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3/20/2003 Valamir: Paying for the Forge
The following thoughts have been stewing around to a greater or lesser degree for the past few months. Premise: 1) That the Forge is a truly unique location on the…
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Participants: Valamir, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Kester Pelagius, Marco, Jack Spencer Jr, Jonathan Walton, Christoffer Lernö, M. J. Young, Le Joueur, xiombarg, Paganini, Jason L Blair, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, Brian Leybourne.

3/16/2003 Mark Johnson: Indie-Rpgs Chat Room
Indie-rpg chat function possibilities: to talk without moderation, or concern of moderation to discuss one's personal life, and how it intersects with one's game creation to talk socially, building bonds…
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Participants: Mark Johnson, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, iago.

3/14/2003 xechnao: 2 PM email notifications but only 1 message.
Yes, that's right. Today I ' ve got in my email inbox 2 "PM has arrived" notifications from the forge. But only one PM was in my inbox folder over…
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Participants: xechnao, Walt Freitag.

3/13/2003 stingray20166: Current link for Swashbuckler?
OK, I know the review was done in 1999 -- I'm a little late to the party! Anyway, the link for Swashbuckler is 404 and darn it, I'd like a…
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Participants: stingray20166.

3/12/2003 Ron Edwards: Moderation issue - open discussion
Hello, Today, I moderated a thread in the Indie Design forum, EU States: Writers Block, which has turned into a difficult moderation problem. I don't plan to lock the thread.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Paganini, iago, lumpley, clehrich, Bankuei, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer, Piratecat, Clay, Tar Markvar, Mytholder, Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, cruciel, Marco, M. J. Young.

3/12/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: weird bug?
I am currently experiencing a weird bug. I'm not sure how to describe it, so I'll have to do a play by play. I come to the site, and see…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, iago.

3/10/2003 clehrich: Bug or Feature?
One odd thing seems to be happening since the Forge web revision. At least for me, when I close the browser and go do something else for a bit, every…
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Participants: clehrich, ThreeGee, Le Joueur, M. J. Young, JMendes, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/3/2003 Matt Gwinn: Who Uses the Forge the most?
[b]The Forge[/b] has continues to grow by leaps and bounds over the past year, but I haven't really noticed a huge swell in posts. As of this post, we have…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mark Johnson, Trevis Martin, Jack Spencer Jr, Jürgen Mayer, dalek_of_god, Valamir, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Piratecat, Pyske, Psycho42, Jeph.

2/25/2003 greyorm: PM Stuff & Errors
A question about the private message functions: I have two posts sitting in my Outbox right now, though I clicked "Send" on both of them. One is from much earlier…
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Participants: greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

2/24/2003 Mike Holmes: The Forge's Reputation on the Line
So over on RPG.Net there's this monumental discussion about how the Origins Award is messed up that turned into a war about the quality of HackMaster. Anyhow, if you look…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Dave Panchyk, C. Edwards, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, clehrich, Walt Freitag, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Kuma, Jeffrey Miller.

2/20/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: More Invalid Sessions
I just got an Invalid Session message trying to email someone. Ask if you need more details.
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Clinton R. Nixon, GMSkarka.

2/20/2003 JMendes: Session Expiration
Hey, :) Is it just me or are sessions expiring very quickly all of a sudden? Cheers, J.
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Participants: JMendes.

2/15/2003 ghoest: indigames.com
Hello, I've just found this website today... I'm the administrator of www.indigames.com and I am building a community based on independent game development and although in the end, i hop…
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Participants: ghoest, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

2/9/2003 Jonathan Walton: New Forge Apparel
Hey Clinton, As much as I like the original designs, is it going to be possible to get Forge gear with the new logo on it? I like the mug…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

2/9/2003 Jason L Blair: Godlike Review Width
I'm at 1024x768 on my laptop and I have to horizontal-scroll another quarter screen to read the Godlike review. In my opinion, this is not cool. It seems to be…
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Participants: Jason L Blair.

2/7/2003 Andy Kitkowski: d20 D&D supplements: Are they "Indie supplements&am
Kind of a weird question. I've hit a snag and need some quick feedback. A game is Indie if it's self-produced by someone who owns all the rights to the…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Matt Snyder, clehrich, Matt Gwinn, Valamir, ThreeGee, Clinton R. Nixon, Dave Panchyk, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/7/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Mark all topics read
I have noticed that topic marked read do not stay read for some reason. I cruise the forum, read and marking topics read. Then when all are read, I'll go…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

2/6/2003 Valamir: Event Planning Forum
With all the discussions going on about Gen Con and later they'll be some about Demon Con and various different projects and what not...I had a thought that having a…
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Participants: Valamir, xiombarg.

2/6/2003 talysman: Iron Game Chef?
with all this talk about Simulationist games, I've been wondering: is Mike Holmes about to run an Iron Chef Simulationist competition? it's been almost four months since the last one...…
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Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, Shreyas Sampat, Dave Panchyk.

2/6/2003 Brian Leybourne: Invalid Session?
Ever since the upgrade (well, it seems that they coincide, anyway), I seem to occasionally get an "invalid session" error when posting a message. It doesn't happen all the time,…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Valamir, greyorm, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr.

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3/27/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Forge birthday
It's exactly 7 days until the Forge is 2 years old. (Note: The Forge is older than that. It's 7 days until the forum, and the renaming of the site…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Adam, Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, szilard, Jonathan Walton.

3/31/2003 Brian Leybourne: Forge Software capabilities?
Is there any way to set up my account (or the Forge itself) so that every time I visit a thread, it resets the "new since last login" for that…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Clinton R. Nixon, Stuart DJ Purdie.

4/1/2003 ethan_greer: Forge Bookshelf
Hi there, site admins. Why isn't there a link to the Forge Bookshelf from the Forge? It's my feeling there should be. Just a thought... P.S. If it does exist…
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Participants: ethan_greer.

4/1/2003 Ziggy: 1001.indie-rpgs.com
-none of the links are working. Just a note, Ziggy
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Participants: Ziggy, Jonathan Walton.

4/1/2003 szilard: User profiles
I don't know how easy (or desireable) this would be, but would it be possible to expand the user profiles to include "Games Designed" and/or "Current Projects" blurbs? Would this…
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Participants: szilard, Jack Spencer Jr, Thomas Tamblyn.

4/2/2003 Ron Edwards: SJG and independence (reply to Jason Kottler)
Hello, In the thread Applying modifiers, Jason Kottler asked this question, which belongs in this forum. Completely off topic: If the definition of indie around here is "Creator Owned", does…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/4/2003 M. J. Young: Search for Game Designers who are Christian
O.K., this isn't quite right for any forum, but I need to ask The Forge community, so it's going to go here. Maybe it would fit better in Connections, but…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton.

4/5/2003 Thomas Tamblyn: Deleting outwar link threads
I know its not forge policy to delete threads, but the outwar ones that have started to pop up are spam plain and simple and knock legitimate threads off the…
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Participants: Thomas Tamblyn, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, szilard, Marco, M. J. Young.

4/6/2003 blaze_axis: IRAQ WAR
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=468091
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Participants: blaze_axis, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/6/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Automatic Login
Ever since the Birthday Forum opened, clicking the "log me in automatically whenever I visit" checkbox has had no effect for me; it won't log me in automatically like it…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Rob MacDougall.

4/7/2003 Andy Kitkowski: What does it take for a designer to get a Forge forum?
I was just curious as to what it takes. Is there a certain amount that you've had to produce, or do you have to be hosted on the Forge? Are…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

4/7/2003 Ron Edwards: New reviews!
The reviews for Dread, Fvlminata, and Legends of Alyria are available. Click on "Reviews" at the top of the page if you wanna read them. Coming up when I finish…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/9/2003 Valamir: Question on how feature works.
Had a question about the "Mark all topics as read" feature. Does this feature mark all topics that have been posted to up to the second you hit the feature…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, ethan_greer.

4/11/2003 Blake Hutchins: FATAL Review on RPG.net
Not sure where to post this link, but it's a damn funny review, though the subject matter's mere existence probably soils us all as gamers, and says something about an…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Thomas Tamblyn, Ron Edwards, Evan Waters.

4/12/2003 Brian Leybourne: Community forum request
Hey Ron, I know this has been discussed (and shot down) before, but since it's reared its head again I'll mention it again (out of sight out of mind and…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Thomas Tamblyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Paganini, Fabrice G., szilard, M. J. Young, cruciel, Jonathan Walton, Le Joueur, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

4/13/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Request for a Indie Design sticky
There are a few unspoken (well occasionally written down) rules on how to make a good posting on the Forge in general and Indie Game Design in particular. We went…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, ethan_greer, Thomas Tamblyn, Mark Johnson, Clinton R. Nixon, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/14/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Shift in Indie Game Design?
Mark wrote this in the "Request for a Indie Design sticky"-thread: There seems to be a gradual shift in the Indie Design forum: 1) The Intended Usage: to…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, SrGrvsaLot, Jack Spencer Jr, szilard, Valamir, Kester Pelagius, Paul Czege, C. Edwards, Sidhain, Jonathan Walton, Andy Kitkowski, cruciel, Le Joueur, ethan_greer, greyorm, M. J. Young, Jake Norwood, Mark Johnson, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Thomas Tamblyn, xiombarg, Brian Leybourne, clehrich, Blake Hutchins, RobMuadib.

4/16/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Another Cosmetic Forum Suggestion
Instead of 10 posts per page, how about 15? Less pages to deal with. Just a thought. -Andy
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

4/16/2003 anonymouse: Spotty HTML code?
Specifically, I occasionally want to use a horizontal line to mark off sections in a post, but the simple and standard: <hr> ..does not seem to work. The little 'Options'…
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/16/2003 Ron Edwards: My comments regarding the Indie Design forum
I thought people might be interested. I'll start with the Forge Moderator Principle #1: when people speak up with great passion about an issue, and when the actual recommendations are…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, greyorm, Valamir, Jack Spencer Jr, Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon.

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