Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
I think Enworld is the most balanced in term of civility and helpfulness without being echo chambers.
GITP is really optimization-heavy. Its hard to suggest anything that is not related to a (perceived) optimized build.
Reddit is really an echo chamber:
MeWe's and Reddit's game-specific groups have low traffic but they are rather calm and proactive communities.
Tribality doesnt have a message board per-se, but its a fun site with many regular posters that are quite active.
GITP is really optimization-heavy. Its hard to suggest anything that is not related to a (perceived) optimized build.
Reddit is really an echo chamber:
- r/dndnext is a board to trash on Dms: the most common posts are posts starting with ''My Dm doesnt allow X'' and the usual response is ''Its a bad/horrible/criminally inapt DM, you should quit''
- r/dnd is just a lot of art, not a bad place, but not much discussion about D&D going down there.
- r/rpg is actually quite good, polite, well-moderated
- r/osr is somewhat interesting, but it suffers a lot from the usual obnoxious elitism of ''is it OSR enough?''.
- r/unearthedarcana is a really proactive community and people are usually really helpful. A little too much cingey homebrews for my taste (I mean, how much variation of blood magic do you need!?)
MeWe's and Reddit's game-specific groups have low traffic but they are rather calm and proactive communities.
Tribality doesnt have a message board per-se, but its a fun site with many regular posters that are quite active.