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8/14/2001 Uncle Dark: typefaces
Clinton, Why do some posts have a normal font size and others are dropped to eyestrain-sized print when they are posted? It's really rather annoying. Lon
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Participants: Uncle Dark, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/14/2001 Paul Czege: missing content
Hey Clinton, I think some content has fallen out of the database. Do a search on "business" and you'll see a thread called "Web Publishing" in the "Publishing" forum. Try…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson.

8/10/2001 lumpley: Help! Can't Login!
I'm having trouble logging in. In fact, I'm just hoping this message somehow goes through. What happens: I hit login, I enter my name and password, I hit submit, it…
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Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/10/2001 Theory of X: Clinton
Didn't know hwere to put this comment, but I just read a few articles from your website and they were good reading. Just wanted to say thanks for the good…
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Participants: Theory of X, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/9/2001 greyorm: Forum Background
Why is the background sometimes white and sometimes black? I thought it was "logged in" vs. "not logged in", but then it turned around on me...what the heck? Personally, I…
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Participants: greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/7/2001 Epoch: Heh
From the top of the page: The newest Registered User is -Clinically Insane-. Aren't we all...
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Participants: Epoch.

7/29/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Site changes
In case anyone's wondering, I'm changing the site look and feel today. I'll let you know when I'm finished.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Jack Spencer Jr, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, John Wick, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2001 Philippe Tromeur: Introducing myself
Hello I'm Philippe Tromeur and I'm living in France (in Brest, the city at the end of the world). In fact, I'm French, which explains some bizarre grammar & style…
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Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Levekius, joshua neff, Dav, Paul Czege.

7/26/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Virus Alert!!
I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but, eh, close enough. If you've recently received an email from me pblock eeville@dreamscape.com asking for help with the…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Clinton R. Nixon, Epoch, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/20/2001 Epoch: Author submitted library
And I still can't log in.
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Participants: Epoch, gizem, James V. West.

7/9/2001 Epoch: Logging into author submitted library?
So, I can't do this yet. I know that there was a general problem with it a while back -- is that still a general problem, or has it been…
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Participants: Epoch, hardcoremoose.

6/27/2001 Jason L Blair: Linkies in the Lye-berry
Two things: The Soul Axis link (under free rpgs) is bwoken and the Crucible Design, unless I'm terribly mistaken, is only available as a priced book but is listed under…
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Participants: Jason L Blair.

6/15/2001 Logan: Private messages and messages per page
Hi, Clinton. A couple quick questions about the way the forum works. Is there some way that private messages I send can be saved so I can see what I've…
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Participants: Logan, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege.

6/6/2001 Levekius: Introducing myself...
Hello all ! :smile: The name is Martin, the rest is in my profile. :smile: I used to come to the forge once in a while. But I hadn't been…
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Participants: Levekius, Ron Edwards.

5/24/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Breaking records
I just wanted everyone to know how active the board's been--I know you've seen it in post volume, but here's some raw stats: Yesterday, we had 15,685 page views on…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Dav.

5/19/2001 Ron Edwards: So the Forge is back/Questions
Hi Brian, Welcome to the Forge, and please consider this post a do-over from events earlier today. I'd be glad to do some back-and-forth. As for the reviews stuff ...…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, james_west, Blake Hutchins.

5/17/2001 Blake Hutchins: Hero Wars Forum?
Hey all, Just picked up Hero Wars and am riding a wave of excitement after dissecting the mechanics. Issaries Press is an indie outfit, and as far as I can…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff.

5/17/2001 Zak Arntson: Login not working
Whenever I click on the Login, and enter teh correct information, I get the regular forum screen but the "user not logged in" appears. I went and tested it a…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav, GreatWolf, Clay, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/15/2001 Paul Czege: I want my post back :(
Hey Clinton, Raven wrote this in a thread outside of "Site Discussion": I just wrote a particularly lengthy post on the issue and it was destroyed because it…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Playtesting Forum
Could be get a Playtesting forum for people to use? It'd be especially nice if individual threads could be coded to only allow certain members to read them (open vs.…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

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8/17/2001 Emily Dresner: Uh... Hi!
Hi all-- I'm pretty sure a good half of the people here know who I am. In the last three years, I've contributed to about a dozen different books (another…
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Participants: Emily Dresner, Mytholder, Ron Edwards, Dav, GraveyardGreg.

8/17/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: State of the Union
I thought I'd update everyone on the general health and future of the Forge. Immense growth: The Forge has become very, very visible here lately, partially, I think, because of…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Laura Bishop, GraveyardGreg, John Wick, Ian O'Rourke, Theory of X.

8/24/2001 kwill: new post flagging
I've noticed that while new messages posted while I'm at a machine are marked red, new messages from session to session are not I assume that the system currently uses…
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Participants: kwill, Supplanter.

8/26/2001 Supplanter: Gamers Have Lives?
I notice that, week in and week out, things really quiet down here on the weekends. What's up with that? Note: As a married father, I have the best possible…
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Participants: Supplanter, peteramthor, Mytholder, Le Joueur, Ian O'Rourke, Jason L Blair, unodiablo, Tor Erickson.

9/3/2001 Adam: History of the Forge Link?
Hello, It appears that the link on http://www.indie-rpgs.com/main.html to the History of the Forge (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/history.html) is incorrect - or, more likely, that history.html is simply not present. . . Best,…
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Participants: Adam, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/8/2001 kwill: ia ia shub edwards
if it's a cult or club I want a damn badge (this is just a rough version :) http://light.mth.uct.ac.za/david/gaming/cult-of-ron.png _________________ ttfn,   d@vid   http://www.kwill.org/ …
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Participants: kwill, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, jburneko, greyorm.

9/10/2001 GB Steve: Screwy Dates
I was looking at the Beeg Horseshoe thread in the GNS forum and the dates are all wrong. Also I just posted to Indie Game Design and my message is…
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Participants: GB Steve.

9/11/2001 GB Steve: New Dying Earth Stuff
I'm not sure where I should post this, if at all but I thought, given the high concentration of Dying Earth fans here, that I should tell you that the…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

9/12/2001 Ron Edwards: Emily Dresner article series begins!
Hi everybody, All welcome Emily's contribution to the articles at the Forge, the first in a series about the nuts & bolts of getting a book into existence. Discuss it…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Adam, Epoch, Emily Dresner.

9/12/2001 Epoch: Emily's Article
Emily's "Crunchy Bits" title tag calls this site "Hephaestus' Forge." You're trying to excise that, right?
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Participants: Epoch, ephealy, Emily Dresner, pacific_steve.

9/18/2001 kwill: FAQ: a few questions
as promised, at last, a bunch of questions... FAQs generally seem to serve two purposes -) outline the ideas behind a site/newsgroup/program/whatever -) genuinely answer frequently asked questions some of…
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Participants: kwill, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2001 Warpspawn: How do you get your own forum?
Hi, My website is warpspawn games: http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/ Check it out. I think its worthy of a forum. I would like to move my "Be-Seen" message board traffic to this format.…
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Participants: Warpspawn, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, James V. West.

10/3/2001 Valamir: Log In not working?
is the log in feature not working? Not only is it not recognizing me when I arrive, but entering my name and password in the Log In link appears to…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Epoch.

10/12/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: New Forum - Random Order Creations
In case you're wondering what happened to all those Pool discussions, I've moved them all to a new forum for James West's Random Order Creations. I did leave actual play…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

10/15/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: The Forge R2
Well - I've been playing around with some new code, and am thinking about revising The Forge again. The author-driven game library hasn't really worked out because of bad code…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt, hardcoremoose, greyorm, Laurel, Paul Czege, Valamir, Zak Arntson, kwill, Galfraxas, Don Lag.

10/19/2001 Matt Gwinn: Maybe I'm just stupid
But how do you quote someone in the forum?
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/21/2001 Paul Czege: breaking private messages across multiple pages
Hey Clinton, My page of private messages is becoming a slow load. I do clean them out, but there are some I don't want to get rid of. Is there…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/26/2001 Petter Sandelin: index in essay?
Dropped by the other day to read the last two chapters of the new essay, that I hadn't had time to read and found that it's kind of irritating to…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2001 Djt'Heutii: Are there Forum Problems or is it me?
Hi. I recently registered, I hope this is where this Goes :smile: I'm having a problem accessing the forums. I'll read one or two discussions and then I can't access…
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Participants: Djt'Heutii, Ian O'Rourke, 333Chronzon, Laurel, kwill.

11/3/2001 Paul Czege: How did you discover The Forge?
Hey everyone, There've been a lot of new people here the past couple of months, and I'm getting really curious how people are discovering the site. How did you discover…
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Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, JGCook, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Bret, Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, unodiablo, mahoux, Mike Holmes, Time, Joe Murphy (Broin), razgon, Bankuei, GMSkarka, Jack Spencer Jr, xiombarg, Ranko, Julian Kelsey, James V. West, J B Bell, Philippe Tromeur, Blake Hutchins, Skippy, Daredevil, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Chris Passeno, Paganini.

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