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12/19/2001 Mike Holmes: I saw it...
This might not be the appropriate site to comment on a movie. But having seen it I must say that I am truely inspired and feel the need to just…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/13/2001 Petter Sandelin: The trendy people
I guess this is the fourm for a topic with no forum..(couldn't there be one wich discusses X + other general issues?) It was a couple of years ago since…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, contracycle, joshua neff, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins.

12/12/2001 Balbinus: Typo of the month
Hi there, Just noticed a great typo (or is it?) in the game library descriptions section. Apparently, Space Ninja Cybercrisis is about: Manga action comedy demons aliens amazing groinal powers…
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Participants: Balbinus, razgon.

12/10/2001 jburneko: New Forum In Order
Hello All, This is just a thought that occured to me. We have the GNS forum for discussing the GNS model directly. Then we have the RPG Theory forum which…
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Participants: jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Disapearing thread?
Hey - I *swear* I had a post in this forum about the "broken" History of the Forge link on the main page . . . and it's gone. The…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/6/2001 Bret: Reviews
Question: Can we submit reviews? Peace, Bret
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Participants: Bret, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, razgon.

12/5/2001 Bret: The Essential RPG List
Hey folks. I'm trying to compile a list somewhat along the lines of an "Essential RPG Library," containing all the RPGs that someone either interested in the RPG industry or…
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Participants: Bret, mahoux, Marco, Time, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Balbinus, John Wick.

12/5/2001 Bret: Crunchy Bits
Are we going to see any more crunchy bits articles anytime soon? They're nifty. :smile: Peace, Bret
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Participants: Bret.

12/4/2001 Bret: Article MIA
Clinton R. Nixon's "Publishing Your Web-Based Indie Game for Under $100" article gives me a 404 when I click on it, which is a bummer because it sounds like a…
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Participants: Bret, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/15/2001 Laurel: Best of Threads?
Ron was giving Nathan some good thread examples in a post and it got me thinking... one of the most useful things for newcomers and even oldcomers with limited memory…
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Participants: Laurel, Bankuei, kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

11/15/2001 Nathan: Quarter Page Ad
I think indie-rpgs needs either a nice fat publish quality banner or a quarter page ad that we can include in our PDFs. Obviously, the value of this site may…
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Participants: Nathan, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Forums and thread organization.
It seems to me that there's a problem with the forums and the threads. The way the software works, we're supposed to keep the same conversation in the same thread.…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

11/6/2001 Ron Edwards: New review is up
Hi everyone, The Little Fears review, by me, is posted! Discuss it in the Review Discussion forum. Buy the game. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, unodiablo.

11/5/2001 lumpley: Game Library Probs
Heya. The Game Library says that my email isn't in its database. I can't update my stuff to point to my new website and say that now the link to…
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Participants: lumpley, kwill, Bret.

11/3/2001 Paul Czege: How did you discover The Forge?
Hey everyone, There've been a lot of new people here the past couple of months, and I'm getting really curious how people are discovering the site. How did you discover…
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Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, JGCook, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Bret, Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, unodiablo, mahoux, Mike Holmes, Time, Joe Murphy (Broin), razgon, Bankuei, GMSkarka, Jack Spencer Jr, xiombarg, Ranko, Julian Kelsey, James V. West, J B Bell, Philippe Tromeur, Blake Hutchins, Skippy, Daredevil, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Chris Passeno, Paganini.

10/26/2001 Djt'Heutii: Are there Forum Problems or is it me?
Hi. I recently registered, I hope this is where this Goes :smile: I'm having a problem accessing the forums. I'll read one or two discussions and then I can't access…
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Participants: Djt'Heutii, Ian O'Rourke, 333Chronzon, Laurel, kwill.

10/26/2001 Petter Sandelin: index in essay?
Dropped by the other day to read the last two chapters of the new essay, that I hadn't had time to read and found that it's kind of irritating to…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2001 Paul Czege: breaking private messages across multiple pages
Hey Clinton, My page of private messages is becoming a slow load. I do clean them out, but there are some I don't want to get rid of. Is there…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/19/2001 Matt Gwinn: Maybe I'm just stupid
But how do you quote someone in the forum?
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/15/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: The Forge R2
Well - I've been playing around with some new code, and am thinking about revising The Forge again. The author-driven game library hasn't really worked out because of bad code…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt, hardcoremoose, greyorm, Laurel, Paul Czege, Valamir, Zak Arntson, kwill, Galfraxas, Don Lag.

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12/27/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: 100 new messages by Jan. 1
Ok, people - I know we can do this. If we post 100 (well, 99 now) messages by the new year, we'll have 10,000. I guess there's nothing particularly special…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

12/28/2001 Jason L Blair: 300 members by 2002?
Yeah, yeah, 10,000 messages was eeeeeeeeeeeasy. Think we can recruit 19 new members by midnight-oh-one 01.01.02 and make that number a sweet 3-hunny? I'm not just talking different accounts (though…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, joshua neff, unodiablo, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

1/4/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Request for comments (and return of the Forge R2)
I noticed yesterday that a new version of the forum software we use here was out. So, I downloaded the forum database, loaded it up at home, and tried out…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Ian O'Rourke, Paul Czege, Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/4/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New forum version
Well, the upgrade's done. I'll be changing the colors and what not over the weekend. Post questions and comments here.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Joe Murphy (Broin), Mytholder, Paganini, Zak Arntson, Ranko, Marco, Paul Czege, greyorm, joshua neff, Logan, Tim C Koppang, Ben Morgan, Chris Passeno, Armin D. Sykes.

1/7/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New forum features: instructions and more
First, the FAQ for the site covers posting and all that jazz. It's quite good, and well worth reading. You'll note it mentions avatars and ranks and smilies. I've cut…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

1/9/2002 Skippy: Where have all the articles gone?
(Sung to the tune of "Where have all the flowers gone?") Admittedly, I'm not a bright man, but I can't find the articles that used to be on El Forge-o.…
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Participants: Skippy, hardcoremoose.

1/9/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Updates upon updates
I went kind of crazy updating the look of the rest of the Forge. (If you haven't been there in a while - there's some stuff outside the forums.)…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff.

1/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Idea for member discussion (donations and hosting fees)
Everyone at the Forge, Ron and I have talked for a while now about how to support the Forge as it grows. Over the last year, we've increased our membership…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Matt Snyder, hardcoremoose, J B Bell, Blake Hutchins, Ben Morgan, Le Joueur, Zak Arntson, Bailey, Armin D. Sykes, Chris Passeno, Paul Czege, Trav, Matt Gwinn, greyorm.

1/11/2002 Paganini: [OT] GO?
This is not on topic at all, but it's paralell to the "How did you find the Forge" thread, so what the heck. A lot of people seem to have…
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Participants: Paganini, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Laurel.

1/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Elitism and number of posts
[quote="Eloran"] I'm fine with the idea of donations. The questions about anonymity and potentials for elitism have got me thinking. How is acknowledging donators from non donators and different from…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Laurel, Trav, Mithras, Valamir, Balbinus, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, erithromycin, Tim Denee.

1/15/2002 Paganini: To the System Rulers
You know, I really like the new layout of the forums, but it didn't address the one beef I've had with the UI ever since I've been here. (All of…
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Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Logan, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Those automated mails?
Do you think it would be possible to change the automated mails I get when I'm 'watching topics'? If they could say: You are receiving this email because you…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/17/2002 joe_llama: Odd request
Hello again, This is kind of an odd request from a person whose in an awkward situation. I didn't know where else to post this but I figured that here…
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Participants: joe_llama, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, greyorm, Zak Arntson.

1/17/2002 Matt Gwinn: Cafepress Stuff
Any chance we could get one of those T-shirts in black? How about a hat too? :-) ,Matt
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder, joshua neff, Adam, Paul Czege.

1/17/2002 Bankuei: Appropriateness
I come to the Forge for the quality of the forums. I'll admit that often I post things that aren't the most clear, or well written pieces, but I try…
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Participants: Bankuei.

1/21/2002 gizem: emergency, please help us
Hello the Forge, A first rpg-related-suicide-crisis is taking place in Turkey. One of the largest newspapers took an interest in the subject and published very negative articles, aimed at creating…
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Participants: gizem, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/22/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Small change in the Resource Library
If any of you have submitted links to the resource library, you've noticed that descriptions have a limit of 255 characters. I have removed that limit, as I have found…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege.

1/24/2002 Matt Snyder: Forge logo for shirts, etc.
Ok, folks check out the Forge logo I created for Cafe Press items, T-shirts etc. It's not meant to trump anything Ron & Clinton have going, just to contribute what…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Adam.

1/26/2002 Valamir: Great look to the Forge
I had taken a break from on line activities for a good month or two (including the Forge). When I came back the Forge was brand spankin new. New look,…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/27/2002 Valamir: Email addresses
Ack, slight problem...or maybe a how to question. I'm having trouble sending email with an attachment to a forum member. This is because niether the member list nor the profile…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell.

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