The Games Diner forums will mainly support collaboration on projects, as well as discuss Games Diner content that doesn't fit into other Internet forums. If you'd like to bring some other game topic to the forums, I'll probably welcome it heartily.

I'm using a simple forums module for Drupal; I don't know whether it's sufficient for real work, or whether something fancier is needed.

It appears to work like this:

STRUCTURE

The big categories on the Forum page – Games Diner, GURPS, etc. – are containers. These are just groupings of related forums, and don't mean much.

Inside those are actual forums, like "Using the forums". A single forum can contain any number of ongoing discussions under the forum's general theme.

Click to enter a forum, and you'll see the topics inside that forum. Each topic is an ongoing discussion, commonly called a thread. 

Click a topic to see the posts inside. Each topic can have as many posts as people want to contribute. 

POSTING TO A FORUM TOPIC

The first post inside a topic is the one that sets up the topic and its... well, topic. To reply to that first post, use "add a comment", just as if you were commenting on a blog post, an article, or other content. 

Additional posters can choose to comment on the first post in the same way, or can choose to reply to other comments. Click on a comment's "reply" link to address that comment specifically.

POLICIES

With apologies to all, I've had to make creation of forum topics available only to registered users of the GURPS Diner. (The spammers were having too much fun.) You don't need to be a registered user to simply read and post to forums, though you will have to prove human status via a simple "captcha" shibboleth. (Thank you again, spammers.)

Please have mercy on ol' T Bone and this site's visitors. Flagrant flamers, trolls, obscenity-spewers, and other abusers will have their posts deleted. They may necessitate user registrations, too, with all the user approval and banning and what not that that entails. Let's try to avoid all that, and have fun!