What is the best term for a poster at the Forge?

Hey,

I liked Luke Crane's impromptu "Forgie." Hell of a lot better than "Forger," that's for sure.

Best,
Ron

I'm still pushing for "Forgeroo."

G'dyap, pardners! Let's roll them dice & play them cards! Yeehaw!

C'mon. It's a Forgite. The evolution tree goes something like this:

Trilobite --> Troglodyte --> Forgite

Um... sorry

I'm afraid my wife has taken to referring to you all (not that she's ever read the board -- she doesn't game) as "Forgereenies." But she doesn't really mean any harm by it. She just likes to make it rhyme with "weenies."

I'm with Forgeite, though as you can see, I spell it a bit differently.

Anonymous wrote: I'm with Forgeite, though as you can see, I spell it a bit differently.

Forgeoisie

talysman wrote: Forgeoisie

Thats got just the right feel
A fun cross of 'nose-in-the-air' and 'tongue-in-cheek'...with a sophisticated spelling.

:)

Plus it made me laugh!

I think I prefer Forgeite, as it easily can relate to something unique -- never heard of a Forgeite before.

Forger is cool, and has some great denotation/connotation to go with it... i.e. someone who forges (random metal ore into slicing blades of steel!) at a forge... whoa!

But perhaps we should deem some other quasi-intellectual nickname such as Forgeoisie (sp?). I am not too keen on this one though...

Possibilities...

Forgen/Forgeon (i.e. Briton)
Forgeist
Forgette
Forgetteer

Anyway, that's all for now....

I'm rather partial to the Forgentsia to refer to a group.

I like "Forgetteer"--"Okay! Time for the Forgetteer role call!"

"Forgeling" sounds good to me.

Or going back to when it was the Haephestus's Forge (or however the diety's name was being spelled), I suggest: "Fester."

I've pretty consistently used "Forgites." But I've been thinking of switching to "Forgistas."

Paul

The Japanese Salaryman inside me says:

"Forujaa!"

Valamir wrote: I'm rather partial to the Forgentsia to refer to a group.

At this point, I would like to publically apologize for using the term "forgista" on RPG.net. It stuck for a week or so.

How a about the Forge Atristic / Recreational Talent Seekers? Are you one of the... hang on....

Forge United Church of Knowledge Seekers?

I'll go take my medication now...

I always call us Forge Monkeys.

-Vincent

Forgeoisie made me larf. Either that or the Forgensia.

I have, and forever will, refer to "us" as Forgers. It makes me positively gleeful.

Tough shit, Ron.

Ken Hite has had some good ones. I think I like Elves best. Like we're forging in a workshop at the north pole.

Forgistas is pretty good, Paul. Keeps us sounding rebellious.

Mike

I'm surprised that no one has posted "Forger-ees" yet ...

I thought I'd see if there was any cool underworld slang for "forger" - I'm afraid the best I found was the Victorian "Screever" - calling Forge-ites Screevers doesn't quite work for me. But in my searching, I found a very interesting charcater by the name Monroe Edwards. I realize it's not an uncommon name, but I'm imagining him as Ron's great-great-grand uncle or something anyway:

"Monroe Edwards is a real person, and the events of his life are more or less accurately documented. Born in 1803 or 1808, depending on the narrative one chooses to follow, he led an eventful life as forger, swindler, and slave trader. The accounts bristle with tales of schemes, treacheries, and escapes. In 1840, for example, he went to London and attempted, with forged letters, to gain access to Lewis Cass, then the American ambassador, and such luminaries as the Duke of Wellington, Lord Palmerston, and Sir Robert Peel. Unsuccessful in this project, he returned to America in 1841 and launched upon a grand scheme of fraud and forgery, using spurious letters of credit to defraud a number of banks of large sums, perhaps as much as fifty thousand dollars in all. But his plan was too complicated and he was arrested and brought to New York to stand trial in June 1842. At the time of his trial, and subsequently, a number of pamphlets appeared, outlining the case and purporting to give details of his life history.

"Found guilty, Edwards was given a sentence of ten years in the state prison at Sing Sing. He attempted to take his life. Then, as audacious as ever, he planned an escape which would involve his apparent drowning. In 1846 he worked out an imaginative escape plan, undertaking all its details himself, for it depended upon his old skills of forgery and fraud. He wrote letters with fictitious signatures, the first to a Charles Barnes, a subcontractor in the fire department of the prison. Barnes was asked to mail an enclosed letter, addressed to Daniel Webster. The letter to Webster requested a legal opinion on some matter, but, more importantly for Edwards, asked that Webster mail an enclosed letter to President James K. Polk. As the story continues,

The letter to the president purported to come from an intimate
acquaintance of Monroe Edwards, who had powerful reasons for
believing that the gentleman was entirely innocent of the charges for
which he was then suffering; and it desired respectfully to know from
the President, if the fact of that person's innocence should be manifest,
whether he would not address a letter, over his own signature, to the
Governor of the State of New York, requesting him to grant the
unfortunate and injured man a pardon.

"Quite by accident, the scheme was discovered. According to the narrative, Edwards now became "subject to delirium" and died in the prison in 1847."

Gordon

forge, forger, forgerino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

Forgeratos!

Gee.
I usually think, "those geeks I talk geek stuff with." :)

orbsmatt wrote: Forgeratos!

Gamesmith is the best. But don't forget to put on your snootie hat and pronounce it "Four-szhay".

<snort!>

Alex! Dude! You made it come out of my nose.

Steve.

I'd like to offer to this little tongue-in-cheek lexicon the following terms:

Forgekin: A minor rank of annoying, impassioned, game-design-obsessed dork who reads The Forge and quotes the ideas found there to anyone and everyone he or she shares a gaming table with.

Forgespawn: A former Forgekin who has transformed their outlook from blind zealotry to a benign sense of superiority now that they actually understand some of the concepts they've been blathering about. At Forgespawn status a Forgekin's keyboard becomes enabled so that they are able to actually post instead of just lurking.

Forgelord: The upper echelon of the Forge foodchain, Forgelords are former Forgespawn who have actually finished a game and published it in some form. As such, they are held in awe by the Forgespawn and Forgekin. Forgelords possess the ability to consume lurkers and guests and transform their fading lifeforce into Really Good Ideas(tm). This explains the phenomenon of registered users who never make it to poster status. These Really Good Ideas(tm) are then consumed greedily by the Forgekin and Forgespawn, who proclaim them to be "forgealicious"!

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I could go on, but I think I've taken this WAY too far already. :)

Steve Samson wrote:
Forgekin: A minor rank of annoying, impassioned, game-design-obsessed dork who reads The Forge and quotes the ideas found there to anyone and everyone he or she shares a gaming table with.

Okay, we've had Elves and Forgelings.

How about another smelty kind of character?

DWARVES!!!!!!

MUHAHAHAHA

Hiding in their indie caverns spread throughout the known world, the Dwarves seek not to conquer the land of man, but to overwhelm men's minds by the power of their creations of stone and metal that speak to the mysteries of Creation and the glories of the world.

Then again, "dwarves" could refer to people with stunted-growth ideas that can't measure up to the rigors of "real" games like D20... lol

j/k

Um, I think the problem with "dwarves" is that they have gold. And we don't. Mostly. And they really, really want gold. And we don't. Mostly. Right guys? Right? Hello? <chirping of crickets offstage>