The Winter of the Forge looms near
Jim D.:
I'm glad to see we're still keeping Dev and AP -- those are the most useful places for my purposes.
Incidentally, having done a modicum of archive reading, I can safely say you guys did some amazing work, and I'm glad to have found this resource; it opened up my eyes to the things that RPGs can do, and the things major RPGs don't. I personally have about five times more fun gaming now than I ever did before.
Thank you, Vince, Ron, and everyone who fought the good fight to make this happen.
Teataine:
I just wanted to say that I applaud this decision. (particularly the new Development merger)
Ron Edwards:
Thanks for the kind words.
Jonathan, the current Game Chef Endeavor is certainly going to stay up through its whole course. That's exactly the sort of thing I hope to see running throughout the final phase, one or two at a time.
My current thinking on the Development forum is that the Forge will no longer be a place for initial musings on game designs. Playtested or not, the project in question should be a project with some kind of real material basis - a website, a document, anything like that. The whole point is to be more of a literal forge, a workshop where things are being made. I expect traffic to drop somewhat but I hope the existing traffic will be very productive.
Best, Ron
Moreno R.:
I just returned from 5 days at the Lucca Comics and RPGs fair, and people called me saying "the Forse is closing"
Well, the eventual "coming of the winter" is public knowledge from something like 2005, so my initial reaction was "already? It's too soon!" (but with the tone of voice one usually use for "the sky is falling! The sky is falling!")
Reading this thread I realize that the reports of the Forge death have been greatly exaggerated, and I like many of these changes (putting the actual play forum to the top again, for example). But at the same time, I am worried about any change that would give the impression to people that the Forge is not THE place to talk about actual play and design anymore. Not because of forum rivalry or something stupid like that, but because.. well, there is still not any other forum that could take the Forge's place on that aspect (not even the one I am moderator of, I have no illusion about that). And after 5 years from the Forge Diaspora, this is not improving (rather the other way around)
Jonathan Walton:
That sounds great, Ron. Just like in Mouse Guard, it seems like the winter phase is going to be pretty awesome!
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