For those who don't play D&D (or its clones), what keeps you engaged with EN World?

[Thomas Shey]

I can maybe partially agree with that.

Though, I have also seen ongoing threads for Dungeon Crawl Classics, (occasionally) GURPS, (recently) Daggerheart, and a few other things.

DCC has a fairly strong fandom and overlaps with the D&D community a reasonable bit. Daggerheart is kind of a new hotness.

I admit a pleasant surprise when something like a GURPS discussion takes off at all, though.

Whether here or in my day-to-day face-to-face life, I've been surprised to find that there are people interested in ttrpgs -and open to playing more than D&D- than expected. A lot of the time, that discovery has come from being more open about what my own interests are.

Oh, you can absolutely find it elsewhere; its just this place is particularly D&D-centric even as RPG spaces go. Which it comes by legit after all, but its a thing you have to account for.

 

[Glyptodont]

I've never actually played D&D despite playing rpgs for 45-ish years. So I mainly check out the TTRPG General forum when I'm here. Though honestly I only pop in here if I'm not finding anything interesting on RPG.net at the moment.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

This sub forum is literally the only part of ENWorld I use, I vastly prefer forums to discord or 99% of reddit so my choices are limited but the people on here (for the most part) are good folks and knowledgable too.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

Giving up nearly all social media was the best thing I've done for my mental health and productivity. It is on par with giving up smoking. I probably still spend too much time here and on Reddit, but I am careful with the topics I engage.

This right here is where I am at, ditching social Media is making my life better a little bit at a time. I still get sucked into stupid arguments with people who are half my age and a 10th of my experience but c'est la vie. i am down to Reddit and Bluesky now but I am about to cut out all the none gaming follows on bluesky because the ttrpg community on there is really solid and fun but the real world bleeds in just a bit to much.

 

[Golden Bee]

This sub forum is literally the only part of ENWorld I use

Same.

 

[LordEntrails]

Habit. And that I've found no place more enjoyable. And right now for me that's a pretty low bar.
Really coming to the conclusion that I would rather spend my time creating RPG stuff than reading or commenting about general RPG stuff.

 

[Scribe Ineti]

Just curious what keeps people who are not interested in D&D participating in discussions on EN World?

It's one of few well-populated and well-moderated RPG-related forums still in active use. I'm just here to monitor TTRPGs General to hear what folks are saying about the industry outside one particular company and their game.

 

[MNblockhead]

It's one of few well-populated and well-moderated RPG-related forums still in active use. I'm just here to monitor TTRPGs General to hear what folks are saying about the industry outside one particular company and their game.

Yeah, I go in cycles in terms of how active I'm on the site. But even when I'm very busy or go on a strict social-media diet, I still find myself checking out the site for the news post fairly regularly. Its a bit of a goldilocks gaming forum. When I get into a new system I'll go to Reddits, forums, and/or Discord channels focused on that system, but ENWorld has remained a constant, regardless of what I'm playing.