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I must be one of the only, if not THE only long-time reader and participant at the Forge who only just now got around to reading the Diaspora thread: the announcement about the eventual shut-down of the Forge. Sure, I'd heard about it here and there, even did a quick search for the thread once and never found it, but I'd not read the whole "mission statement", as it were, until now.

Having done so, I don't agree with the reasons given by either Ron or Clinton for closing up and moving on, and I can basically guarantee that I will not be shipping off somewhere else to discuss theory, at least none of the places thus far mentioned as stepping-off points from the Forge. I might start browsing RPG.net more, but even that is doubtful because of RPG.net's (in my experience) sub-par moderation and general free-for-all laissez faire attitude towards (serious) discussion.

Chances are much higher, however, that I will instead be taking a more active role on the Dark Sun boards at wizards.com, because I've recently been offered and accepted a position with the official DS team (at athas.org). I also see a slight possibly of my contributing more to some of the high-activity mailing lists I am or have been a part of.

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