D&D General Differences Between D&D Boards

[Prakriti]

In an alternative take, RPGnet is a site with a liberal outlook that is not particularly friendly to conservatives, while theRPGsite is a place where they will grouse about the SJWs on both ENWorld and RPGnet.

I've never been to theRPGsite, but I'm afraid to post on RPGnet. Every time I go there, I see people getting dragged kicking and screaming out the doors for making seemingly innocent remarks. I get the impression that everyone there is walking on eggshells to avoid offending anyone else, and one little slip-up is enough to get you tossed out the doors.

That said, I do enjoy reading RPGnet every now and then. There are some good threads there on occasion. I'm just afraid to post there myself for fear that I'll get the ol' bum-rush for some strange and wholly unexpected reason.

 

[Zardnaar]

You can make you own D&D board by strapping phb togather.

I prefer Pathfinder for this as its a lot heavier/thicker.

Can use as improvised weapons for 1d4 damage. Speed factor is terrible.

 

[Henry]

Yeah. I have a group with 16 players (who all play at the same time). It's a blast.

 

[Henry]

While, this is not the handle I used back in 3e days, I feel the same way. While you do not post as much as you used to in 3e, it warms my heart abit when I see your name....very fond memories of the endless discussion of D&D at that time.

The job I had back in the days of 3e and 3.5 on this forum lent itself to a LOT of downtime, and a LOT of participation. (plus, no Facebook or Twitter, YouTube, or Twitch, so there were a lot fewer choices to divert people like now). These days, I’m in a much better job, but albeit one with a lot less time on my hands except off-hours, so sadly I’m a lot more “drive-by” than I used to be...

 

[Lem23]

In an alternative take, RPGnet is a site with a liberal outlook that is not particularly friendly to conservatives, while theRPGsite is a place where they will grouse about the SJWs on both ENWorld and RPGnet.

I'd say rpgnet isn't at all friendly to right wing extremists, whereas rpgsite is only friendly to right wing extremists.

 

[Celebrim]

Yeah. I have a group with 16 players (who all play at the same time). It's a blast.

Wow. I think maybe 12 players is the most I've ever seen a GM try to handle at once. Takes a lot of skill to keep that many players entertained.

I'll echo and reinforce what ad_hoc said earlier that how many people you have playing together is probably the biggest determinate on what sort of game you are playing, and indeed has a far bigger impact on determining what an RPG game is than the rules set does.

Playing a game with 1 player, or 2 players, or 3-4 players, or 5-8 players, or 9 or more players means you'll end up with something that is almost an entirely different game. I don't think there is any lesson I've learned in the last 20 years as a GM that is more important than that one.

 

[Celebrim]

I'd say rpgnet isn't at all friendly to right wing extremists, whereas rpgsite is only friendly to right wing extremists.

Everyone believes that anyone who doesn't believe something pretty close to what they do is an extremist. Everyone likewise believes that there own extremism is always well justified.

 

[Morrus]

OK, we're not going to talk about politics, even by proxy when describing other forums.

 

[Eltab]

I think the most people I have played with or DM'ed for was 12 at once. We had three or four chairs on each side of a rectangular table, even the DM was cramped for space (I slid over to a corner). Both times were the week of Spring Break when the regulars brought a friend along to check the game out.

It made the combats s-l-o-w but there was no way the PC horde could lose; just a question of how much damage the guys in front would take (or if something exciting would happen like being pushed off a bridge) before the enemies became pincushions of the arcane & mundane, from all the PCs in the back.

 

[Bitbrain]

I used to frequent Giant in the Playground, until I got my current iPad and it decided GitP was not a safe website. I liked GitP for the discussions on gameplay mechanics, and the World Building subforum was always fun*.

I like RPG.net for the Let’s Read threads. Oh, and the Returned Maztica thread, that guy is brilliant.

Reddit is... not my cup of tea. Every interaction I ever had was negative, so I just stopped going there.

I know my dad likes RPG Stack Exchange. Never been there myself.


*my favorite homebrew setting the GitP community worked on was easily Toxic Sky (?), where people lived on and inside mountains and used airships to travel because below a certain altitude the air was poison gas. Unique and very cool.