I've given up on WotC's message boards. What about you?

[Qualidar]

I voted "did but have given up on them". Before I discovered the ENWorld forums in late 2002/early 2003 I used to spend a fair amount of time there. Over the course of about a year though I gradually moved to spending more and more time here at ENWorld. In the last couple of years I have only been back sporadically, and usually for a specific reason rather than just general lurking. I find that the maturity level is a bit lower over there, as well as the average age (IMO of course!).

That's me exactly.

~Qualidar~

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I post there a bit more than I post here, mostly because I spend a lot of time on the D20 Modern boards there.

I agree with Psion about the fortress mentality in the psionics forum at WotC. I hardly post there anymore, because if you dare call something overpowered, you risk being flamed. I recall a poster from WotC's psionics board coming here and endlessly arguing that Energy Missile was balanced until the thread got locked. That's just giving psionics a bad name

I spend some time at the Eberron board. There's usually a few threads on the page that hold my interest. Unfortunately, Keith Baker doesn't have enough time to post there anymore (he has about a dozen projects), and WotC's decision to "nerf" or cancel the Dragonshards Article really hurt the forum.

The WotC forums seem to be bigger, not that I have have actual numbers to back this up. More poeple means more cool stuff and more jerks.

 

[TheYeti1775]

Other -
I go months of lurking to posting a few times a day there.
Mainly though it is to specific questions if I know the answer or have a suggestion.

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I have noticed 'unofficial' 3rd Party tends to be shun as a suggestions, along with a good many house rules. Some just like here can get 'fanatic' in their rejection of it too.

I would say the age difference on average is lower over there, which is to be expected. I actually learned of EnWorld while there pursing the Gamer Classifieds.

Every board has it's points, both good and bad.

Yeti

 

[Bobitron]

I've posted some in the Eberron and d20 Modern forums, but I don't check them often. Maybe once every couple months?

Edit: I haven't posted there in months, so I chose "I did but have given up on them".

 

[KB9JMQ]

I have been there a couple of times because of something stated here.
I would rather spend my time at EN World.
Heck I only visit other sites when this one is down and that is to see when it might be back up.

 

[Crust]

I've been posting on the Wizards boards for the last four years, but I've been visiting them less lately.

There's WAY too much of that quote-every-paragraph-and-force-feed-opinion on those boards...

The worst was when they removed the novels forum. What a stupid decision. A publishing company won't allow its fans to post comments about the novels they publish. The moderators on those boards are little more than members of the Thought Police anymore. It's pathetic.

I do like their "What's a DM to Do" forum, and I frequent the Forgotten Realms forums, but overall those boards are full of flamers and trolls who simply MUST be right and refuse to even consider other opinions. It's a cesspit on some of those forums.

 

[TheYeti1775]

The worst was when they removed the novels forum. What a stupid decision. A publishing company won't allow its fans to post comments about the novels they publish. The moderators on those boards are little more than members of the Thought Police anymore. It's pathetic.

Actually that one did perturb when it happened. When I asked why, I was given a warning not to bring it up. Even mentioning a Novel Character or Scenario is taboo over there now.

Yeti

 

[Seeker95]

The novels issue is a legal matter, not a Moderator decision.

 

[TheYeti1775]

The novels issue is a legal matter, not a Moderator decision.

I understand the legalities of posting excerpts of the Novels like some, but many of those were honest reviews. But they even banned a question like this for example:

"What feat would Drizzt be using when he did ___________?"

Stuff along those lines.

Course legalities are the reason I hate lawyers. Honestly if Joe Blow off the street can't understand the law as written, you need to rewrite it. But that's a rant for a whole 'nother forum of mine.

Yeti

 

[Treebore]

That is the perspective I have a problem with. The perspective I don't like is that just because I say "I don't like this." Or "I don't like that." Does not in any way mean I hate D&D or WOTC. It means I disagree. I have my reasons for disagreeing. Other people have their reasons for agreeing with my disagreement or disagreeing with my disagreement. But to say because I complain about something means I hate the game or the company is wrong.

That is why I like the Necromancer boards. Over there we could get into big fights over this or that rule or product, but at the end of the day we were still gaming buddies who love to play D&D.

Nowadays we have gotten most of those kind of arguments out of our systems so the boards to me are a more "Hey, how you doing today?" atmosphere.

The closest we have come to a good old argument over there is "True20 versus C&C", which is the better rules lite system? Even that really went no where because we understand that our differences in preference are due to our differences in style of play.


I would like to find a board where we argue for the fun of it and then kick back and have a drink together afterwards.