The forge was an influential rpg forum run by a weirdo pervert named Ron Edwards. He was a pretentious twat who said that vampire the masquarade caused brain damage.
https://lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/marginalia/3777
Originally it was started in 1999 as Hephaestus's forge.
https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ppmt00/tabletop_rpgs_the_fall_of_the_forge_how_a/
They discussed the design and making of tabletop rpgs and developed the gns theory or big model theory .
It's outlined here
https://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/system_does_matter.html
Forgeworld produced some great games like Apocalypse world and Dogs in the Vineyard which is Mormons fighting 
demons who want to molest children
https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/binarydoubts/dogs-in-the-vineyard/
https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/professorprof/dogs-in-the-vineyard/
but also bullshit like Bliss Stage which was made for demons who want to molest children
https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/purplexvi/bliss-stage/
https://systemmasterypodcast.com/2019/04/08/bliss-stage-system-mastery-145/
It was essentially Neon Genesis Evangelion but not the Neon Genesis Evangelion of the anime or manga adaptions but the Neon Genesis Evangelion of the pornographic doujins found at every Japanese con.
https://old.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/353js6/bliss_stage/
That is not a link for those. Look up your own "Shinji chad " or "Shinji cuck" porn ya sick frick.
The Forge defined all players as wanting one of three things: narrativist, which wanted story, simulationist, who wanted realism, and gamist, who wanted to have fun and play the game. They hated the latter two and worshipped narrativism as the one true god.
Certain g*mers compared it to an evil cancer or a cult
https://verbus.livejournal.com/1649.html
The Forge was controversial even when it was still going
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads%2Ftell-me-about-the-forge.355613%2F
Here is the Forge in all its glory
https://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/20/
Osr or "old school roleplaying" is another weird rpf cult that is either diametrically opposed or partially overlapping with the Forge
https://livingmythrpg.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/rpg-theory-living-myth-vs-forge-theory/
Ron Edwards compared gms running railroady games to child abuse.
https://www.indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=18707.0
The forge closed in 2010
https://stargazersworld.com/2010/11/03/the-end-of-the-forge/
Reaction was mixed
https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-is-the-forge.159851/
Ron Edwards claimed it had fulfilled its purpose.
https://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=25257.msg244501#msg244501
He was coping
Many fans and detractors still exist and still hate it
https://www.wizardthieffighter.com/2019/a-bad-turn-of-words-fantasy-heartbreaker/
https://refereeingandreflection.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/remembering-the-forge/
My own thoughts on their theory is that it's far too narrow. Every player has his own agenda that might include aspects of all three and other motives. It's a radical simplification of a hopelessly complicated muddle. Most of the forge alumni agree.
Also while Ron Edwards is an butt he's not a male feminist and didn't make a game for male feminists about playing a male feminist . Unlike Black Hat Matt Mcfarland and Beast the primordial. How can you hate Ron Edwards or Byron Hall, the author of fatal the worst rpg ever made,
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/315746/fatal-and-kiwifarms-a-match-made
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/169760/review-of-fatal-rpgnet-rpg-game
when neither of them are actual male feminists?
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/314992/beast-the-primordial-good-lord-above
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/273950/beast-the-primordial-is-the-game
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/272482/reddit-dive-into-beast-the-primordial
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/271029/what-did-people-actually-want-from
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/223552/beast-the-primordial-is-a-bad
https://rdrama.net/post/109832/fresh-beast-the-primordial-on-tg
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/200508/beast-the-primordial-or-trans-lives
https://rdrama.net/post/32502/4chan-daicusses-beast-the-primordial-the
The best link in this post is these two:
https://rdrama.net/post/23466/beast-the-primordial-is-terrible-or
https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/255495/fatal-friends-review-btp-books-whitewolfrpg
Live by social justice die by social justice
A forge alumni learned this lesson far too late.
Let that be a lesson to you all: be a chud.
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