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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.

10/12/2001 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.

10/3/2001 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.

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.

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.

9/12/2001 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.

9/12/2001 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.

9/11/2001 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.

9/10/2001 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.

9/8/2001 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.

9/3/2001 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.

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.

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.

8/17/2001 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.

8/17/2001 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.

8/16/2001 kwill: pagan publishing forum
according to the website "our creators own what they create" which fits the indie definition that the forge supports -- could you set up a pagan publishing forum at some…
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Participants: kwill, Mytholder, Clinton R. Nixon.

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.

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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.

11/5/2001 lumpley: Game Library Probs
Heya. The Game Library says that my email isn't in its database. I can't update my stuff to point to my new website and say that now the link to…
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Participants: lumpley, kwill, Bret.

11/6/2001 Ron Edwards: New review is up
Hi everyone, The Little Fears review, by me, is posted! Discuss it in the Review Discussion forum. Buy the game. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, unodiablo.

11/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Forums and thread organization.
It seems to me that there's a problem with the forums and the threads. The way the software works, we're supposed to keep the same conversation in the same thread.…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

11/15/2001 Nathan: Quarter Page Ad
I think indie-rpgs needs either a nice fat publish quality banner or a quarter page ad that we can include in our PDFs. Obviously, the value of this site may…
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Participants: Nathan, Ron Edwards.

11/15/2001 Laurel: Best of Threads?
Ron was giving Nathan some good thread examples in a post and it got me thinking... one of the most useful things for newcomers and even oldcomers with limited memory…
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Participants: Laurel, Bankuei, kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/4/2001 Bret: Article MIA
Clinton R. Nixon's "Publishing Your Web-Based Indie Game for Under $100" article gives me a 404 when I click on it, which is a bummer because it sounds like a…
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Participants: Bret, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/5/2001 Bret: Crunchy Bits
Are we going to see any more crunchy bits articles anytime soon? They're nifty. :smile: Peace, Bret
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Participants: Bret.

12/5/2001 Bret: The Essential RPG List
Hey folks. I'm trying to compile a list somewhat along the lines of an "Essential RPG Library," containing all the RPGs that someone either interested in the RPG industry or…
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Participants: Bret, mahoux, Marco, Time, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Balbinus, John Wick.

12/6/2001 Bret: Reviews
Question: Can we submit reviews? Peace, Bret
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Participants: Bret, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, razgon.

12/7/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Disapearing thread?
Hey - I *swear* I had a post in this forum about the "broken" History of the Forge link on the main page . . . and it's gone. The…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/10/2001 jburneko: New Forum In Order
Hello All, This is just a thought that occured to me. We have the GNS forum for discussing the GNS model directly. Then we have the RPG Theory forum which…
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Participants: jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2001 Balbinus: Typo of the month
Hi there, Just noticed a great typo (or is it?) in the game library descriptions section. Apparently, Space Ninja Cybercrisis is about: Manga action comedy demons aliens amazing groinal powers…
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Participants: Balbinus, razgon.

12/13/2001 Petter Sandelin: The trendy people
I guess this is the fourm for a topic with no forum..(couldn't there be one wich discusses X + other general issues?) It was a couple of years ago since…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, contracycle, joshua neff, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins.

12/19/2001 Mike Holmes: I saw it...
This might not be the appropriate site to comment on a movie. But having seen it I must say that I am truely inspired and feel the need to just…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/26/2001 Le Joueur: Pagination
This is kind of a rare thing, but a few regulars on the Forge have so many posts to their names, when you go to their profile and click on…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

12/27/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: 100 new messages by Jan. 1
Ok, people - I know we can do this. If we post 100 (well, 99 now) messages by the new year, we'll have 10,000. I guess there's nothing particularly special…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

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