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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 4799635" data-attributes="member: 1846">My brother Neal found the site, and as I was just starting at University and experiencing online access for the first time, he was able to send me a link. We started reading all the pre-3e stuff as it came along, and then at some point I registered and started posting on the boards.Diverse. There are all sorts of people on here, but mostly what unites them is a desire to game, to discuss gaming, and to find ways to help themselves enjoy the game more.The community, and the fact that the majority of the opinions expressed chimed well with my own. Plus, I was involved in the original Hivemind stuff way back (when it was still hosted in the Meta forum!) and I had a lot of friends come out of that. Most of those have since left the boards, but others have replaced them here and there are new people whom I'm coming across all the time.Ye gods, yes. Getting a grip on 4e was so much easier with all the experience of everyone else to draw on. Rules, suggestions, changes to published modules and just the confidence of knowing that lots of other people are trying this out too and having the same problems really helps.My 4e Cleric drew heavily on some suggestions from the boards when I was building him, and my Keep on the Shadowfell game is a lot better from the advice I've taken here.In 2000 - 2001 I went through a tough time, personally, and spent a lot of time online escaping from it. The community here really helped with the Hivemind providing a lot of emotional support, and now that I'm happier it's great to see that it still exists for those people that need it. I also made some great friends, including some I've never actually met, through ENWorld.As an independent site, I don't think it can be beaten for D&D discussion.</blockquote>

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