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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1155746" data-attributes="member: 3051">Well, I figure it this way: D&D isn't really getting much of an influx of "new" players, so this board has two distinct populations.  There are the old farts who have discussed all of these rule quibbles to death, and new people who either ask simple questions or come up with fantastic "new" ideas like Telekinesis on a barrel of arrows, or Whirlwind Attack and a bucket of snails... this isn't really conducive to a good conversation.Then 3.5E comes out.  It fixes a few of the things that used to cause annoying threads, like Harm, and it makes some changes that are really worth talking about, like the new Ranger, but most of the material didn't change.  So, other than the first week when everyone who didn't have the books wanted info, there's not much to talk about.These days, my group only checks the boards for two reasons:1> To trade ideas.  And by "trade" I usually mean "read the story hours of people like Piratecat and Sagiro and figure out what ideas we can steal".2> To get more peoples' opinions on house rules we're still trying to fine-tune.When I see rule threads pointing out a flaw in the rules, more often than not my response would be "sure, it's a problem, but we already house-ruled that away".  Not a constructive response, so why post it?</blockquote>