Recorded at Metatopia 2017
Presented by Bill White, Brennan Taylor, Lisa Padol, Evan Torner, and more.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Forge (But Were Afraid To Ask). The Forge (www.indie-rpgs.com) was an online discussion site for indie TRPG design, publication, and play that was active from 2001 to 2012. Across tens of thousands of discussion threads, Forge participants hashed out new ways of understanding the dynamics of tabletop RPG play, and developed a new conceptual language for talking about game design, as part of a larger project of promulgating the "indie RPG" message that anyone can design and publish the game they want. This larger mission largely accomplished by 2010, according to its founders, the Forge closed its forums in 2012. But the ideas it offered still have value, and so five years after the closing of the Forge we look back and assess its insights, its accomplishments, and its imbroglios. Presented by Bill White, game designer and game studies scholar currently working on a book about the Forge, along with several regular posters from that era
Episode 371: Adapting Someone Else's Sandbox
Episode 370: Ten Things Wrong With Your Game
Episode 369: Indie Publishing for the Long Haul
Episode 368: Printing Your RPG
Episode 367: Staying In
Episode 366: Teaching How to GM
Episode 365: Narrative Voice in RPGs
Episode 364: Why you Should Join the IGDN
Episode 363: Budgeting for Art
Episode 362: How to Work with Artists
Episode 361: Crowdfunding in 2023
Episode 360: How to Run a Great Playtest
Episode 359: How to be a Great Playtester
Episode 358: Ethical AI Usage?
Episode 357: Spinning Relationship Webs
Episode 356: Challenges and Triumphs of Community-Based Game Publishing
Episode 355: Math Essentials for Designers
Episode 354: Spirituality Check: Spiritual Growth, Exploration and Healing Through RPGs
Episode 353: Bad Design Habits We Love
Episode 352: Problematic and Taboo Topics
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