: Valamir.

1/26/2004 Jonathan Walton: OberCon 2004 (Feb 27-29: Oberlin, Ohio)
Hey Forge-heads, The local gaming club here, along with great support from the college, is sponsoring our second annual OberCon, here in Oberlin, OH (about 20 minutes from Cleveland). Some…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

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.

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.

1/29/2004 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.

1/31/2004 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.

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.

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.

2/10/2004 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.

2/11/2004 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.

2/17/2004 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.

2/18/2004 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.

2/18/2004 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.

2/19/2004 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.

2/20/2004 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.

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