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In Site Discussion 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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. Burrell, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Adam Dray, Eliarhiman6.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jason Kottler, Ron Edwards.
5/31/2009 GodVIAGRA: VIAGRA $1.15 per pill BUYING VIAGRA samples before BUY
spam
In Site Discussion
Participants: GodVIAGRA, Eldrad, lumpley.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Francesco Berni.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eldrad, Lance D. Allen, Eero Tuovinen.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Schiller, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Miskatonic.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, Sindyr, lumpley, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ayyavazi, hix, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, greyorm, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: one_monkey, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Melinglor, 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,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, soundmasterj, jag, Miskatonic.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.
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
In Site Discussion
Participants: hoefer, Vulpinoid.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: David Artman, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.
9/4/2008 davidberg: new Forge glossary / directory / encyclopedia live off-site
I haven't received any feedback to my submission, so I'm hosting it here:
http://www.david-berg.com/forgeglossary.html
I personally think this is a handy way for folks to familiarize themselves with a variety…
In Site Discussion
Participants: davidberg, Eliarhiman6, jag, Ron Edwards, chance.thirteen, M. J. Young.
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…
In Site Discussion
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…
In Site Discussion
Participants: charlesperez, Ron Edwards.
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In Site Discussion 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…
In Site Discussion
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,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Thunder_God, Marshall Burns, lumpley, Simon C, Noon.
7/23/2009 drkrash: Uploading Material
Allow me to demonstrate my profound internet illiteracy (and perhaps my continued bafflement at deciding the right sub-forum to post in here).
I'd like to upload some playtest materials to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: drkrash, Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards.
8/1/2009 Nocker: GNS Podcast
I'm sorry if it's not the place to post this, I've carefully search a better one, but didn't find.
I'm french, and the Forge forums look like a huge mastodon…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Nocker, Ron Edwards.
8/8/2009 Librabys: my game system feels reject
I just cannot figure where to put it! It is maybe a full page or a little more of text describing the basics of my system, to open a discussion…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Librabys, Ron Edwards, Noclue, Ben Lehman.
8/11/2009 David C: Playtesting forum and Actual Play forum
I know Ron spends a lot of time on this site, and I am eternally grateful. But since I've arrived, there are a couple things that have bothered me about…
In Site Discussion
Participants: David C, Lance D. Allen, Adam Dray, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Selene Tan, Thunder_God, Patrice, DWeird, M. J. Young, jburneko, JoyWriter, Catelf.
8/11/2009 Ayyavazi: Example Games to help me learn GNS
Hello all,
I have been trying to understand GNS for some time now, and am looking to read games that support different agendas (whether explicitly, or simply by coincidence). So,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ayyavazi, Eliarhiman6, Adam Dray, Vladius, Selene Tan, Ron Edwards, JosephKnight.
8/11/2009 Adam Dray: The Forge, Quantified, sorta
Quantcast is a company that provides demographic data for websites. They can do it via a javascript tag the site owner embeds in the site (which The Forge has not…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Adam Dray, M. J. Young, chance.thirteen, Frank Tarcikowski.
8/18/2009 Ron Edwards: Forge posting etiquette policy
[b]I. About the forums[/b]
The purpose of The Forge forums is to promote the design, development, and publication of independent role-playing games. We do not care if the game's sold…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.
8/21/2009 Nathan P.: Re-Branding
Hi everyone,
I've rebranded my publishing endeavors, one result of which is that the Hamsterprophet Productions forum hosted here on the Forge is now the ndp design forum. Announcements of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Nathan P..
8/27/2009 RobNJ: Where to post this?
Mod-folks, Joshua A. C. Newman and I have a new project that's both a podcast and a developing game design. I think it's pretty new and interesting and I wanted…
In Site Discussion
Participants: RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, lumpley.
9/16/2009 Simon C: Service Temporarily Unavailable
The site's been barely usable for me for the last couple of weeks, with extremely slow load times and frequent innaccessibility. I get this error a lot:
Service Temporarily Unavailable…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Simon C, HeTeleports, greyorm, Paka, lumpley, Jasper Flick.
10/13/2009 squirken: Signature
[color=darkred]Has profile information been disabled? I was trying to add my avatar, but the system wont let me. I clicked Profile - and there isnt a link on the left…
In Site Discussion
Participants: squirken, lumpley, Catelf, cadman56, fatblogger.
10/24/2009 Ashlin_Evenstar: 504 error
Hi,
I'm getting a lot of 504 Errors when I come to the Forge anymore. Is there an option I need to turn on or off to help it load…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ashlin_Evenstar, M. J. Young, greyorm.
10/30/2009 Catelf: Advice on the coming Topic or Topic's i may start in a while.
This is several questions in one situation.
I'm also a kind of "newbie" at the Net, so some things isn't as obvious as one might think.
Although, i do think…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Catelf, Ron Edwards.
11/2/2009 RARodger: Mystery messages
My little status thing in the top left corner says I have "2 messages, 2 are new" And yet, when I go to the message center, there are no messages…
In Site Discussion
Participants: RARodger, lumpley.
11/19/2009 HeTeleports: Recapping years' worth of growth
I had written a long and eloquent plea to the previous Forge generation of posters, asking for a kind of recap. I decided the long thing was unnecessary.
Recently, I've…
In Site Discussion
Participants: HeTeleports, chance.thirteen, Nathan P., Mulrah.
11/23/2009 lumpley: IMPORTANT: Scheduled Downtime
Hey everybody. I'm going to be moving the Forge to its new hosting situation this weekend upcoming. I'll bring it down on Thursday the 26th and bring it back up…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, northerain, Frank Tarcikowski, xenopulse, alef0, Miskatonic.
12/24/2009 elenius: Where are the articles?
Several post refer to an "articles" link at the top of the site, but I don't see it. I did find this page:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/glossary.html
which has an "articles" link, but…
In Site Discussion
Participants: elenius, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.
1/5/2010 lumpley: The articles and reviews are back
So that's good.
-Vincent
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Jasper Flick, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Artanis, M. J. Young.
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