My friend has started to make a really sweet RPG on the trial version of the PC RPG maker.  The story involves all of us friends traveling around Portage County where we live in search of his missing parents...Does anyone know how to make this into an actual PC game?? Once he gets the full version, is there like an option to burn it onto a cd so like I could play it at my house?? I am asking for him since he is out of town this weekend, help me out with an answer..

I thought that anything made with RPG Maker required the end user to have the program as well.

You might want to look into the "Zelda Classic" programming engine. It's completely free, I think, and you can actually make a wide variety of games with it by changing all of the graphics. Might make distribution easier.

^ Yes, you can be the next Wisdom Tree/Color Dreams, using a zelda-like engine to release half a dozen differently-titled games that play exactly the same!

^ why mess with a formula that works?

I used to mess with RPG maker alot, and im pretty sure you can make .EXEs . But why pay for a licensed version? muahahahha.