Our new forum structure - coming in a day or two!

[Morrus]

We've thought a lot about how to structure the forums once 4E is released, and while we realise there's no way we can please everyone, we've come up with a structure which we hope will at least be acceptable to the majority of people.

Our aims here: to ensure that 3.x players are still given enough attention, and to highlight a few things like Pathfinder and the like by not "burying" them in a ghetto forum. We hope that this structure will mean no ghetto forums!

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions - we hope that this is a reasonable compromise between the many differing viewpoints.

So, here's the new structure; we'll be reorganising the forums at some point this weekend.

General RPG Discussion

General RPG Discussion - non rules discussion about ANY game, including D&D, Pathfinder and other d20/OGL stuff; it's basically gonna be system-neutral stuff plus releases, etc.

General RPG Rules - rules discussion about anything that's not D&D, as above.​

D&D 4th Edition Discussion

4E Rules

4E House Rules​

D&D 3rd Edition & Older Discussion

3E Rules

3E House Rules​

The only flexible option at the moment is the possibility of separate forums in 3E and 4E for Conversions, but we'll look hard at the traffic levels before we decide.

 

[EricNoah]

Thanks!

I'm assuming you will watch General over the next couple of weeks to see how it's going? I suspect that "15 threads per page" plus "4E excitement" will equal "anything that's not 4E getting washed away to page 2" within 10 minutes, but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

edit: I guess it's more like 20 threads per page, isn't it?

 

[Morrus]

Thanks!

I'm assuming you will watch General over the next couple of weeks to see how it's going? I suspect that "15 threads per page" plus "4E excitement" will equal "anything that's not 4E getting washed away to page 2" within 10 minutes, but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

I think that - for General in particular - it being temporarily dominated by the big news of the moment is a realistic expectation. So, at the beginning of June, it will be 4E dominated, although a lot of the 4E posts will belong in Rules and House Rules; but we hope that, for example, when Pathfinder is released, we'll see it represented heavily for a period of time. General, I think, should reflect the general subjects of conversation on peoples' minds at the time, which I'm sure will ebb and flow continually.

 

[Arnwyn]

Looks good!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Seems like a good solution to me.

...going to be odd to look at though...

 

[EricNoah]

I think that - for General in particular - it being temporarily dominated by the big news of the moment is a realistic expectation. So, at the beginning of June, it will be 4E dominated, although a lot of the 4E posts will belong in Rules and House Rules; but we hope that, for example, when Pathfinder is released, we'll see it represented heavily for a period of time. General, I think, should reflect the general subjects of conversation on peoples' minds at the time, which I'm sure will ebb and flow continually.

Totally understandable. It will be interesting to see how it works out!

 

[el-remmen]

I find that limit on the # of threads per page a lot more inconvenient than I ever imagined it would be and I had not considered how that new limit would effect the usability of the new combined general forum.

Is this something we are going to have to wait for ENworld 2 in order to go back to more threads per page?

 

[EricNoah]

If you compare the two forums as they are now... General currently is showing threads as old as about 16 hours old on page 1. 4E, by contrast, is showing threads about 1 hour old on page 1.

 

[blargney the second]

Looks good!
-blarg

ps - Thanks for letting us know how you're redecorating the house.

 

[Agamon]

I'm all whoa! Who moved the couch over there?

Looks good! A place for everything and everything in it's place!