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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.

8/22/2002 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.

8/19/2002 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.

8/14/2002 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.

8/14/2002 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.

8/13/2002 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.

8/13/2002 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 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.

8/12/2002 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.

8/6/2002 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.

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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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.

7/29/2002 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.

7/29/2002 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.

7/26/2002 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.

7/25/2002 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.

7/24/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The Riddle of Steel review up
The Riddle of Steel review is up in the reviews section.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.

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.

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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.

8/28/2002 Michael James Bogue: The Reviews
Hello everyone! This is a fabulous site, but I have only one, very minor, complaint. The columns on the "Reviews" section are waaay too narrow. I think prose columns should…
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Participants: Michael James Bogue.

8/29/2002 Paul Czege: proposal: two new categories for the Resource Library
Hey, I propose we get two new categories in the Resource Library: 1) Indie RPG Fan Support, which would collect links to things like Ralph's Orkworld stuff, and the recently…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/30/2002 rafael: username
um, i would also like to change my username. can i have it changed to rafael? thanks! -- rafael
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Participants: rafael, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/31/2002 pigames: Doesn't Log me on automatically each visit
Doesn't Log me on automatically each visit. Any ideas? Running Mac MS Internet Explorer 5.1 And, yes, cookies are enabled. Thanks
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Participants: pigames, Ferry Bazelmans.

9/3/2002 Caveman Lawyer: Hello!
Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Matt Foley, and I am a motivational speaker. No, actually my name is Tim Harris, and I am designing a RPG. I…
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Participants: Caveman Lawyer, Ron Edwards.

9/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Yup, Clinton and I have the same birthday - today. I'm 38. Makes you just look up at the starry sky and say, "H'm," doesn't it? At least it would…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon, Ferry Bazelmans, Le Joueur, GreatWolf, xiombarg, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, C. Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Adam, wyrdlyng, greyorm, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, Eric J., Jason L Blair.

9/5/2002 S.Lonergan: Monkey fall down, Go boom
Is it possible to have my username changed please..... to just S.Lonergan, Thanks! - Seamus
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9/5/2002 jdagna: Broken Article Links
Is it just me, or is the link to the GNS article (and a couple of others) broken? I managed to get through Chapter 4 when I first started reading…
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Participants: jdagna, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/9/2002 Jeremy Cole: posting woes
Hi Clinton, I have an ongoing problem with being unable to post long posts. I can't seem to post more than one window or so, otherwise when I attempt to…
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Participants: Jeremy Cole.

9/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Stupid question about forum quirkiness
If one looks at the forum icon explanations there are these moving icons for popular threads. However, during my time here I've never ever seen a moving icon. Is that…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/18/2002 C. Edwards: Forge Goodies
I've had my Forge hoodie and jersey for a couple weeks now and I am quite pleased with my purchase. Both are made very well and fit great. The hoodie…
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Participants: C. Edwards, Jonathan Walton, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/19/2002 Paul Czege: creating a reputation we don't want to have
In the Experimental mechanic (context-free) thread, Nadav wrote: Here's a half-baked idea that fell on me last night just before I went to sleep. It's quite possible someone…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, deadpanbob, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, Christoffer Lernö.

9/24/2002 John Wick: Once again, why I do not fear making a post at The Forge
Yes, I made a post over at rpg.net. Yes, a bunch of people started throwing personal insults at me (most of whom haven't read my work or even know what…
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Participants: John Wick, TSL, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob, Zak Arntson, greyorm, James, Christoffer Lernö, Jake Norwood, wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, pigames, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, Valamir, Jeffrey Miller, Balbinus.

9/27/2002 greyorm: RPG Hate Issue - important
Well folks, don't think it can't happen to you. I just lost my job over the issues being discussed here. Not because my boss wanted me gone, not because we…
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Participants: greyorm, Wart, Jeremy Cole, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Clay, Christoffer Lernö, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins, xiombarg, Matt Gwinn, Dr. Awkward.

10/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Forge vocab one more time
I know there are threads where usefull stuff is defined, like IIEE and so on. AND we have the GNS eassay and so on. This is usually the thing pointed…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, CC Douglas, Andrew Martin, Paul Czege, Emily Care, Eric J., Kester Pelagius, Seth L. Blumberg, Marco, Adam.

10/2/2002 James V. West: New column at RPG.net features The Pool
Hey everyone. Bent Pages by Tim Denee is now up at RPG.net and for his first offering he kindly chose The Pool! What do you folks think?
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Participants: James V. West, mahoux.

10/2/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Resource Library policies (in real world practice)
Everyone, Recently, I had an individual request links to his website removed from the Resource Library. I was caught at what to do, so I'm going to outline the entire…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

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