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1/28/2005 Cold Black Wind: New to the Site
Greetings fellow gamers and designers, I am as the title of the thread states quite new to this site, but very interested in this place for source material in creating…
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Participants: Cold Black Wind, Selene Tan, clehrich, xenopulse, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

1/24/2005 jrs: Number of guests
Has anyone else noticed that the number of guests at the site has jumped significantly over the past month? Before, say Christmas, the number of guests could be as high…
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Participants: jrs, clehrich.

1/22/2005 Vaxalon: Magicstar down?
Is anyone else having trouble connecting to magicstar?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Paganini.

1/15/2005 Mark D. Eddy: In My Opinion is Bad?
I just read Ron's post in RPG Theory here, and I'd like some clarification. Why is "In My Opinion" posting considered bad? My understanding is that opinion is argument to…
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Participants: Mark D. Eddy, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, TonyLB, Marco, Bankuei, joshua neff, M. J. Young.

1/15/2005 Andrew Morris: Appropriate topic for the Forge?
Hey, I was uncertain if it would be appropriate to start a "Who's going to Dreamation 2005?" thread. I'd like to know who's going to be there, so I can…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Andy Kitkowski.

1/5/2005 Silmenume: Did I hang myself?
I could have sworn that there was a "2nd" definition to the term "deprotagonize." The first is in the gloss. The second (I can't remember where I saw it) was…
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Participants: Silmenume, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

12/31/2004 abzu: NYE
Happy New Year all. My all your play be enjoyable and game design be clever. -L
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Participants: abzu.

12/20/2004 Doyce: Forge Wiki, Part 2 - Questions of Use
In the recent "Forge Wiki" thread, I mentioned that it was fine for folks to continue to use and grow RandomWiki along lines that interested them -- it's not like…
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Participants: Doyce.

12/19/2004 Kedamono: Submitted Web sites not showing up
I submitted two Web sites weeks ago, http://www.heatherwinds.com and http://www.tritacgames.com, and neither have showed up in the Resource Library. When I try to resubmit them, I get a message that…
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Participants: Kedamono, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/16/2004 sirogit: Forge Wiki?
Has this ever been suggested before? I know I'd find it tremendously useful if it was half as good as Doyce's Sorcerer Wiki. What would have to be done to…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Doyce, John Kim, Mike Holmes.

12/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Forge Assisted Games
Heya, Is there a compiled list of games that made it into print that were aided in their development here on The Forge? I'm just interested to see the titles…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Blankshield, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/13/2004 rafial: Automatic Ron (a software suggestion)
So given that newbies post to old threads on a fairly regular basis, leading to Ron posting a "we don't do that here" message, it occured to me that the…
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Participants: rafial, jc_madden, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/11/2004 KeithBVaughn: Science Fiction Heartbreakers...
What ever happened to that article? I remember several months ago it was discussed about as another essay soon to be in the Articles section. I've been looking forward to…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, Ron Edwards, Dev, Matt Wilson, John Kim, b_bankhead, clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve.

12/9/2004 Maciek Zagorski: The Forge and The Forge Studios
About a year ago we started a new Polish project called The Forge Studios. We wanted to create a little outstanding and non-conventional project - we wanted to publish supplements…
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Participants: Maciek Zagorski, Ron Edwards.

12/4/2004 clehrich: Self-defense and Forge-defense -- should I?
Hi gang, So Ben Lehman pointed out to me that in the course of a discussion about RPGs and how they should be written, someone posted a small and out-of-context…
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Participants: clehrich, Bankuei, greyorm, Matt Wilson, Trevis Martin, Marco, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2004 sophist: just trying to improve the links
After aquiring SORCERER I followed the cue to to delve more into independent roleplaying. And i must say it payed off splendidly. The resource page on the forge here is…
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Participants: sophist, Ron Edwards, greyorm, M. J. Young, Marco, GreatWolf.

11/30/2004 greyorm: The Forge in Games Quarterly
Out of the blue the other day, I recieved a magazine in the mail called "Games Quarterly." The magazine is about...well, games: board, card, RPG, etc. And as I sat…
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Participants: greyorm, Valamir, Andrew Morris.

11/25/2004 Matt Gwinn: Member List
Is there a reason I can't get to the member list?
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/23/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Break-in and upgrade
A big security update for phpBB (the forum we use) came out recently. With it came a slew of little hackers, hell-bent on exploiting the holes in older versions. As…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

11/23/2004 Grand_Commander13: The front page
[quote] hello tal from ilan KFC MOB IS CHICKEN KILLER DELUXE BABYYY [/quote] Am I supposed to understand this, or not? And in other news: "oh my g0D!!!1 i kn0…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon.

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1/30/2005 Silmenume: Defintion usage and drift - Rant
I’m not sure I understand this deference to the original coiners of useful terms. Right now the debate of an “idea” has been ground to a halt because of this…
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Participants: Silmenume, clehrich, contracycle, CPXB.

2/3/2005 Jonathan Walton: Diaspora: How I Learned 2 Stop Worrying & Love the Forge
So I posted the following text over on Vincent's Blog, but I thought that it was important enough to bring over here and maybe talk about a bit with both…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Harlequin, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, M. J. Young, clehrich, A.Neill, contracycle, JamesDJIII, bcook1971, Trevis Martin, Brendan, Bankuei, Green, Nathan, Andy Kitkowski.

2/3/2005 J. Tuomas Harviainen: Limits of acceptable "Theory"
[quote=Ron Edwards]This thread is closed. No more posting here, please. Please take all discussion of Vincent's talk to a new thread. Please take all discussion of goals & procedures at…
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Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, pete_darby, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, xenopulse, Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Montola, Paul Czege, humis, Bankuei, Marco, clehrich, Mark D. Eddy.

2/3/2005 ffilz: Let me see if I can articulate my problem with the Forge
I've really been struggling here. I understand there is a lot of cool theory, but it isn't presented in a digestible format. Sure, there are some essays, but from what…
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Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Paganini, Christopher Weeks, John Kim, crookedface, clehrich, greedo1379.

2/7/2005 Bankuei: PM issues
Hi Clinton, 2 or 3 times now I've sent a PM and had most of it evaporate into the ether. Both the recipient copy and the Sent Box version are…
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Participants: Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/14/2005 Valamir: The Problem With This Forum: Too much damn theory
This is a semi rant about a trend in this forum that I find rather disturbing. The theory in here has gotten REALLY thick. There was a time...or maybe its…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Harlequin, LordSmerf, clehrich, quozl, John Burdick, Jonathan Walton, CPXB, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, John Kim, Paul Czege.

2/15/2005 Lee Short: Forum policy for Actual Play?
Valamir's thread has pushed this to the forefront. I've seen some rough guidelines such as "your post must have a point" and "it shouldn't be just a travelogue of what…
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Participants: Lee Short, Ron Edwards, Green.

2/18/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: The 'favorites' section, tags, and the future
Hey! Have you ever used the "Favorites" feature on the Forge? There's a link up top that says "Favorites" and a link at the bottom of every topic that says…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, Bob Goat, clehrich, joshua neff, Christopher Weeks, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, ffilz, bcook1971.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: Problem with Link in Signature
This is just a small website problem I seem to be having. My signature contains a link to the website of a game I am working on, it isn't working…
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Participants: Gaerik, timfire, TonyLB.

2/21/2005 clehrich: Vanishing Into the Mists
Dear Friends at the Forge, Owing to a sudden and unexpected professional commitment, which puts me under the gun to complete my current book in just a few months, I’m…
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Participants: clehrich.

2/24/2005 Noon: Question about actual play
Recently I aquired the playstation 2 game Mercenaries. It's play is very much how we used to play certain RPGs years ago (Rifts, in particular) and is a quality I…
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Participants: Noon, Mike Holmes.

2/27/2005 matthijs: RSS feed?
Does the Forge have an RSS feed?
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Participants: matthijs, Clinton R. Nixon, Dev, Paul Czege.

3/4/2005 Mandacaru: PbEM forum?
With reference to a thread on PbEM... http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14546 ... T'oma's initial uncertainty as to where to post this, Keith's suggestion that PbEM is an area worthy of specific discussion, and…
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Participants: Mandacaru, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, T'oma, jdagna, timfire, Trevis Martin.

3/10/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Hack attack - officially back up
We're officially back up from our hack attack. The explanation: When searching on the version of phpBB that was running, the highlight= field in the URL allowed you to run…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic.

3/10/2005 Paul Czege: password security
Hey Clinton, The hack could have included a download of user information, right? Are user passwords insecure as a result (i.e. we should change them)? Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, Victor Gijsbers, Domhnall.

3/11/2005 Halzebier: [Hack Attack] Forum reconstruction
Hi there! I've posted a draft of a post which got lost in the attack to the mangled stump of the original thread. On reflection, that was probably a bad…
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Participants: Halzebier, Ron Edwards.

3/14/2005 Simon Kamber: Help for new arrivals.
I started following the forge relatively recently. I've read quite a few of the essays, and I'd like to think that I've done just about everything that a new guy…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller, M. J. Young, Domhnall.

3/14/2005 Space Cowboy: Hacking websites/forums and how to protect yourself
Hey all, As The Forge was recently hacked. Personally, I barely know enough about computers to get by, and since Wild Sphere’s forums are under construction, I am understandably concerned…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Dev, Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2005 timfire: Search function not working right...
Hi, To whom it may concern (namely Clinton), when I do I a search, I get results, but when I try clicking on the link, it tells me the page…
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Participants: timfire.

3/18/2005 Asrogoth: Having to Log In Each Time
Since the infamous hack, I changed my password and now have to log in each time I visit the site; even though I have clicked the "remember me" box when…
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Participants: Asrogoth, Joshua Tompkins.

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