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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.

4/13/2003 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.

4/12/2003 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.

4/11/2003 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.

4/9/2003 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.

4/7/2003 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.

4/7/2003 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.

4/6/2003 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.

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

4/5/2003 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.

4/4/2003 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.

4/2/2003 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.

4/1/2003 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.

4/1/2003 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 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.

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.

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.

3/22/2003 Thomas Tamblyn: Attaching images to posts
Is there any way to attach image files directly to a post? When I make a game I often do a couple of sketches to help cement the feel of…
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Participants: Thomas Tamblyn, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

4/17/2003 Kester Pelagius: Problem. . .
Greetings, Seems like lately whenever I log in and try to access the Independant Games Forum by the time I get there the board logs me out. Or seems to…
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Participants: Kester Pelagius, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/18/2003 clehrich: Minor (I think) tweak
When you click the "mark all topics read" button, you wait, then get the "topics marked" screen, then wait, then go to the forum you marked. This last seems silly:…
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Participants: clehrich.

4/20/2003 Thomas Tamblyn: Women at the forge
Something I've realised recently, is I don't think I've ever seen any female posters at the forge, now I know that the forge has no intirinsic gender bias, so why…
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Participants: Thomas Tamblyn, Jonathan Walton, clehrich, M. J. Young, jrs, Jack Spencer Jr, Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, greyorm, talysman, Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes, Andy Kitkowski, Emily Care, Meguey.

4/22/2003 rikiwarren: RSS syndication?
Is there currently any RSS syndication for these forums (allowing people to access the forums using usenet-like readers--or, more importantly for mobile users like myself, letting us quickly download the…
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Participants: rikiwarren, xiombarg, Andy Kitkowski.

4/24/2003 Matt Wilson: community and links
Hey all: That recent thread in this forum got me thinking, and I pitched an idea to Ron, and he seems pretty thumbs up about it. My perspective of the…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/30/2003 clehrich: Glossary
Given the various debates about definitions, plus the new definitions & terms that are cropping up lately, I'm wondering about a glossary. Specifically, I think it might be very useful…
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Participants: clehrich, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/30/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Favorites
If you look real close, you'll note that you can now click a link at the bottom of each topic (under the "watch this topic" link) where you can add…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, szilard, Jeffrey Miller, Brian Leybourne.

5/1/2003 Jeffrey Miller: DST, GMT, and the Forge
Ultra-minor question - I noticed that post-times are off by one hour, presumably because of posting time being calculated as GMT-8, GMT not caring one brass farthing for what us…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/5/2003 Brian Leybourne: Page Jumping?
Is there any way to jump to a specific page when you are searching through a long list of pages? If I'm doing a search, and the results are spread…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/10/2003 simon: Dumb-assed question, but I need to know!
Sorry about this, but how do you attach files to the messages you wish to send? I ask because I wnat to include a pdf with a few questions I…
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Participants: simon, Andy Kitkowski, Jack Spencer Jr, Whizper.

5/16/2003 Kester Pelagius: Should we start a Forge 'zine?
Greetings All, Just had a thought while PMing Mr. Holmes. What with all the wonderful talent here at the Forge- just look at the Iron Game Chef challenge: Tiki Gods,…
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Participants: Kester Pelagius, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Matt Snyder.

5/19/2003 M. J. Young: Where to post--or is it off topic?
I've got a bit of a problem, and I don't know whether anyone at the Forge can help at all. It seems that my latest work isn't getting reviews--the people…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

5/25/2003 ethan_greer: Iron Game Chef: Sim - A followup
I was thinking about putting this somewhere else, but in the end I decided since it's about our little game design contest it should go here in the game design…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag.

5/24/2003 Emmett: I am a Newbie
I started to think I'd done the wrong thing by joining the forge when I started reading this thread. It took an hour to get through, I could agree with…
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Participants: Emmett, Thomas Tamblyn, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes.

5/28/2003 Dave Panchyk: "Cooling off" period between joining and 1st post?
Let's say you joined the Forge today. Is it possible and/or desireable for the moderators to suspend your ability to post for about 24 hours? That way, you at least…
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Participants: Dave Panchyk, Fabrice G., Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Heather Manley, Mike Holmes, BenjaminRogers.

5/29/2003 brainwipe: women at the Forge (split)
As an aside, I am a moderator at the rpgwritersclub on the yahoo groups and there are very few women. Those that we do have are quite outspoken! A mirror,…
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Participants: brainwipe, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2003 cruciel: Where did delete post go?
Where did delete post run off to? Shouldn't you be able to delete during the time you can edit? I had major mouse slippage and ended up repeating myself in…
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Participants: cruciel, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

6/3/2003 Wormwood: Proof of Concept Game Design: Where to post?
That's most of the question. But to flesh it out nonetheless: Let's say I'm designing a game which is intended to be a hypotest of some theory, possibly GNS, possible…
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Participants: Wormwood, J B Bell, Jack Spencer Jr, Clinton R. Nixon.

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