Best known D&D forums on the web?
- Thread starter Thalantor
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Places I go for D&D & general RPG discussion are ENW, rpg.net, & The Forge, in that order of frequency. Very rarely brief look at WoTC boards, but I'd rather be the philistine on The Forge than the role-wimp among the munchkins.
For specific stuff - Necromancer Games (Lost City of Barakus), Troll Lord (Lost City of Gaxmoor) and Mongoose (Conan).
For specific stuff - Necromancer Games (Lost City of Barakus), Troll Lord (Lost City of Gaxmoor) and Mongoose (Conan).
3ebb doesn't rate well any more - it used to be a good board, but has suffered too much attrition. Discussion boards rely on people actually discussing topics that are posted. There aren't enough participants at 3ebb any more.
The Wizards boards are top dogs because they're the official boards, and you'll also get the Wizards designers looking in from time to time. Hard to beat that.
THe ENWorld boards are second because of a couple of reasons; the big initial reason was Eric Noah who provided a reason for people to gather here in the first place. The second reason (and why the boards continue so strongly) is because this board became the place for d20 system designers and commentators to be.
RPG.net is the place to go for general RPG discussions.
By their very nature, big boards tend to attract participants from smaller boards: if you are assured of getting feedback to your posts, then things are much better.
Personally, I find the forum set-up of 3ebb to be extremely poor - it creates divisions where there isn't enough traffic to warrant them, and popular features like Polls are shunted off to a subforum where you have to really want to vote in one to investigate. Compare to ENworld's structure: ENworld really has only three main D&D discussion forums: General, Rules and House Rules. 3ebb has eight!
Although I'm sure the 3ebb gets new members when it does well on the top sites, members will leave when their posts aren't replied to.
Cheers!
The Wizards boards are top dogs because they're the official boards, and you'll also get the Wizards designers looking in from time to time. Hard to beat that.
THe ENWorld boards are second because of a couple of reasons; the big initial reason was Eric Noah who provided a reason for people to gather here in the first place. The second reason (and why the boards continue so strongly) is because this board became the place for d20 system designers and commentators to be.
RPG.net is the place to go for general RPG discussions.
By their very nature, big boards tend to attract participants from smaller boards: if you are assured of getting feedback to your posts, then things are much better.
Personally, I find the forum set-up of 3ebb to be extremely poor - it creates divisions where there isn't enough traffic to warrant them, and popular features like Polls are shunted off to a subforum where you have to really want to vote in one to investigate. Compare to ENworld's structure: ENworld really has only three main D&D discussion forums: General, Rules and House Rules. 3ebb has eight!
Although I'm sure the 3ebb gets new members when it does well on the top sites, members will leave when their posts aren't replied to.
Cheers!
GlassJaw
Hero
The only time I go to the WotC boards now is when I'm looking for some kind of errata or have some kind of rules question. I was close to 5,000 posts on there back in the day but the quality of posts drove me away.
I check out the Paizo boards quite often as well. Although I mostly check out the Adventure Path forum (because I'm running it), the Dungeon forum is good too. It's really helpful if you are looking for some advice on running the modules. A lot of the authors make appearances as well. There's actually been some cool threads about mapping and cartography recently in which some of the pros have chimed in as well.
I check out the Paizo boards quite often as well. Although I mostly check out the Adventure Path forum (because I'm running it), the Dungeon forum is good too. It's really helpful if you are looking for some advice on running the modules. A lot of the authors make appearances as well. There's actually been some cool threads about mapping and cartography recently in which some of the pros have chimed in as well.
diaglo
Adventurer
mpws1 said:HI all.
Does anybody here know of a 2nd editioin forum, thats what im playing at the moment?
thanks
try the OoP part of the forums on www.mortality.net
there are several proponents of 2edADnD there.
Hurtfultater
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S'mon said:
I go to rpg.net, ENWorld, and The Forge, also in order. Againsttheshadow.com is good for Midnight.
I'm not sure where The Forge's reputation for hostility comes from, myself. I've just never seen it.
Brennin Magalus
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Ron said:
I understand that they also have fora dedicated to the 286 computer, BETA VCR, hot pants, and the horse-and-buggy.
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