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8/15/2008 septrax: Hi i tought this was
Hi there im new here and think this looks liek a very active forum :) Well the reason i foudn this forum is that my friend said that the forge…
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Participants: septrax, dindenver, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2008 charlesperez: Is a plug-in for 4th Ed. D&D a good subject for First Thoughts?
While perusing the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, a set of rules for providing social context for player characters sort of tore its way out of my brain onto…
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Participants: charlesperez, Ron Edwards.

7/17/2008 kuzuk: DiceForge
Hi guys, I have been reading some of the interesting stuff on the forge over the last weeks and I must say I have gained a lot of new ideas…
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Participants: kuzuk, Ron Edwards, Artanis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

3/5/2008 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.

3/4/2008 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.

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.

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.

2/6/2008 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.

2/5/2008 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.

2/3/2008 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.

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.

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.

1/22/2008 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.

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9/12/2008 lumpley: The recent outage
Hey so we were out recently, then we came back, and there was a database error. It lasted most of the day today. I give it a 9 in 10…
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Participants: lumpley.

9/23/2008 David Artman: DC Residents GO HELP!
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ If you live in the DC area, PLEASE go join these guys, like RIGHT NOW! They are likely to be arrested any minute, if there's no witnesses to support…
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Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards.

9/26/2008 hoefer: Boxed Quotes
Some of you reply to a post with boxed text quoting a previous post.  I am somewhat of a techno-tard, please help.  How do I do that? Louis
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Participants: hoefer, Vulpinoid.

10/11/2008 lumpley: The Bad Service
Hey. This thing where the forge is not connecting intermittently all day for two-going-on-three days now? It's a thing. The webhost knows about the problem, has identified the cause, and…
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Participants: lumpley.

11/3/2008 David C: Pretty easy request - Bookmark/Tab icon
There is an icon associated with many web pages that appears next to a bookmark or a tab.  I would appreciate it if you guys added this for the forge,…
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Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, soundmasterj, jag, Miskatonic.

1/5/2009 Melinglor: Posting test
I've been having trouble sending a post, so Vincent asked me to post this as a test. So here we are, Vincent! This post works fine, and I've posted a…
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Participants: Melinglor, lumpley.

1/5/2009 lumpley: Error 412 - anti-spam exceptions
Hey everybody. If you get an Error 412 Precondition Failed message, you've triggered the Forge's (actually, the server's) anti-spam measures. I've specifically allowed the word "gambling" through. If you want…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2009 one_monkey: First Post Uncertainty
Hi, I wanted to invite anyone reading in the vicinity of Nottingham UK to participate in the test of a new RPG which is not just new in terms of…
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Participants: one_monkey, Ron Edwards.

3/5/2009 Darcy Burgess: Feature Request
Hi Vincent, Here's a feature I wish the Forge had. That "jump to" pulldown list that appears at the bottom of just about every page? I wish that it was…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

3/22/2009 Ayyavazi: GNS and Practicality
Greetings all, I am hoping this is the right place to post this, since I think it would normally be reserved for the Theory board. Basically, after having read all…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, hix, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, greyorm, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

4/3/2009 The Magus: Discussion of Social Contract theories at the Forge
As a relative newbie to the Forge I am aware that the RPG Theory forum is now closed.  I've read a number of articles on the GNS model and feel…
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Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, Sindyr, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2009 The Magus: Why isn't the Forge promoting all these swell games?
I think this is a really interesting site but it is somewhat intimidating to the new user.  One of the things I'm not all that keen on is the lack…
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Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Schiller, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Miskatonic.

5/10/2009 Eldrad: Unclassified Forum
Can there be an unclassified forum to post things about gaming that fit in no other category? There are times that I may have gamer related interest that would not…
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Participants: Eldrad, Lance D. Allen, Eero Tuovinen.

5/29/2009 Francesco Berni: Accont security problem
Hello, i'm new on the forge and i am an information tecnology student. In my registration i have tipe for error one time the wrong nick and one time the…
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Participants: Francesco Berni.

5/31/2009 GodVIAGRA: VIAGRA $1.15 per pill BUYING VIAGRA samples before BUY
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Participants: GodVIAGRA, Eldrad, lumpley.

6/10/2009 Jason Kottler: Etiquitte and Blog Links
So - is it considered Bad Form here to just post a summary and a link to a blog post? I've been doing that, just to avoid plastering the same…
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Participants: Jason Kottler, Ron Edwards.

6/19/2009 M. Burrell: Reading-List for Forge Neophytes
There is, I'm aware, a vast backlog of articles, essays and protracted threads regarding the practice and theory of RPGs and their construction here on the Forge. However, is there…
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Participants: M. Burrell, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Adam Dray, Eliarhiman6.

7/1/2009 Ayyavazi: Are Narrativism and Gamism really Mutually Exclusive?
Hello again all, My question is the the topic, but first I'd like to give an idea of my understanding of the terms. When I think Gamism, I think competition,…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Ron Edwards.

7/3/2009 mogunus: Compiling Forge texts (split)
Hello all. I am a huge forge neophyte. I started reading literally two days ago and was instantly hooked. There is a really wonderful resource and community here. Anyway. I…
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Participants: mogunus, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

7/21/2009 Thunder_God: Jumping Text-Box.,
I don't know if it's just me, which it might, but the last couple of days whenever I post more text than the default comment-box has space, my "text-box" jumps,…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Marshall Burns, lumpley, Simon C, Noon.

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