thread: 2008-06-04 : I am culled
On 2008-06-04, Moreno R. wrote:
Questions:
1) what is the difference between "antiquated Anyway" and the rest?
2) What happened to the missing entries?
Interesting bits...well, #137 talk about some problems that now, after almost 4 years, are even worse. The forum posts at the Forge are almost doubled, still no reference text (even if a pdf copy of Emily's article in the Solmukohta book would be a good start), and reading not only rpg.net but even story-games I get the impression that forge theory is even less known today (and a lot more misunderstood and ridiculed). The entire body of work at the forge is now casually dismissed as something "everybody know is bunk" by people who never read a word of it.
I live too far from the "scene" to be able to say if the "forge diaspora" was a failure or not. But reading the articles at the time, it's clear that it did fall very, very short of even the more cautious expectations. I read forum posts at the forge from 2005-2006 that talk about new blogs where the theory would be more reachable, with links, but these blogs now no longer exists, the articles disappeared forever. It's easier to find what people wrote in 2002 than what people wrote in 2006.
