Finishing up

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Goodbye to the Forge, and good tidings for the future. Forums come and go, but ideas and friendships are resilient and live on. I haven't been active on the Forge for a long while, but it's still influential on who I am today and my plans for the future.

Thanks to Ron and Vincent for doing such an awesome job all these years.

-- Clinton

[Neil the Wimp]

This site, and the community around it, did so much to change my thinking about RPGs. Thank you everyone who contributed to this community.

[Gordon C. Landis]

Turns out, I'm in the "there are no words" camp right now.

Thanks, all, for so much.

[Alex F]

The Forge got me back to rpgs after a decade out, thinking there was nothing back there for me, or at least no way back. It enriched the way I look at systems, besides. Thanks to all for making it what it was.

Best
Alex

[Matt Machell]

Good stories, so they say, have a beginning, a muddle and an end. It seems good communities do to.

Thanks everybody.

-Matt

[Christopher Weeks]

Like everyone else: Thanks!

It's been a few years since I came here regularly, but I'd quit RPGs until I found you at GenCon something like ten years ago.  I know that keeping random folks in the hobby wasn't a goal, but you've made my life richer and I appreciate it.

[Mytholder]

Goodbye, Gaming Outpost.

Wait, wrong thread.

Bye, forge.

[hix]

Matt, you make a good point about beginnings, middles and ends. Until Ron posted his initial comments about how the Forge would someday eventually shut down, I thought of this place as an institution, rather than a project or something with a life-cycle. After that post, I became acutely aware of how much effort was involved in making The Forge a good place for discussions on the internet

Thank you to Ron, Ed, Vincent and Clinton for helping to create a place to inspire and assist people to make games I want to play.

And thank you to the Ronnies, which taught me that it can be easy to write a first draft of a game (and for inspiring me to write Left Coast, way back in 2005, which I'm hoping to release a new draft of in a couple of days).

Good friends, good conversations, good games, and good play. Hanging out here for the last 10 years has changed my life for the better.