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4/10/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Sponsorship page?
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried raising money for layout and printing costs for their book by taking sponsors ala online comic strips? My idea was to take…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, quozl, Ron Edwards.

4/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Doing business without travel
After the car wreck I was in, I am thinking about canceling the rest of my travel shcedule for the year. I have several reasons: medical bills, my general financial…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, ace pilot, Valamir, Ron Edwards, talysman.

4/6/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Playtesters Wanted
I'd like a few people who can give D20 character creation for the HeartQuest Second Edition a good workout and who can provide good, quick, solid feedback. Familiarity with the…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

4/6/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Weekly CAH Chat and setting up new chat channels
I have two questions. 1. Are we having a weekly CAH chat this week and where? 2. How does one go about contacting the chat server you used for the…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Bull, Goose.

4/6/2003 Michael Hopcroft: I badly need cheering up -- but then what else is new
I managed to celebrate the Forge's birthday by getting myself into an accident and ruining my career. I had been picked up by a group of students from Eugene to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, cruciel, rafael, Clinton R. Nixon, xiombarg, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Christoffer Lernö, greyorm.

4/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: 100% Subjective Character Creation
I was wondering if anyone can recall a game in which charatcers were created using neither dice nor points. How would someone make that work?
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, RpgAlexWyld, Alan, Mark Johnson, b_bankhead, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, The_Confessor, M. J. Young.

4/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: On to my second copy
Well, I had to do it. I couldn't find my copy anywhere, so i ordered a second copy of the Dead Tree Edition from Z-Man games, paying full price. The…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, The Spoken Name, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Bull, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Jason L Blair.

4/1/2003 Michael Hopcroft: CAH for Slayers?
I'll know more when I have access to the book again (it's a long story, involviong moving, an overzealous housecleaning and a massive collapse of an entire book collection stacked…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Spooky Fanboy, Eddy Fate, Wulf, Slant, Derek Devlin.

3/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Anyone have an Open Source Systems list?
Does anyone have a liost of all the game systems that have Open Gaming License-like licenses on them? In other words, all the pre-existing systems I can make commercial products…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Rich Stokes, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee, ethan_greer, talysman, iago, bladamson, axonrg.

3/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: CD-ROM Preorders on PDF files
I'm thinking about offering visitors to my website the chance to preorder HeartQuest 2nd Edition on CD-ROM and get a coupon for a discount on the Print-On-Demand edition of the…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paul Czege, Adam, Valamir.

3/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Special Sale pricing at RPGNow
In anticipation of the upcoming HeartQuest Second Edition, we're offering all of our current HeartQuest products at RPGNow at special prices. These e-books and POD books are priced to move…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

3/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Not the big announcement(s), but....
A pretty major announcement nontheless. Seraphim Guard has been facing two problems with HeartQuest: getting the D20 version as perfect as we can make it and the fact that we…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

3/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Speaking of RPGNow
How on Earth did they land so much of TSR's back catalog? Not that I won;t be buying massive quanbtities of it from them, but I still wonder how they…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, quozl, philreed, Stuart DJ Purdie.

3/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Dual-System games
I'm the sort of game designer who would rather borrow a good game system than design my own. Call me lazy, uncreative, or a grouchy slob -- I'd just rather…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ben Morgan, ADGBoss, Rich Stokes, ThreeGee, Jonathan Walton, Thomas Tamblyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin.

3/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for cheap, unusual promotion
I have a new release coming up and I'm looking for unique, inexpensive ways to promote it in such a way that people will remember it favorably and buy it…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, talysman, S.Lonergan, anonymouse.

3/25/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Discount layout software
I'm looking for discount layout software that is compatible with Acrobat, TIF files, and is relatively easy to learn. Preferably something I can try for a while before I purchase…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Adam, iago, wyrdlyng.

3/25/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Editor Wanted
I have inmmediate need for a volunteer editor (this project won;t generate muhc money) to do the grunt work of transforming a document cut-and-asted from Acrobat into a coherent Word…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, quozl, DeadGirl.

3/11/2003 Michael Hopcroft: When your manuscript is too short
I came up with a manuscript for the Ghost Tamer Miyaki sourcebook for HeartQuest, and have run into two problems. The first is that it's short -- about 25,000 words.…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, xiombarg, Jonathan Walton, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Adam, Le Joueur, Bankuei, Jeph.

3/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How long between editions is enough?
I got another e-mail from a potneital reviewer who was so ticked off by the various "errors" in HeartQuest that he refused to write a review at all. In fact,…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, DaR, Matt Gwinn.

3/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: When does a design cease to be indie?
When does a designer or a publisher lose his indie-cred round these parts? I'm getting kind of worried now that I have a D20 project in the works and will…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Maurice Forrester, Spooky Fanboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

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4/14/2003 Michael Hopcroft: SG and PIGames Join Forces on HeartQuest Diceless
[b]Seraphim Guard and Politically Incorrect Games Join Forces for Diceless Shoujo Game[/b] [b]PORTLAND, OR[/b]: Seraphim Guard, publishers of [i]HeartQuest: Romantic Roleplaying in the Worlds of Shoujo Manga[/i], and Politically Incorrect…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

4/16/2003 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon SoCal
I'm starting this topic for anyone who wants to plan a joint effort of any kind at GenCon SoCal this December. Basically this is for any publishers, publisher's lackeys, or…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, C. Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, quozl.

4/23/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Learning Quark
I was recently sent a copy of Quark XPress 5.0 for Windows. This is obviously a premiere piece of software -- however, it also comes with a high learning curve.…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt, Michael S. Miller, samdowning, Matt Gwinn, Gold Rush Games.

4/23/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Is the FLGS obsolete?
I was thinking of starting a game store when i graduated from business school, but now I'm starting to wonder whether the FLGS we grew up with has been rendered…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Scorpio, anonymouse, samdowning, JSDiamond, Andy Kitkowski, Tundra, Valamir, wyrdlyng, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Ryan Wynne, Emmett, b_bankhead.

4/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Partners, Incorporation and Working Capital
I'm thinking of aquiring some additional working capital by changing the structure of Seraphim Guard. This is more a matter of not wanting to run it as a sole properietorship…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Gold Rush Games, Dav, samdowning, Malcolm.

4/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Will there be a CyberCon 2003?
Are there any plans for online conventions for 2003? If anyone wants to run one, I'd like to fffer my assistance, and if nobody is running one I'd like to…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, rpghost, Gold Rush Games.

4/29/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Designigng a comedy game
I just acquired a licence for an RPG based pon an American-produced comedic manga series. I have eighteen months to release a game -- I want to do it in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Mike Holmes, Jay Turner, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, szilard, greyorm.

4/29/2003 Michael Hopcroft: A big announcement -- "As Told By...."
Now THIS is actually a BIG, Important announcmeent. Seraphim Guard has reached a licence agreement with NDP Comics to produce a role-playing game based on their manga series "As Told…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Blacksad, Dev, xiombarg.

4/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: SG Chat Room
We now have a 24/7 Seraphim Guard chatroom accessible by web at http://chat.cjb.net/seraphimguard/ That's where we'll hold our weeklies from now on and special events as well.
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

4/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: I got my first license!
I secured my first license this week! It may be from a small Ameri-manga publisher, but it's a LICENSE darnit and it's something I got! The cointract has been sitting…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jeffrey Miller.

5/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Technocon Guest list update
Here is an update of the currest guest list for Technocon 2003 (August 15th-17th 2003, online convention): Guests of Honor: S. John Ross (Risus: the Anything rpg, Uresia: Grave of…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Technocon's cartoon presence
Just a reminder to all of you that our own babyCindi, Cynthia Celeste Miller, has agreed to be a guest at Technocon, the online convention I am running in August,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: New contact e-mail starting this weekend
There's a new e-mail address to contact me at: seraph@pacifier.com It is not activated as of this writing (technical problems at the ISP), but will be by the end of…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/5/2003 Michael Hopcroft: In the hospital
One of the problems with a one-man operation is that when that one man gets sick things tend to slow to a screeching halt. I am going to be difficult…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat.

5/13/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HQ Diceless -- PDF Only or POD?
I was sure I would be able to do all my books both POD and PDF. However, the next books I'm doing, HeartQuest Diceless, poses a problem in that it's…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, quozl, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, pigames.

5/14/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Advising Writers
One of the roles of a publisher who works with writers, I'm finding, is advising them. I wonder how those of you who manage writers handle this delicate task. In…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Dav, samdowning, wyrdlyng, Matt, clehrich.

5/14/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Sponsorship deadline approaching for HQ Diceless
The HeartQuest Diceless book is almost ready, so if you're still unsure about sponsorhip and want to be listed as a sponsor in the book do not hesitate -- act…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/15/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Technocon website up -- sort of
A Placeholder Website for Technocon 2003 is now up. I encoruage you to visit and see who's signed up so far. We also ahve an e-mail form for suggestions, a…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/17/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HeartQuest Diceless ML
I've started a new Yahoogroup for users and developers of HeartQuest Diceless. To join, send an e-mail to: hqdiceless-subscribe@yahoogroups.com And follow the directions.
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/17/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Reviewers wanted
I have a new product coming out int he next couple of weeks (if all goes well) and I' going to need to have reviews published. I'm looking for reviewers…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Brian Leybourne, Jack Spencer Jr.

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