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Breaking into the industry This is exactly one of the goals of bySwarm if you are looking for an opportunity to get involved. Anyone will be able to get involved in creating an RPG product, and we'll be taking the best of the best to make final products. Any revenue we manage to make will go at...

Yeah, sorry. I'm trying to find a reference to it, but I can't. I've heard previously that RPGNow intends to enter the PoD market, but I hadn't heard anything official yet.

Link?

Three types of successful FLGS I think there are three types of FLGS that are successful: 1) Focus on collectible card games These stores sell the equivalent of gamer-cigarettes in that their customers keep coming back to buy more of their product. They also often host events and competitive...

Semi-open source At bySwarm, we are going to have a model that's pretty close to open source. You maintain ownership on anything you submit, but you give the rest of the community a license to use it for free for use in their games and you give the company a license to use your contributions in...

I agree with you that I think WotC shot themselves in the foot by moving to a new license that makes about anything but adventure and setting book publishing out of the question for other companies. I do not think they necessarily shot themselves in the foot financially, but I think they shot...

This is something I've been thinking about and working on for the bySwarm site. I don't know that I've found the answers, and so I'll be looking for consistent feedback when we are at that stage. We're still just gathering setting concepts in order to choose one to use to guide the effort.

Another Evernote fan I'm another Evernote fan. Not only can I take notes from multiple computers and have them all sync seemlessly, I can take voice notes from my iPhone when a great idea hits me on the road.

More than just e-books and wikis I think that e-books and wikis are just a middle step and that the next big innovation will be more than that. The thing I have found frustrating in running and playing a game is that I have to reference so many books and getting to information I need...