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

[MNblockhead]

Honestly, that's a really good question. I've found myself heading over to the tabletop RPG forum much more than the D&D one for a while now as I've drifted off from 5E. I'm just about to go back to a game we're starting up again with existing characters so I'll be playing it, but we're using the 5.0 rules, so a lot of the discussion in that forum won't even apply.

Assuming interest in Daggerheart fades, I'll probably be here less and less until we decide to move to 5.5, if that even happens. Which is too bad, because I enjoy a lot of the discussion with a lot of y'all. Probably be back come Gamehole Con time to see who will be going there and interested in grabbing a beverage.

I'll be there again this year. Too early to start a thread?

 

[SteveC]

I'm curious, since I've sometimes looked around: is this the only RPG forum you use, and if not, where else do you hang?

I'm on a lot of different boards but I tend to read and not post to them. I'm a Redditer and actually mod a community over there where we discuss game design.

Edited to add: there are a lot of boards still out there, but Enworld moderation doesn't really like to discuss different places here (which I can respect).

 

[SteveC]

I'll be there again this year. Too early to start a thread?

I think it may be a bit too early. But I'll participate when we get closer. I'm glad to get a beverage with any of you. The bartenders crazily remember me because I always tip them.

 

[Umbran]

... but Enworld moderation doesn't really like to discuss different places here (which I can respect).

Discussion of other places usually eventually takes the form of trash-talking, which we aren't okay with. .

 

[SteveC]

Discussion of other places usually eventually takes the form of trash-talking, which we aren't okay with

I've been around here for conversations about other sites, and even the ones that started off positive or helpful turned into people talking trash about issues that typically had nothing to do with the initial question. So yeah, message received, and I always try to talk about the issue at hand in the thread that I'm commenting in.

 

[Voadam]

I haven't played D&D for over a year now, but I am a player in a weekly online fantasy game using a non-D&D homebrew system. I think when I start going back to my face to face group they are currently doing a d20 modern x-files type campaign.

I still really like D&D and a lot of D&D discussions and expect I would probably run 5e the next time I pick up the DM role again.

I am here for a lot of just fun or interesting gaming discussion, less so about the specific mechanics and nitty gritty of 24 D&D or most industry news, more about fun lore type stuff like the cosmology threads. When I was DMing I occasionally started threads about rules questions to get advice but the only real posting of relevance to my current gaming is the occasional post I do in the Describe Your Last Game in 5 Words thread.

 

[Argyle King]

Though you run into the issue that its hit or miss how well a thread about games that aren't well known will take off, since the percentage of people playing other RPGs are lower in the first place. You have better luck with general threads about RPGs that don't assume D&D is the standard to work from than discussion about specific RPGs IME.

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.

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.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All the cybersex.

... what?

 

[Argyle King]

To elaborate on my previous comment:

I've been surprised to find that a lot more people enjoy "nerd" things --like tabletop games-- than you might think. Many just don't talk about it because they assume (like you might) that they are alone in their interests.

If two kids on bicycles can be motivated enough to cycle across town and knock on my door at 7am to tell me about their faith, I feel like I can manage talking to someone about tabletop games.

Here on ENWorld, we all had to make an account to participate, so I assume most of us are already familiar with the relevant pamphlets concerning our games of choice and open to discussing them.

 

[Bagpuss]

You're nice people on the whole, you get interesting discussions that are beyond D&D, and general RPG news as well.