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1/6/2010 Darcy Burgess: Subtitle in header
Hi Vincent, Didn't there used to be a subtitle under the "the Forge" graphic?  Something like "the internet home of independent RPGs"?  Could we restore/add it? I just linked in…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, 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.


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…
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Participants: elenius, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.


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…
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Participants: lumpley, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, northerain, Frank Tarcikowski, xenopulse, alef0, Miskatonic.


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…
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Participants: HeTeleports, chance.thirteen, Nathan P., Mulrah.


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…
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Participants: RARodger, lumpley.


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…
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Participants: Catelf, Ron Edwards.


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…
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Participants: Ashlin_Evenstar, M. J. Young, greyorm.


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…
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Participants: squirken, lumpley, Catelf, cadman56, fatblogger.


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…
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Participants: Simon C, HeTeleports, greyorm, Paka, lumpley, Jasper Flick.


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…
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Participants: RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, lumpley.


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…
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Participants: Nathan P..


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…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.


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…
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Participants: Adam Dray, M. J. Young, chance.thirteen, Frank Tarcikowski.


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,…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Eliarhiman6, Adam Dray, Vladius, Selene Tan, Ron Edwards, JosephKnight.


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…
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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.


8/8/2009 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…
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Participants: Librabys, Ron Edwards, Noclue, Ben Lehman.


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…
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Participants: Nocker, Ron Edwards.


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.


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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2/24/2010 lumpley: Moreno, a Hero of the Forge
Moreno is vigilant about flagging spam so that Ron or I can come remove it from threads. If you haven't seen spam, it's because Moreno saw it first. Thanks, Moreno!…
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Participants: lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick.


2/25/2010 markgamemaker: Contradictions in the Stickies
Like a good newbie, I'm reading the stickies to make sure what I intend to write about is in the right place.  And right off the bat I'm given the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: markgamemaker, Ron Edwards.


3/12/2010 Paka: Down with Paka
Could my name be changed from Paka to Judd without too much trouble?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paka, lumpley.


3/26/2010 Vladius: The Forge is literally the most pretentious place ever
And I want to be the first person banned from it. It's boring, it's lame, and it perpetuates every single negative stereotype about anything and everything "INDIE" ever. Do you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Vladius.


3/29/2010 Ron Edwards: The Inactive File
Hi there, A lot of you probably don't know where all the spam and stuff goes when Vincent and I remove it. There's a forum here that you're supposed to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Lance D. Allen, Miskatonic, Gregor Hutton, lumpley, M. J. Young.


4/7/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Advice on dealing with new users and ill-fitting threads
I've noticed lately that we're getting new faces here at the Forge. An obvious consequence is that aside from new ideas and viewpoints we're also getting forum chatter: threads that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Luminous, Ron Edwards.


4/22/2010 The Magus: Advice on dealing with old users and what I should post
Hi there First of all I'd like to apologize now for the thread heading.  It is slightly sarcastic but I also feel some clarity for new users might be in…
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Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen.


4/27/2010 Noon: A question on a fundamental, whether it's taken as a given and taught by default
Kind of difficult to phrase this question without a somewhat technical set up first... If you had a real life roulette table, and had a rule "If the ball ends…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, greyorm, M. J. Young, Eliarhiman6.


5/20/2010 snippet: Boonex has ripped me off!
I would like to warn all webmasters who want to create a social networking site not to use Boonex. Boonex is a scam. Heres a group of guys that can't…
In Site Discussion
Participants: snippet, Ron Edwards.


5/28/2010 Ayyavazi: Is it just me, or is the server timing out all the time?
Hello, I've been trying to post regularly over the past week or so on the forge, and my internet connection is superb. I can access just about any website I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ayyavazi, PeterBB, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen.


6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Site Discussion forum and to the Forge - netiquette is here
Welcome to the Forge! This sticky is more-or-less a mission statement, written as a netiquette guide for the site. Goals "Role-playing game" is a legacy term without a good definition.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.


6/21/2010 demiurgeastaroth: Forge bookshelf - who do I contact?
I have a problem with the forge bookshelf, and tried sending an email to webmaster@indie-rpgs.com - but could a "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" What is the correct error? Also, I…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.


7/2/2010 Tomas: Having a Forum for My Independant Game on this Site
I see that this website has a section of forums dedicated to independant games. I've written a game which is 3-4 weeks away from being written up onto a website;…
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Participants: Tomas, Ron Edwards, davidvs, M. J. Young, greyorm.


7/3/2010 Noclue: unread posts dissappearing
Either I'm imagining things or, since the Change, some Unread posts since last visit are dropping off the list when I navigate away even if I haven't read them. They…
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Participants: Noclue.


8/16/2010 slashandz: Does the Forge allow cRPGs?
Hello everyone, I'm a novice RPG designer.  And I just stumbled on and joined this impressive website. I don't have a consistent group to play table top RPGs with in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: slashandz, Vulpinoid, Rafu, Alfryd, VAgentZero, Noon, a flight of stairs, M. J. Young.


8/17/2010 Eliarhiman6: Link in the Archive, to the Archive, don't work
There is a problem in the Forge Archive when there is a link to another thread in the Archive. For example, this post there is a link to another previous…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.


9/28/2010 Noon: Weird spam with forge related addresses?
This is odd - I'm getting hundreds of spam e-mails. But the 'To' field has a few names I'm familiar with. I wont say the full e-mail addies, but stuff…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Noon, Lance D. Allen, masqueradeball, Sander, lumpley, Artanis, David Artman, epweissengruber, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Seamus.


10/2/2010 Vladius: Hi Ron Edwards, please ban me
I have too much brain damage from playing mainsteam games.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Vladius, lumpley, Ar Kayon, Ron Edwards, VAgentZero, BunniRabbi, Frank Tarcikowski.


10/19/2010 Seamus: Anyone else been getting wierd spams from chinese IP
I mention this on the forge because a number of the emails I received, when I click view email source, looks like they were sent to RPG related emails (and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Seamus.


10/29/2010 TrollSlayer: IRC Chat?
I heard that there was an IRC chat on the Forge... is this true? How do I find it? Thanks, TS
In Site Discussion
Participants: TrollSlayer, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards.


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