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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.

9/19/2002 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.

9/18/2002 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.

9/16/2002 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.

9/9/2002 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.

9/5/2002 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.

9/5/2002 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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Participants: S.Lonergan, Clinton R. Nixon.

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.

9/3/2002 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.

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.

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.

8/29/2002 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.

8/28/2002 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.

8/27/2002 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.

8/26/2002 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.

8/26/2002 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.

8/23/2002 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.

8/23/2002 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.

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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.

10/3/2002 Christoffer Lernö: A random question about the phpbb logo
I was just wondering why the phpbb logo is in the upper left corner and not the Forge picture or something like that. Just wondering.
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Seth L. Blumberg.

10/3/2002 Kester Pelagius: Hope this is the right place for posting this...
It's the oddest thing. Think it might of happened when I went to read personal e-mail, though I didn't notice it at the time, when I returned to the forums…
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Participants: Kester Pelagius, Christoffer Lernö.

10/3/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Game Development @ meetup.com
Meetup.com is a site to plan monthly meetings of people in your community interested in a certain topic. A while back, I suggested a game development meeting to them, and…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/3/2002 kevin671: How do I get my own Indie RPG Forum?
I don't know if this is really the right place to put this thread, but here I go anyway. 1. What do I need to get my own indie RPG…
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Participants: kevin671, Ron Edwards.

10/5/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Resource Library- how to contribute?
When I find outdated or missing links in the Resource Library, how do I do? Do I submit stuff even though I'm not the author? What about submitting new links?…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/7/2002 ThunderCheetah: Introduction
Hello all! I was a former Player in Ron's group at DePaul, would still be if I hadn't transferred ... Anyway, I've played a couple games mentioned in this Forum…
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Participants: ThunderCheetah, Ron Edwards.

10/9/2002 Valamir: RPG Radio!
I just discovered RPG Radio and am currently listing to the grinding power sounds of Cthulhu Dream: Let Sleeping Gods Lie from Darkest of Hillside Thickets. MP3 with an option…
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Participants: Valamir.

10/12/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: Select a forum
I've been using the Select a forum popup menu to navigate the site an awful lot lately, but I've notice a small flaw in it which I'm not sure if…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/13/2002 Kester Pelagius: Board Strangeness...
Greetings, Don't know who would be the one to email about this but something wonky seems to be going on. I've tried, oh, upwards of a dozen or so times…
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Participants: Kester Pelagius.

10/14/2002 Tim C Koppang: View Posts Since Your Last Visit
Suggestion: I use the "View Posts Since Your Last Visit" function of the Forge every single time I visit it. I think it's the greatest thing on earth, but I…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Clinton R. Nixon, M. J. Young.

10/16/2002 Jake Norwood: Lots of folks on the Forge
Just thought I'd point it out, but we hit 900 registered forge people today. That's twice what it was in April, when I wandered in here. Cool. Jake
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Christoffer Lernö, Paul Czege, ethan_greer, Eric J..

10/17/2002 Matt Snyder: Snyder abducted by aliens rumor debunked
Hey all. I thought I’d post a bit of an explanation as to where the hell I’ve been of late. Or rather what I’ve been up to (and not up…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, Adam, Jürgen Mayer.

10/20/2002 Christoffer Lernö: A "indie games featured on the Forge forums" guide
I was surfing around on the indie game forums, and something struck me: a) There might be a lot of good stuff here. In fact it most certainly is and…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

10/23/2002 Maurice Forrester: Dread forum?
Are there any plans for adding a Malignant Games/Dread forum to the Independent Games section of the site? I just got my copy of the game and I'm looking forward…
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Participants: Maurice Forrester, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2002 greyorm: Faulty Search Feature?
Anyone else been having this problem: You search for a thread you know the exact title of and author, and yet the Search feature returns "No Results." (ie: try doing…
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Participants: greyorm, Christoffer Lernö, jrs.

10/29/2002 Andy Kitkowski: More topics per page?
Hey- As we've seen, The Forge is attracting more and more people all the time. Some forums, like Indie Game Design and Game Theory are scrolling quite fast. I was…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/30/2002 Matt Snyder: "We fear change!"
Question for everyone -- why are there fewer and fewer encouraging responses and rigorous discussions in the Indie Game Design forum? To me, that forum (and maybe Actual Play) is…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Christoffer Lernö, Bob McNamee, M. J. Young, Tim C Koppang, hardcoremoose, Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, ethan_greer, Clay, Bankuei, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Kester Pelagius, RobMuadib, xiombarg, Paganini, A.Neill, Walt Freitag.

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