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7/19/2002 James: Other idea for a "finder"
[quote="unodiablo"]Like the title says, I'm looking for 2 or 3 people to game with weekly, or every-other-week.[/quote] I live nowhere near Madison (unfortunately), but I'm glad to see the posting,…
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Participants: James, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, xiombarg, Matt Gwinn.

7/19/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Player/contributor locator
I think I've asked for a Player Locator function before. But check this out: It would be very cool if there were fields in user profiles that gave info. as…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, Jürgen Mayer.

7/18/2002 Zak Arntson: Order of Independent Game Forums
I don't know how important this is, but it's a feature request: Ordering the Independent Game Forums by activity. It's a judgement call on what "activity" means, but I'd love…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Inactive Forums
As you can well see, I've created a new forum category (Inactive Forums) and placed two forums there. - Wicked Press has been moved there due to John Wick, the…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, James, Matt Snyder, xiombarg, contracycle.

7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: This morning's slowness
I'm not sure what's up this morning, but the database is running very slow. I'm talking with customer service as I type this, so we should be back to normal…
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7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: Forge Archive Discussion
My Forge Archive Plan is available. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or concerns about the plan in general, this would be the place to talk about them.…
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Participants: Ring Kichard, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: The Forge Archive
In the threads on the archive, Ron and Clinton made it pretty clear they didn't have time to do the project themselves. So here is the plan, 1. I'll manually…
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Participants: Ring Kichard.

6/30/2002 hive: homage blog to the prez
I just wanted to post a 'thank you' to clinton for being gracious enough to be running things behind the curtain. I think we all know how difficult it can…
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Participants: hive, Gordon C. Landis, Jesse Paulsen.

6/28/2002 Valamir: Cannot post?
I received an unusual message today: "You can not post so soon after your last post. Please try again shortly..." Never seen that before, and it was a good 5…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Paganini.

6/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Last post viewed
Clinton, There is currently an option to go directly to the most recent post of a thread. Is there any way to set it up so it will take you…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, Seth L. Blumberg, Paganini, Gordon C. Landis.

6/13/2002 Demonspahn: [OT?] Downloading and Maintaining Message Boards
Hi. I guess this post is primarily for Clinton R. Nixon but I wasn't exactly sure where to post it. We have recently released our game Dreamwalker: Roleplaying in the…
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Participants: Demonspahn, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/12/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Something in the ether?
Is it just me, or have there been an unusual number of incidents where someone flamed out and needed a bucket of water dumped on him by a moderator lately?…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

6/8/2002 Nathan: Are We Going Anywhere?
Here are some recent thoughts on the spate of island of misfits threads. My question: Are we going anywhere? In other words, is our process here on the Forge leading…
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Participants: Nathan, Ace, J B Bell, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, greyorm, Fabrice G., Valamir, xiombarg, Paul Czege, Matt.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: what makes me saturated?
Hey, On the island of misfit games thread, as a way of voting in favor of Clinton's game(s)-of-the-month idea, Laurel wrote: ...would probably help diminish the "spread too…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Ace, Zak Arntson, Eric J., Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/4/2002 Paul Czege: the island of misfit games
I need a conversation about this... I don't think anyone will deny that The Forge is a steambath of design effort, a hothouse of creativity. But I can't help but…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, C. Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, xiombarg, Valamir, Bailey, RobMuadib, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Nathan, Laurel, greyorm.

6/3/2002 Ron Edwards: locking things
Hi there, Over in the RPG Theory forum, Eric (Pyron) asked a good question: "... Ron, why bother moving everything from the first tread to a new one, if you…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/29/2002 Paganini: Splits?
Just for my own peace of mind, could someone explain what's going on over in the GNS forum? I have become greatly confused. :) The moderators seem to be wielding…
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Participants: Paganini, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik.

5/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Forge discussion links archive idea
Hello, I know that thread title sounds like glossolalia. It refers to the suggestion made many times, here most recently, that we have some page at the Forge where someone…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/23/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: State of the curmudgeon
Just this morning, I heard about some thread on RPG.net about the Forge. (It's actually about GNS.) I went and read it, and have some thoughts I'd like to share:…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, A.Neill, Joe Murphy (Broin), Valamir, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Sidhain, Seth L. Blumberg, Eric.Brennan, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag, Paganini, Balbinus.

5/23/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Etiquette for Newbies?
The 'charter' of Forge etiquette at the top of this forum is excellent. Is there any way to ensure that newly registered people see this? I don't remember how my…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

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7/25/2002 xiombarg: John Wick Dead at 33
We might want to open the Wicked Press forum for a bit to post an announcement related to this: http://www.rpgnews.rpghost.com/article.php?sid=1613
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Participants: xiombarg, Jason L Blair, Gordon C. Landis, Ben Morgan, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Google indexing the Forums?
Check out what I found while ego-surfing. Can we get a /robots.txt that excludes search engines from the Forums, please? I don't necessarily want a prospective employer to be looking…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

7/29/2002 Paul Czege: strangeness
Hey Clinton, I just posted to the "You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!" thread in Indie Game Design. It gave me a cryptic error that…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/29/2002 Fabrice G.: Problem accessing the forum
Hi, When trying to reach directly the forum index page from my favorite (?) I end up with a pretty: General Error Could not obtain user/online information Powered by phpBB…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Clinton R. Nixon, Victor Gijsbers.

7/30/2002 Valamir: Underworld
What Happened? I show Underworld as going inactive, yet there've been plenty of recent discussions there, and I had been eagerly following along the development of the new version... ???
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: In-Fo-Mation
Two pieces of information for the forum: 1) I will be gone from tomorrow (Aug. 1) to the next Tuesday (Aug. 6). Ron is da man during that time. If…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

8/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Into the Milwaukee hinterlands
Hi everyone, I'm leavin' for GenCon today, so everyone please play nice and keep an eye on the courtesy-levels, discourse-quality, etc, while I'm gone. I'll try to check in once…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/12/2002 Ron Edwards: New days upon us
Hi everybody, This is the first of my many post-GenCon posts. I doubt I'll be able to get even the first wave of them on-line by the end of the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Nathan, pigames, Mytholder, Demonspahn, Balbinus, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, damion.

8/13/2002 Ron Edwards: The bad incident at GenCon
Hello everybody, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Dee at GenCon. This is the guy who published Villains & Vigilantes at 17, and went on to many other games.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, hardcoremoose, Jürgen Mayer, Marco, Doc Midnight, S.Lonergan, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New forum structure
The forums are being reorganized (as we discussed in New days upon us) in order to accomodate more independent game forums. The first big change you'll see will be that…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Paul Czege, Russell Hoyle, Ron Edwards.

8/13/2002 Valamir: Memberslist Suggestion
I was searching through the members list today trying to find the name of someone I wanted to PM (and couldn't quite remember it accurately enough to use Search) when…
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Participants: Valamir.

8/14/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Forge Game Bag
No one buys this stuff (really), but I just wanted to let everyone know that I updated the Forge Cafepress.com store with new stuff, including a jersey, and two bags…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, wyrdlyng, kamikaze.

8/14/2002 Corvus: The Forge in Ken Hite's Out of the Box
The 8/9/2002 column of Ken Hite's Out of the Box talks about various Forge related things. Check it out.
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Participants: Corvus, Valamir.

8/19/2002 Valamir: Announcing the Universalis forum at the Forge
Many of you may remembering periodically hearing about this "Universalis" game being designed by Mike Holmes and myself over the past year. Well its finally here, and finally available. Be…
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Participants: Valamir.

8/22/2002 Ron Edwards: Misplaced game/comics at GenCon
This is barely, barely on-topic, but I can't figure out a way to do it more sensibly ... To folks who were at the booth at GenCon, Did anyone come…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, unodiablo, joshua neff.

8/23/2002 Matt Gwinn: More GenCon Pics
I put up my pics of GENCON if anyone is interested in looking at them. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/errantknight/gencon.html ,Matt G.
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, Adam, Jared A. Sorensen, Chris Passeno, Jürgen Mayer, C. Edwards.

8/23/2002 Jason L Blair: Props To Clinton
This post should have gone up a long time ago but, considering the heat that Clinton's catching over at RPGnet,* I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, amiel, Jürgen Mayer.

8/26/2002 Paul Czege: broken thread
Hey Clinton, The "Dice roll : an attempt at something new " thread in Indie Game Design seems broken in a weird way. There are more posts to it than…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/26/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The grand new Forge plan
Hey, everyone. It's Clinton, your beleagured administrator, having a cup of coffee. Gather 'round. So, here's my semi-annual State of the Forge, as it were: Last week (19-24 August 2002),…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jabberwocky.

8/27/2002 C. Edwards: Username
Hey Clinton, Could you change my username to C. Edwards? I would appreciate it. BTW, were there ever any Forge hoodys at CafePress or am I just imagining that? Chris
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Participants: C. Edwards, Demonspahn, Clinton R. Nixon, mahoux.

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