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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.

10/17/2002 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.

10/16/2002 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..

10/14/2002 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.

10/13/2002 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.

10/12/2002 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.

10/9/2002 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.

10/7/2002 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.

10/5/2002 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.

10/3/2002 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.

10/3/2002 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 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 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.

10/2/2002 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.

10/2/2002 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.

10/1/2002 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.

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.

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.

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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.

10/31/2002 Ron Edwards: Glossary startup - at last!
Hi there, In the midst of the "Change" thread, I got an idea about the Glossary. OK, here's how it'll go. Everyone has one week to mail me in 250…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Christoffer Lernö, Emily Care, Le Joueur.

11/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Minor layout thing: Not so wide please!
I'm getting a feeling that the columns are getting wider and wider. Any chance that one could alter the width the postings are displayed at? It's easier to read if…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

11/2/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Reviews?
Are there actively reviews being done anymore or is that thing kind of put on hold for a while? I mean with the review forum put away as inactive and…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/3/2002 Jonathan Walton: Ergo: Could/Should be a Forge Article?
If I had to pick a single document that revolutionized my thinking as a game designer, it would not be Ron's GNS Essay (which I only encountered recently), but this…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Andrew Martin, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, RobMuadib, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2002 Ron Edwards: [Forge policy] Review submissions accepted
Hi everyone, At last: a Forge Review Policy for Everyone. QUICK ENLIGHTENING INSIGHT One reason that people post reviews is so they can talk about the game with others. If…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy, ADGBoss.

11/6/2002 Tim Denee: Forge RPG bookshelf
The new bookshelf rocks mightly (mightily. Mightely. Migh..). I assume all the stuff that was in my Anvilwerks bookshelf will soon be available in my Forge bookshelf?
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Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, Patrick Boutin.

11/19/2002 Irmo: Line-by-line replies
[quote]E. Line-by-line replies Line-by-line replies are the online equivalent of interrupting someone after every sentence and arguing that sentence, taking it completely out of context. It is not only highly…
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Participants: Irmo, Ron Edwards, greyorm, A.Neill, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Maurice Forrester, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, Mark D. Eddy, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, contracycle.

11/23/2002 Christoffer Lernö: PayPal - the Frustration
Since so many of you use PayPal, and since my main reason to get my PayPal account working again is to buy indie-rpgs I post my troubles here despite it…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

11/23/2002 Walt Freitag: Citation analysis
It occurs to me that listing Forge threads in descending order of how many times each thread was linked to by another thread would make it easier to find some…
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Participants: Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/27/2002 Emily Care: pop the cork
1000 registered users on the forge.
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Participants: Emily Care, xiombarg.

12/2/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Public admonition
Twice in the last month, Ron's closed threads when people proved themselves not capable of handling the topic. Both times, I've gone to bat and said, "Hey - person A…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2002 Ron Edwards: The Forge as a community (Thread #5 of 5)
Hello, This is thread #5 of the Infamous Five, a related set of threads that I've been instigating over the last few weeks. Each one has spawned a bevy of…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, Ziriel, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Le Joueur, Rich Forest, Bankuei, Maurice Forrester, Steve Dustin, GreatWolf, Valamir, jrients, Blake Hutchins, Clay, Jonathan Walton, wraeththu, MK Snyder, A.Neill, Clinton R. Nixon, Irmo, Emily Care, Kester Pelagius.

12/3/2002 lumpley: Party at My Place
It's our annual winter solstice party, coming up here the 21st, from sunset on Saturday to sunrise on Sunday. If you're in or can get to Western Mass that weekend,…
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Participants: lumpley.

12/4/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The five percent
This is my companion thread to Ron's latest of the Big Five threads, The Forge as a community. It's inspired by recent events here at the Forge, Ron's thought that…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, C. Edwards, Sidhain, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, jrients, Irmo, xiombarg.

12/5/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Off-the-cuff Forge cultural analysis
Moved by some of Irmo's discussion in Ron's "The Forge as a community" thread, I decided to look and see where the Forge is succeeding and failing in relation to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Irmo, C. Edwards, Valamir, Kester Pelagius, Fabrice G., Paganini, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Clay, Le Joueur, Jared A. Sorensen, xiombarg, quozl, lumpley, wyrdlyng, wraeththu, hardcoremoose, Adam, talysman, Jake Norwood, Ziriel, Matt Snyder, Shreyas Sampat, Bankuei, Chris Passeno, greyorm, Matt, contracycle, MK Snyder, Tim Denee, Matt Wilson, Gordon C. Landis, cruciel, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Ted E. Childers, Bob McNamee, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2002 Irmo: The Forge and cultural bias (split from 'Forge as community'
[quote="Mike Holmes"]Irmo, Sounds like standard deconstructionist talk. Next you'll be telling us that the Forge shouldn't use English, as that biases it's production in a way that makes it less…
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Participants: Irmo, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, xiombarg.

12/5/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Thanks, and apologies for all the moderation
I know I've been super-active on the Forge lately, and I know my hand's been a bit heavy. We've had an influx of argument here lately, and, well, I'm not…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Kester Pelagius.

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