Please bring back Plots & Places Forum (merged)

[Bran Blackbyrd]

A New Home for Plots and Places?

I think Plots and Places should have been combined with the Rogues Gallery to make a homebrewed content forum.
The way it is now, instead of having the resources at hand in their own forum, they have to be sifted out of the chaos in the general forum.

Combining it with the rogues gallery would keep the number of forums the same too, so it still serves the purpose of forum consolidation.

Thank you.

 

[Wraith Form]

Please bring back Plots & Places Forum

Hi, Morrus, Hypersmurf, etc.

This is a request (no demands, no "strongly worded letters to the editor"--keeping things civil) to bring back Plots & Places as it's own separate forum.

I understood merging d20 Modern with d20 System/OGL Games forums--that made sense to me, and I like it.

I also understand Plo&Pla was a slower subsection of the boards, but now that it's been merged with General Discussion (which is nearly furious with turnover/new postings) it's impossible to keep up with--or even *find*--the Plots & Places threads. They get lost in the "tide" of General Discussion posts.

That's merely my opinion, but as a "fan" of Plo&Pla it'd mean a lot to me to see it have it's own separate forum again.

And if you say "NO" I'll drop it, too--it'll require hard work that you guys might not want to undertake.

Thank you! --Wraith Form

 

[Micar Sin]

I rather agree with this,actually. General moves so fast that often times a thread that in P&P would have garnered some very good responses over a few days are washed away by the rather larger number of posts that hit general.
I definately see why it was done, as it it is easier on the server and is one less place to moderate, but I would like to see it return. Heck, you don't know me from Elminster, but I'll moderate it

 

[Tonguez]

Yep just another meek and gentle request to seperate Plots/Places out again

Two reasons
1. Plots and Places was good for ideas (maybe combine it with Rogues gallery instead?)

2. The General boards are now a mess! a thread can be posted in the morning and then be pushed to page 3 within a couple of hours. Its chaos out there!

 

[Chacal]

I feel like we lost Plot and places, too.

As it stands now,
it's no more useful as a resource, because only the threads' starters and some of the contributors can remember them.


I would have understood if it was made as a subforum of General RPG Discussion,
or even better if fitting topics that were drowned in GeneralRPG would have been moved to Plot and Places (I know, I know, That's quite another burden on the moderator's shoulders).




Chacal, missing the good 'ol plot 'n places

 

[Mystery Man]

I like it in the general forum better. It's right where anyone who has something to contribute can see it and jot something down rather than have to go to a specific place. This'll probably get moved to meta....

 

[Berandor]

I also think it's good here. Even with an own subforum, a lot of threads here were Plots&Places-worthy. I agree with the reasoning that a good chunk of posts in General are P&P, anyway, and are responsible for a lot of the flavor is this forum, as well.
My party's in a tight spot.
DM burnout.
etc.

 

[LightPhoenix]

All the more reason to read Meta, where this was brought up some time ago - at least a month, if not more.

 

[Chacal]

I also think it's good here. Even with an own subforum, a lot of threads here were Plots&Places-worthy. I agree with the reasoning that a good chunk of posts in General are P&P, anyway, and are responsible for a lot of the flavor is this forum, as well.
My party's in a tight spot.
DM burnout.
etc.

I agree a lot of threads here are Plot and Places worthy, but they're still in the minority. At the moment I can only count a couple of them in the first page. I'm not sure they'll still be here in a few hours.


Plot and Places threads are seldom very active topics, so they're quite doomed in the current configuration.


It could be cool if vbulletin handled links (like the "moved") but that would refresh if the thread is updated.

That way you could have a subforum with links to Plot_n_places threads that would stay in General Discussion.

Better of both worlds



Chacal, spoiled user always aking for more

 

[Chacal]

All the more reason to read Meta, where this was brought up some time ago - at least a month, if not more.

Yep, and it was before the change. Now we can talk about the effects of the change, not just speculate.
We might have wait a bit more to draw conclusions though.
I agree that this should go to meta after some exposure. (I like moved threads, they motivate checking other forums, at least for me)



Chacal