The Winter of the Forge looms near
Ron Edwards:
Hiya,
I should clarify that I don't claim that discussions here are concluded or their conclusions have been established beyond critique. With any luck my planned (and perhaps to be modified) means of summarizing them can serve as a decent foundation for later discussions without the current high bar to entry. It may help to know that none of the essays at the site were written for newcomers, but rather as "state of the art" pieces for fellow participants in the discussions.
Anyway, if you want to see some beginning attempts at summarizing interesting issues/threads discussed here, see the stickies in the Archived forums GNS Discussion and RPG Theory. There are some pretty good readings, I hope.
Best, Ron
Emily Care:
Thanks for the continuing clear communication, and stewardship of the community, Ron. I hope these changes work well for you and Vincent, and that if anything is needed that you won't hesitate to ask for help.
Also, agreement and congratulations on seeing the change happen! My gratitude is endless, and my hat's off to all the Forge is, was and will be.
Best,
Emily
Paiku:
Disbelief! Dismay! Reading past the Subject line. Understanding. Hope. Tentative agreement with the plan.
I too like the idea of a wiki project. There's a fortune of insights in this thing, some of which I've dug out and some I have yet to stumble across. Even of those I've read, it would be nice to have a well-structured reference document/site. I have a terrible memory, and like to re-read things.
Acceptance. Enthusiasm.
What about the social aspect? "Where" are Forge types going to chat and hang out after the planned transformation?
-John
M. J. Young:
Baxil--
There are probably many summaries of much of the theory, and I'm not certain how basic you want to be, but there has been a certain amount of praise for my Theory 101 series at Places to Go, People to Be, which attempted to capture some of the basics and make sense of them. (The series has also been translated into French and will be published in a French RPG magazine shortly--but I'm afraid I don't recall the name so I can't point you to it there, if French even helps.)
The three articles are (in the original English versions):System and the Shared Imagined Space[/url] covering the Lumpley Principle, credibility and authority, stance.The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast covering referee styles.Creative Agenda wrapping up with explanations of GNS along with some links to other articles (not all of which are probably still good, given the nature of the Internet).
Ron, my concern is wondering what happens after Winter. Between the forums and the articles, there is a great deal here worth preserving. It sounds like the Wiki format is going to link to the existing threads, and thus that everything will be archived; since it also sounds like the forum will be closed, it must be the expectation that all posting will be disabled at some point (not merely that you will have asked everyone to stop posting). That seems fine to me as a solution, but I would be concerned if it were to be threatened with erasure or even simply removal from the public view.
One alternative is, of course, to determine whether any other RPG site would be interested in "housing" the material as a reference resource. I'm not sure of the feasibility of that, but it's not my area.
In any case, you continue to have my respect for all you've done here (and Clinton and Vincent). Thank you for your contributions.
--M. J. Young
M. J. Young:
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What about the social aspect?
John, there is still a forum at Gaming Outpost. I'm a bit embarrassed at how Multiverser-oriented it has become, but that's only because we're the only people who haven't emigrated. Several posters are into game and scenario design, and all are into conversation. (In fact, two threads were launched recently, one for Random Chat about all kind of things, and the other a Peanut Gallery for people to make comments about events in the game threads they're following without disrupting the game, so socializing is certainly part of the forum.) It's also still small enough that we all know each other, but big enough that there's a lot of interaction, and we get new people often enough.
--M. J. Young
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