Other Game systems

[Nathal]

Hey, I was wondering...why can't we have a specific forum for non-OGL and non-D20 games?

I'd rather chat with the folks here at ENworld about Runequest, GURPs, White Wolf stuff, or whatever else. Not anywhere else...this community is the best.

I know that there's no rule forbidding me from posting about other games in the General RPG discussion, but heck, wouldn't be easy to set up a "non-OGL RPG forum"?

 

[Treebore]

You don't like the forums sponsored by those specific companies?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Most company sponsored forums are either overrun by rabid haters or rabid fanboys. (This goes for nearly every type of entertainment, incidentally, just so the game companies don't feel like I'm picking on them.)

 

[Nathal]

You don't like the forums sponsored by those specific companies?

I have nothing against the specific company forums.

What I'm feeling is that this community, though dedicated to D20 fans for the most part, is much friendlier a place than RPG.net. If we had a non-OGL sub-forum, that would make RPG.net's forums superfluous to me. I just enjoy reading others' opinions about various RPGs on the market (and only rarely do I become dedicated to one for a while).

 

[Treebore]

Oh man! Well thanks for telling me up front it will be a waste of time for me to release my religious zeal on you about the holy merits of playing only the one true game of Castles and Crusades!

I can see your point. I don't like the WOTC boards for much the same reasons, especially ones like Whizbang posted.

I would love a forum to talk Shadowrun and Traveller, but I have found pretty decent ones through the various web rings.

Plus I do most of my proslytizing on the forums of the already converted, because they are a great group of people so far. No bad apples at all.

 

[Mark]

Considering the expanded focus of the ENnies, an additional forum might be a good idea.

 

[Piratecat]

Threads about other game systems are certainly encouraged, and currently go in General.

We haven't set up a separate forum because there isn't enough demand; a forum for this would get less traffic than it deserves, and thus would sit largely moribund. We'll do this some day if the number of threads for other games becomes distractingly and consistently large.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I recall posting the same idea, Nathal. It was some time ago, in a thread about forum suggestions, or suchlike.

I still think a non-d20, non-OGL RPG forum here is an excellent idea.

 

[Nathal]

Oh man! Well thanks for telling me up front it will be a waste of time for me to release my religious zeal on you about the holy merits of playing only the one true game of Castles and Crusades!

C&C is cool, no doubt. The Troll Lords have done a good job capturing the hearts and minds of the Old Guard.

 

[trancejeremy]

I would like to see one as well. Sure, right now there aren't a lot of them, but I think if there were a forum, there would be more.