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6/12/2003 Michael Hopcroft: RPGmall print run Size
Many of you must have gotten a letter from RPGNow saying they need print books from their vendors for their Origins and GenCon booths. It just so happens that although…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna, rpghost, jgbrowning.

6/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Switching Operating Systems and How it Affects a Business
After a disastrous system crash, I no longer trust Microsoft products. As a result, I am now running Red Hat Linux 9. I can;t access any of my old Windows…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Nathan, Trevis Martin, talysman, Catalyst, Clay, ejh.

6/3/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How to advise someone from a Different Industry
I got an e-mail over the weekend from a very famous computer game maker. I will not give his name here out of respect for his privacy. Anyway, he was…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clay, Ron Edwards.

6/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Public Domain
Can anyone provide a link or reference that can help me find out whether a given work is in the public domain?
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, talysman, Michael S. Miller, Jason E. Roberts.

5/31/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Handling Outside Submissions
Today, like a bolt out of the blue, someone came to me with a game idea. not a HeartQuest supplement, not a Fuzz, supplement, but a complete game idea. I…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jack Spencer Jr, Dave Panchyk, Bailey, ADGBoss, pigames, Clay.

5/31/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Delay to Second Edition: Supplement Request for Diceless
I dislkie delaying projects. It makes me feel bad and it makes me look bad. Nontheless, if it turns into a better product at the end 9and hopefully anmore salable…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/31/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Open Call for Mecha Artists
Seraphim Guard's newest game, the mecha game MechSpace, needs artists familair with the mecha anime genre fro cover and interior art. Please contact me privately for more infmration.
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HQ Diceless Supplements
I thought I'd try to get people's opinions on this. Do you think people would buy supplements specifically designed for HeartQuest Diceless? Things like campaign books, adventure collections, genre guides…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

5/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Heartquest Diceless Released
If you've ever wanted to play your favorite anime or manga portraying girls with super or magical powers in it, now you can. HeartQuest Diceless lets you do just that!…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Holdiay Weekends and RPGNow
How do holiday weekends usually affect the posting of new products to RPGNow? I've been told the prouct I uploaded yesterday morning would be posted this afternoon, but this was…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/25/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HeartQuest Diceless Mailing List
Now you can prepare for the release of HeartQuest Diceless by joining The Official HeartQuest Diceless Mailing List from yahoogroups. While you;'re there check out the HeartQuest Mailing List,…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/24/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Dealing with the nerves
I have a book cominbg out this weekend (see my board for details) and I've got a bad case of the pre-release stage fright blues. With so much at stake…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Mike Holmes, clehrich, C. Edwards, Valamir, Dav, Adam, Paganini.

5/23/2003 Michael Hopcroft: I missed my anniversary
This may sound strange, but I completely passed over the fact thateight days ago was my first anniversary on the Forge. I wouldnt say it's been a perfect or stable…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/22/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Press releases
How detailed does a press release have to get before it ceases to be a press release and becomes an advertisement? That;s something that;s been puzzling me with some of…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, JSDiamond, Matt Wilson, Gold Rush Games.

5/21/2003 Michael Hopcroft: hQ Slayers Dicelss Demo Game
Are you an anime fan? Have you ever longed to cast the Dragon Slave at your foes and obliterate entire villages? This Saturday at 3:00pm, Seraphim Guard is hositng a…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/20/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Classified ad: Need netgaming epxert to Write Book
[url=http://www.seraphimguard.comSeraphim Guard[/url] is looking for a freelance writer with a solid working knowledge of the various ways to play roleplaying games, especially diceless ones, on the Internet, to either write…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

5/20/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Why the Sponsorship Program is failing
As I get ready to tske down the sponsorhip link for HeartQuest Diceless (due to the book's imprending release, after about Wednesday I would not be able to put sponsor's…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, ethan_greer, Clay, Valamir, wyrdlyng, ace pilot.

5/19/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Paying the layout guy -- by the project or on retainer?
Right now most of the money I make at Seraphim guard is going sttraight into the pkcet of the layout guy. There's been a dry spell between products, and now…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt Snyder, Dav, Adam.

5/19/2003 Michael Hopcroft: New mecha game -- MechSpace
Seraphim guard has signed tghe contracts with writer Anthony Ford to produce a new mecha RPG system called MechSpace. This will be a complete, original, D6-only mecha RPG system that…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, secondzflat, Andrew Martin, Bankuei, pigames.

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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6/15/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Religion in Game Design
This may seem like an impertinent question, but do any of you who design games find that your personal beliefs affect what you design? I'm a farily recent convert to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jack Spencer Jr, lumpley, jdagna, damion, Christopher Kubasik, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, simon_hibbs.

6/25/2003 Michael Hopcroft: The competition has entered my turf!
I'm sure Adam Jury, who is on the Forge, can supply us with the full press release, but it appears Guardians of order is going to be selling their out-of-print…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, C. Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, jdagna, Michael S. Miller, ADGBoss, xiombarg, rpghost, Hardpoint.

6/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for an Origins report
I'm looking for people on the Forge who went to origins this weekend to report in when they get back and tell us: 1. How was the convention? 2. Did…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paul Czege, rpghost, jdagna, Pramas.

6/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HeartQuest in Indie-Netgaming
Paganini is running HeartQuest on the indie-Netgaming chat forum and has run at least one session in the Sendai Academy shoujo campaign. I'm sure he could use more players, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paganini, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, James V. West.

7/4/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Publisher and reatiler -- competing roles?
My immersion into the RPG businbess is getting deeper. I have finally accepted an offer to run an online store selling RPG books, and Hopcroft Hobby games should be open…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jgbrowning, jdagna, Christian Walker, Space Cowboy, kwill.

7/5/2003 Michael Hopcroft: New Reviews
Dreamscribe e-zine and The Downloader's Julky issue have reivews of HeartQuest and HeartQuest Diceless, respectively. Hopefully someone who sees this will be able to track down the URLs. I especially…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

7/5/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Writer wanted for revamp of indie furry game
Are you a freelance writer familair with: 1. the Action! System 2. the D20 modern SRD 3. The anthropomorphic ("furry" genre 4. Polcie action dramas If so, Seraphim Guard needs…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jared A. Sorensen, Snakefeather, masqueradeball.

7/11/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How to deal with a PDF pirate
This happened to another company, not to me, but I was wondering how best I shjould deal with it should it happen to me. As you know, Guardians of Order…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Reimer Behrends, gobi, Adam, greyorm, Bruce Baugh, rpghost.

7/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: I've just got to know -- how was GenCon
GenCon is over at the time of this writing, and I wasn;t there. Probably just as well as I would have been miserable with all that standing on an injured…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, hardcoremoose, abzu, Jeffrey Miller, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, Space Cowboy, Cynthia Celeste Miller, GMSkarka, Paul Czege, Valamir, Lxndr, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, ethan_greer, Gold Rush Games.

7/29/2003 Michael Hopcroft: How special interest can you get?
One of the things publishers do is go to local and regional conventions to promote their ideas. Well it just so happens that I found a con so specialized that…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, jdagna, lumpley, Jake Norwood, badsign_98.

8/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon SoCal -- will there be a Forge presence?
Are there enoughn Forge publishers on the West Coast to make a Forge booth or presence at GenCon SoCal this year worthwhile, or should we wait until next year to…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, samdowning, jdagna.

8/2/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Dragonflight in Seattle
Are any member of the Forge plannint ot at Dragonflight August 15-17 in Seattle?
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, samdowning, Jeffrey Miller, jdagna.

8/10/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Writers who can Work on Spec
I've got a problem. I have a lot of ideas for books for my company to publish -- more that I have access to writers to write them and more…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Adam, Andrew Martin, Emily_Dresner.

8/10/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Is it possible to have too many ideas?
If you're an e-publisher who doesn;t have to spend $1,000 to publish each book, is it possible to have too many game and/or supplement ideas, especially when you don't know…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna, Ron Edwards, Thomas Tamblyn, pete_darby.

8/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Coming up with cash in a hurry
I';ve been given the opportunity to revive an old favorite project from when i first did game writing. but first I have to buy the rights back from the original…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, cognizantchance, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer.

8/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Guerilla marketing for RPG Publishers
I remember once picking up a book about "Gureilla Marketing", which does not involve bursting into a game shop with machine guns and telling everyone to buy your product or…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clay, Perrina, Mike Holmes, realms_creator, Dave Panchyk, Bankuei, cognizantchance.

8/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Entering the superhero market
Seraphim Guard is going to be entering the superhero RPG market in 2004 through the M&M Superlink program. We have two books contracted out and a third under negotiations. The…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Dev.

8/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HQ2E in playtest
The HeartQuest 2nd Editionmanuscripot is in plkaytesting as we speak, and boy are we learning a lot about it from the process! Expoect it to be an even better book…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

8/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Foreign languages
What is the best way to get your game into a foreign-langauage market if you;'re an electronic publisher -- sell the rights to a publisher in the host country, or…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Erick Wujcik, Perrina, Philippe Tromeur, heironymous.

8/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Seeking fans with Foreign lanuagage Skills
Seraphim guard is seeking fans with good foreign lanuagage skills, hopefully combined with layout skills in those langauages, to help get their product lines into other langauages. Write me for…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, flobby77.

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