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12/10/2007 Andrew Barton: Phantom messages
When I logged in just now, I was told 'you have 2 messages, 2 are new'.  Clicking on this takes me to a messages display, which doesn't show any messages. …
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Participants: Andrew Barton, Valamir, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen.


11/30/2007 Marshall Burns: i have to gush for a minute.
Sorry, but I just have to gush for a moment. This site makes me giddy.  I am so glad that I found it.  I have been reading posts since I…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards.


11/21/2007 contracycle: stupid thread locks
The stupid and counterproductive practice of closing threads because, allegedly, they contain "multiple topics", continues apace.  I wonder if it might be possible to indicate to we mere mortals what…
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Participants: contracycle, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, shark087, Gregor Hutton, Wolfen, Peter Nordstrand, Noclue, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.


11/6/2007 dhorstman: Can't Send or Reply to a PM
OK, I may have just missed that giant PM button on a user's profile so bare with me. I've tried to send a PM from my message box with no…
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Participants: dhorstman, lumpley, monstah, Ron Edwards.


10/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: Pictures in Publishing
I've recently made a game with custom dice. I'd like to post, in Publishing, about how I made them, where I got the various components and so on: one of…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.


10/2/2007 SaintandSinner: Problems with Forge Bookshelf
I sent the following message to (webmaster@indie-rpgs.com) but it bounced back.  Is there a better place to send these concerns? To Whom It May Concern: I bought the Prime Time…
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Participants: SaintandSinner, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, lumpley.


10/2/2007 David C: Seriously, the edit button has got to come back
Ok, I know this has come up before and the reasons the edit button isn't there. However, I also know there are forums that allow limited editing (30 minutes after…
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Participants: David C, Ron Edwards, lumpley, David Artman, rycanada, Eliarhiman6, Filip Luszczyk.


9/23/2007 KickAssClown: Confused about where to contribute reference resources.
I often enough find interesting books and other resources regarding game development and design. I would like to post them for people to look at and consider; especially, since a…
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Participants: KickAssClown, Ron Edwards.


9/12/2007 Ron Edwards: Sight design: we're monkeying around a bit
Hi guys, Vincent and I are modifying the look and use of the site a little bit. Some of these have been discussed by Clinton and me for a while,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.


9/7/2007 migo: Is there a good system for presenting first thoughts?
I'm reading through a lot of the first thoughts people are posting here and I'm having much the same "whahuh?" reaction that I'm pretty sure my mechanic produced. Is there…
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Participants: migo, Ron Edwards, Noon.


9/6/2007 SaintandSinner: Ex-Wizard shows some love to indie games.
Ryan Dancy is talking up non-traditional formats for gaming.  Specifically gives props to Ron etal at this board.  Kinda interesting...maybe we will take over the (gaming) world, even if…
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Participants: SaintandSinner, Noon, Ron Edwards.


9/4/2007 Ron Edwards: It is indeed September 4th
Happy birthday, Clinton!! Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Clinton R. Nixon, GreatWolf, Gaerik, Noon, Parthenia.


8/26/2007 Arvidos: Definition of Indie RPGs
I suppose this should have been in the RPG theory forum, but my question concerns the name and description of this site, after all, so here goes: After some confusion…
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Participants: Arvidos, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk, TwoCrows.


8/22/2007 contracycle: status of external properties
I would like to request some clarity/ruling on the extent to which we can discuss game ideas for a existing property held by someone else, your typical sort of movie…
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Participants: contracycle, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.


8/20/2007 Eliarhiman6: The misleading First Thoughts...
Hi! I am posting this to suggest changing the name of the "first thoughts" sub-forum. Why? Because most of the web forums have a "welcome, present yourself" area for new…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, David Artman, Limejello, lumpley, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, David C.


8/17/2007 phatonin: Please allow me to introduce myself...
I've skimmed through The Forge and couldn't find a thread for my-name-is-my-feats-are... Polite people introduce themselves and feel awkward at posting for the first time in a forum without doing…
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Participants: phatonin, Ron Edwards.


8/12/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Posts eating monster sighted?
So, this was posted by ODDin in another thread: Hmm, that's weird, I could swear I posted in this thread, yet I see no post, nor did I get any…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, lumpley.


8/10/2007 cognis: Disappeared messages?
Hi, I've been away from roleplaying, and thus my indieRPGs account, for about a year. I just logged in for the first time since then. My little summary in the…
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Participants: cognis, Ron Edwards.


7/31/2007 ldd23: (forum bug?) I've got phantom PMs
This shows up at the top of the forum page for me: Hey, ldd23, you have 2 messages, 2 are new. But when I click on the "2 messages"…
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Participants: ldd23, jrs.


7/29/2007 asdfff: [just curious] How does one get a publisher forum here?
Just purely out of curiosity. How does one get a publisher forum here? (In the "Independent Game Forums" sub-group.) For instance, there are definitely more mid-to-high-profile authors writing small for-sale…
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Participants: asdfff, lumpley, Ron Edwards.


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12/11/2007 Mencelus: How to unregister?
I'm hardly here, and I just remembered that I have an account here! How does on unregister? Thanks.
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Participants: Mencelus, lumpley.


1/15/2008 Artanis: Forge-sponsored games?
I was reading the Dreamtion 2008 web-page where I read that there would be "DOZENS of Independently Published Role Playing Games Sponsored by The Forge as part of the Indie…
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Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.


1/12/2008 chronoplasm: Double posting rules?
Hi, I don't know if it's been said anywhere already, but since we can't edit posts, I was wondering what the rules in this forum concerning double posting are? Lets…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Ron Edwards.


1/22/2008 Ron Edwards: Game content and Forge policy
I've decided to address some points made in another thread, Satanic Panic! (Power 19 answered). It's better handled here because it touches on my policies and I think will gum…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.


1/26/2008 Beatnik gamer: A BTRC forum?
Could we please have a BTRC forum so that fhans of EABA, CORPS, etc, can have a place to meet and talk? I've talked with Greg Porter re one and…
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Participants: Beatnik gamer, Ron Edwards, btrc.


1/31/2008 Beatnik gamer: Would you like a BTRC forum? Ask for it here!
Ok, if I can find a handful of people who want a BTRC games forum here, one will get created. So, like whatshisname and his lamp looking for an honest…
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Participants: Beatnik gamer, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm.


2/3/2008 casquilho: New to the Forge
Hello All, I had the opportunity to exchange a few Emails with Ron and he pointed me to this forum. So i wanted to say hello and to let Ron…
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Participants: casquilho, Ron Edwards.


2/5/2008 Noon: Lot of timing out at the forge?
For awhile I atleast seem to be getting alot of page timeouts. The page just wont come up for a few minutes, then for a few more minutes it'll work…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards.


2/6/2008 demicanadian: Kudos
Greetings! Yes, I'm a Forge frosh. I'm really genuinely surprised at never having heard of this site before a week ago. I know, talk about rolling a critical failure! …
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Participants: demicanadian, Valamir, Ron Edwards.


2/21/2008 davidberg: The Forge as Reference
In my time spent learning Big Model concepts and terms at the Forge, many folks have been very helpful in giving me links to older threads where some term was…
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Participants: davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.


2/27/2008 Ian.Plumb: Archiving
Hi, Back in its glory days The Riddle of Steel had an amazingly active forum on The Forge. There is a wealth of material here on TRoS in particular its…
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Participants: Ian.Plumb, lumpley.


3/4/2008 Galadrin: RIP Gary Gygax
Thanks for the games, Gary. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...oAGrAD8V6PDJ00
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Participants: Galadrin, lachek, Ron Edwards.


3/5/2008 anders_larsen: Ideas for how to get better feedback in First Thought
I am not so active in First Thought anymore as I used to be, so I may not be the right person to be saying what I am about to…
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Participants: anders_larsen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.


3/27/2008 apeiron: A Calendar Page
Would it be possible to have a calendar listing events that Forge members are hosting or attending?  This is the calendar i made for NoVA Game Smiths.
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Participants: apeiron, Ron Edwards, Artanis, M. J. Young, lumpley.


3/28/2008 lumpley: Calendar Trial Period
I've enabled the forum's calendar function. You can see a link up there at the top of the screen underneath the Forge logo. I clicked on and off some arbitrary…
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Participants: lumpley, Troy_Costisick, David Artman, Artanis.


4/8/2008 shadowcourt: CRN Games Forum now Inactive?
I noticed someone posted something about this on the CRN Games forum itself, but I figured it might not get to the appropriate individuals' notice if it was only there.…
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Participants: shadowcourt, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, Adrian F..


4/25/2008 Particle_Man: "you have two messages"
Either I have two messages that I cannot access, or else the computer is lying to me and I actually have no messages.  Don't know which.
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Participants: Particle_Man, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen.


5/9/2008 David Artman: Forum Performance?
Is it just me, or luck, or what--the site has become very, very slow to respond, with many 504 Errors (Service Unavailable). Maybe the forum database needs some pruning or…
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Participants: David Artman, lumpley.


5/28/2008 rycanada: Linking directly to a Reply / Comment?
I tried searching for this and I tried a few strings of code, but no luck. Is there a way to link directly to a single comment, so only that…
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Participants: rycanada, lumpley, Ron Edwards.


6/18/2008 Ron Edwards: Erick Wujcik
Many of you know that Erick Wujcik died June 7, of pancreatic cancer. I ran across this passage that I hope will be a reminder to the community here, and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.


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