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12/3/2006 114211: Re: Question- publisher #s vs. fans (split)
sadly as of yet i do not, but trust me im looking, in fact ive just started this last month :)
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Participants: 114211, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2006 David C: Things I noticed as a new poster
So a lot of you here are regulars, and so are familiar with the site's quirks, but since I'm new, I spotted a couple things that could be cleared up.…
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Participants: David C, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, daMoose_Neo.

11/30/2006 David Artman: Anti-Spamming Techniquees
As we seem to have a few spammers getting through the site registration, perhaps you would benefit from reading this thread: http://www.somniturne.com/gtp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=425 Basically, I asked for a minor tweak to…
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Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards, anders_larsen, c.

11/22/2006 nystul: Hello All
Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place - I just wanted to give a shout-out to all and sundry. I dropped out of the game industry more than a…
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Participants: nystul, Ron Edwards.

11/9/2006 Jesse Custer: Forum to discuss campaign prep
Is this forum for campaigns too? I have a campaign of mine that I've been refining for a while and I would like to discuss it (and my design decisions)…
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Participants: Jesse Custer, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

10/31/2006 GB Steve: Can we have less beating the meat?
Is it necessary to have "wanking" in subject headers? S'all. Steve
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2006 Ron Edwards: Deleting with author's permission
Hi there, Occasionally, the forum software doesn't let me split threads. It works most of the time and not always. Clinton tells me it's buried way deep in the code…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/30/2006 c: Forge Vision versus Clyde's selfishness
I've created this thread in response to Ron's Forge Vision thread. I was worried I might muddy the waters too much posting this there. It's likely not as interesting as…
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Participants: c, Ron Edwards.

9/21/2006 Ruminator: Messages?
Is ti just me or are PMs broken?  The system says that I have 2 messages, yet when I click on that link, nothing is there.  I have tried with…
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Participants: Ruminator, Eero Tuovinen.

9/17/2006 Ron Edwards: Forge vision
Hey everyone, Recently, I engaged in a discussion at Story Games in which I was asked by Kuma why "the Forge" is not being leveraged as an actual commercial brand…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, r_donato, Blankshield, joepub, abzu, Frank T, Hans.

9/15/2006 Ron Edwards: Forge retrospective project - please join in!
Hey, I had an idea. Sort of a community project, really. Pick any single six-week period during the Forge's history. Check out all the Forge threads during that time, including…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, Paka, Alex Fradera, Eliarhiman6, Troy_Costisick, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, jrs.

9/5/2006 Ron Edwards: Important annual reminder
Happy birthday, Clinton!! Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, coffeestain, Troy_Costisick, Clinton R. Nixon, matthijs, Artanis, Marhault, r_donato.

8/24/2006 Andy Kitkowski: Quick question on First Thoughts and House Rules
Hey all, I have a question that was passed to me by an acquaintance. I'm basically helping him find "the right forum/site" for discussing this sort of thing. Say I…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 lev_lafayette: Wither theory?
Now that the RPG Theory and GNS Model discussion boards have been closed I'm at a bit of loss on where theoretical perspectives on roleplaying ought to be published. Or…
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Participants: lev_lafayette, r_donato, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

8/22/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: Planned downtime 8/27
The Forge will be down for maintenance, and hopefully, spam prevention on Aug 27, 2006 all day.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

8/16/2006 Denise: Question- publisher #s vs. fans
I was just wondering, how many people are there here who do not have some sort of affiliation with a publisher? 
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Participants: Denise, David Artman, Gaerik, Technocrat13, Dev, Valamir, Thunder_God.

8/13/2006 Ramidel: Spam threat once again
First Thoughts Forum has just been attacked by a spammer (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20841.0 among other threads). As if we haven't attracted enough spam already this month. Now that we've apparently hit the…
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Participants: Ramidel, Thomas D, Wolfen, signoftheserpent, r_donato.

8/9/2006 Randulf: Stealth messages?
Hi, up at the top of the screen it says "Hey, Randulf, you have 2 messages, 0 are new. " but when I click the word messages I am taken…
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Participants: Randulf.

8/6/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: Forge news - Aug 5 2006
Two administrator notes: 1) After the recent spam, I am taking a hard line against spam on here. If a post smells like spam, and the author has not posted…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

7/31/2006 master dwarf: PM Spam
I just got spammed via the private message feature of the forums.  User: Don Johnson.  Anybody else encounter this?  Could somebody look into this and squash it?
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Participants: master dwarf, Kicker, Claudia Cangini, Johanna, signoftheserpent, ricmadeira, Gasten, J-MK, Hawk, drozdal, Clinton R. Nixon, thwaak, Silmenume, Lord Shield, David Johansen, greyorm, Thunder_God, droog, Ron Edwards, Jonny Nexus, Bardsandsages, Eva Deinum, epweissengruber, Bankuei.

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12/7/2006 timfire: Request for Connections forum
Hi Ron, I have a request for the Connections forum, but it's a personal preference, so it's your call on the subject. When an artist posts, I would like to…
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Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, David Artman.

12/14/2006 yogshog: Other formats for all these wonderful ideas
So, I'm someone who has trouble reading large amounts of text online, but I am fascinated by the discussions and things here. Is there any way to export all the…
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Participants: yogshog, Ron Edwards, jerry, David Artman.

12/14/2006 M. J. Young: Theory 101 Third Article Posted
I neglected to mention it last week as I've been pretty preoccupied with other matters, and I apologize because it should have been a priority. The new issue of Places…
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Participants: M. J. Young.

12/18/2006 Simon C: Post counts
Hi Ron, I've been posting to these boards for a little while now, and run the full arc from "this is dumb" through "I don't understand why things are done…
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Participants: Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, David Artman, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Valamir.

1/2/2007 kapnkrunch: Bookshelf Accounts: Need help, please
Due to a bit of sloppiness on my part I have 3 seperate accounts at http://bookshelf.indie-rpgs.com. I would like to consolidate these accounts into one so that I can see…
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Participants: kapnkrunch, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/7/2007 AdAstraGames: Finding the Big Model
Ron, I'm afraid I've gotten lost trying to find the final state of the Big Model. I've read the Glossary, I've looked at the PDF linked from the Glossary, and…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Ron Edwards, r_donato, Thunder_God, jrs.

1/9/2007 Clinton R. Nixon: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Hi, all! I upgraded the forums on January 9th, which should really help with the spam nonsense we've had. There's no new features I know of to announce at this…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, crowyhead, Miskatonic, Noon, Chris Goodwin, Graham Walmsley.

9/7/2005 GB Steve: Connection problems
I had a hard time connecting just now. I kept getting a page with not much on except a short message at the top saying all the connections were busy.…
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Participants: GB Steve, AsuraDemon.

1/16/2007 YeGoblynQueenne: About that edit button...
It was suggested to me that I should ask about it here as this is the appropriate forum for that kind of stuff. So, first excuse the previous breach of…
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Participants: YeGoblynQueenne, Blankshield, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2007 zoom: Links
Hello Could somebody help me. I'd like permission to add this site to my links page on my new website. I am a role player based in manchester in England…
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Participants: zoom, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/18/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: Frank's summary of the Big Model
For what it’s worth, I once wrote a brief summary of what Tony called the “Ron Edwards stuff” for a German RPG board. Of course, this is filtered through my…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, Everspinner, M. J. Young, Gaerik, Troy_Costisick, Filip Luszczyk, Gugliandalf.

2/1/2007 Denise: 2007 ENnies- increasing Indie participation again
Wasn't sure where to put this, so this'll have to do!  (Conventions?  But it's more than just a Gen Con thang... Publishers?  But publishers aren't eligible to run for judgehood,…
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Participants: Denise, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, c, Calithena.

2/2/2007 Zathreyel: A Call For Help
Everyone here at the Forge, My name is Michael O'Sullivan.  I've been a member here at the Forge for a number of years now, posting occasionally when I saw something…
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Participants: Zathreyel.

4/3/2007 r_donato: Forge Borthday Forum this year?
Will the Forge birthday forum be repoened this year? It is the appropriate time.
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Participants: r_donato, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2007 MatrixGamer: Reality check
Am I wrong? It looks like the rate of posting is declining on the forum. Is that a problem? Do we need to do anything about it? Chris Engle Hamster…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

4/14/2007 greyorm: A plague of 500 Internal Server Errors
As per the subject line. For the last few months I have been aggravated by "500 Internal Server Errors" that crop up more than half the time when I attempt…
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Participants: greyorm, Eric J., Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Xeriar, Thenomain, oliof, Clinton R. Nixon, xenopulse, hix, Thunder_God.

4/15/2007 northerain: Private Messages - Bug?
Hi there I've been away for quite a while and I just came back to this forum. So the site says I have 2 new messages. When I check my…
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Participants: northerain, Eero Tuovinen.

4/18/2007 RobNJ: Changing username
Hey, would it be possible for me to change my username for the forum?
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Participants: RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

4/18/2007 rylen dreskin: Hunt for a Kicker thread
Is there a good thread on writing kickers?  I’ve tried to search but keep getting a 500 error. My group has been playing Shadowrun lately.  We’ve switching gears, retiring the…
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Participants: rylen dreskin, c, oliof, Eliarhiman6.

5/2/2007 Andy Kitkowski: Practical Things we can individually do to Revitalizing the Forge?
In the Apt thread over here, Ben started something that got drowned out. It's important enough that I think it should be given another look-through: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23771.45 Ben has some ideas…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, northerain, xenopulse, M. J. Young, anders_larsen, David Artman.

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