"D&D Legacy"

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've participated in a few 1Ed and 2Ed themed threads in Legacy. Yes, its 3.X heavy, but that's no real surprise, what with its status as being the most recently supplanted commercial version of the game.

So, personally, if a 1Ed/2Ed theme thread pops up and it interests me, I'll participate...but I can't see those warranting their own sub-fora.

ENWorld goes that way, and pretty soon we'll have a forum for OD&D (1974) in which diaglo just listens to the echo.

 

[renau1g]

ENWorld goes that way, and pretty soon we'll have a forum for OD&D (1974) in which diaglo just listens to the echo.

Maybe he could make sock-puppet accounts and then talk to himself

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That way lies madness...or Saturday Morning TV.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I suggest merging the two "legacy" forums with Pathfinder to make a "3.X General" forum. It seems strange to separate PF out; there isn't much separation between the games as they're played. The separation of legacy general and legacy houserules is also uneeded I think. Many houserule-ish topics come up in general and the houserule forum has pretty low traffic.

Indeed. It's entirely bass ackwards atm.

Separate altered 3e from 3e, but [in theory anyway] lump in every (considerably different) earlier edition of D&D with it instead?

O. . . K. . .

It might be interesting to get some more perspectives from those actually interested in earlier D&D, you know, in the present.

 

[Merkuri]

I seem to recall that 3e and Pathfinder were one forum at one point and there were complaints about that. I think those complaints revolved around the idea that the games were subtly different enough that somebody asking a question about 3e might get a bunch of entirely unhelpful responses about Pathfinder.

It makes sense to me to put them in the same forum, but I guess the 3e and Pathfinder fans thought otherwise.

 

[pawsplay]

I seem to recall that 3e and Pathfinder were one forum at one point and there were complaints about that. I think those complaints revolved around the idea that the games were subtly different enough that somebody asking a question about 3e might get a bunch of entirely unhelpful responses about Pathfinder.

It makes sense to me to put them in the same forum, but I guess the 3e and Pathfinder fans thought otherwise.

Well, it helps me keep track of which rules-set I'm responding to. I think from a practical standpoint, Pathfinder does get enough traffic to justify its forum. I don't think it would be a huge deal if they were combined, but I like the separation.

 

[Orius]

Two ways to fix this without adding a forum that won't get used:

Add thread prefixes to the Legacy forum to indicate edition: 1e, 2e, BECMI, 3.x.

Have the mods move threads that are clearly about classic D&D into the Legacy forum from General, which is where much of this discussion ends up. Get enough threads move, it might "train" posters into using the Legacy forum for pre-3e discussion.