Big changes a'coming! Merging the D&D forums

[Sammael]

You could just click on the PF tag and see nothing else. Very simple

Yes. It's very simple. It's also very slow and requires people to actually tag their threads correctly (which is a huge presumption) or mods to continually police the threads and change tags as necessary (which requires lots of work).

How will the new tagging system work on Tapatalk, BTW?

 

[The_Universe]

Great idea. I don't post much around here anymore, but I like the move away from topic segregation!

 

[gamerprinter]

Most of the threads in each of the D&D forums have nothing to do with the individual edition, but are edition-agnostic discussions.

IMO, those are just lazy posters who do not take care to post non-edition questions in the General RPG forum, and stick with the fora of their particular flavor. The fact that I don't read most threads unless the thread title is specific enough to draw my interest, so I don't know that this point is true or not.

While I generally only post in the Pathfinder forum, when I do have non-PF specific question or point, I ALWAYS post in the General RPG forum and never in the PF forum exclusively.

This particular argument does not convince me of the right or wrongness of merging the forums. This point never applied to me or my posts, so I'm not sold on the idea at all.

I'm also thinking with the emphasis on D&D Next (look at the majority of the News Items to see this) by many posters, any Pathfinder threads are going to be buried (knocked into page 2) by the endless DDN threads, which again, I currently don't have to put up with since I never visit the 5e forum.

 

[blargney the second]

If a forum is busy, I'll happily look at the first two or three pages of threads. It's not even a little onerous. *shrug*

ps - will we be able to bookmark filters?

 

[the Jester]

I like this. Tentatively speaking, anyway.

Here's hoping that it helps bridge the differences between people who prefer different editions rather than riling them all up.

 

[Morrus]

I'm also thinking with the emphasis on D&D Next (look at the majority of the News Items to see this) by many posters, any Pathfinder threads are going to be buried (knocked into page 2) by the endless DDN threads, which again, I currently don't have to put up with since I never visit the 5e forum.

You don't have to guess or predict anything. You can look for yourself. Simply look at the sample forum link I posted.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

I am looking forward to how this works.

 

[Lanefan]

Looking at Morrus' sample page the one thing that becomes blindingly clear is the need for a "generic" D&D tag as opposed to a specific edition, for those threads that are either truly edition-neutral or that contain (or have broadened their focus to include) discussion pertinent to all editions even if the original focus was only on one.

Another example of where this would be needed is conversion questions and discussions - if I start a thread about converting something from 4e to 1e, for example, if it gets the 4e tag on it all the 1e types like me will probably ignore it; the reverse would be true if it gets the 1e tag. But the tag still needs to say "D&D" somewhere so it's obvious I'm not talking about GURPS or Warhammer or Magic: the Gathering.

Lanefan

 

[Papa-DRB]

Questions...

1. Can I tag a thread multiple times. Ie. I post new PCGen software and it affects DnD 3.0, 3.5, MSRD, Pathfinder and others. I would want the thread to show up when any of those tags are selected.

2. If I select DnD 3.5, how to I "reset" the forum so I can then select "Pathfinder".

3. Can you put a bar of the tags that are selectable just below the bar that shows which page out of 'number' of pages that you are looking at? (that would take care of #2 above).

-- david
Papa.DRB

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Not a fan of this at all.

Don't really want to read about 4E and D&D Next threads as I'm not interested in either of those systems. General topics I'm fine with and are pretty much the reason I still visit here. If those are going to be harder to peruse or access due to the anticipate flood of D&D Next posts that will be coming with the new edition then what's the point?

Ugh. Just when I started coming back here regularly again.