D&D General The Worst Part About Leaving D&D...

[payn]

I left rpg.net a long time ago. And reddit is... good to lurk on and search for information or discussions but not for me.

I don't know how people stand Discord as a "message board."

I have to second all of this. Discord is perfect for like up to 25 people. Over that its a craptastic adventure in being annoyed. Reddit is great if you need a quick answer to a question. RPG.net has never been a great place for me. Though, there is quite a bit of discussion there on lots o topics.

 

[Velderan]

4. Finally, think of this as a great opportunity to get to the bottom of burning questions that we all need answered ... you know, like What would a 19 Year Old Junior Duchess who has had a 26 Year old Half-Cousin of non-Noble Birth do if Her Three Large Baronies Did Not Provide for Her Husband's Heirs?

I can't be the only one who thinks WotC is testing AI DMs one post at a time on this forum.

 

[CubicsRube]

I haven't run D&D for years but still enjoy Enworld.

I predict that if people move to other games, they'll just start talking about other games.

 

[darjr]

This forum has weathered many storms and it is meant to be for all RPGs after all.

My original engagement here was with Gary posting and I wasn’t even playing any editions of D&D at the time. If I remember right. It was GURPS.

 

[thullgrim]

SWADE has fairly robust Reddit and Facebook Group communities. The level is discourse is generally the same as you find here (heavy moderation - which I appreciate!) but they are active and helpful. PEG still maintains there own forums as well at the peginc site.

PF2- Reddit is pretty much the best place I’ve found.

In general I find discord a lousy place to try and have a real discussion.

 

[dave2008]

...is the much decreased level of engagement for other games. There's no place to enjoy as robust, broad based, active and pugnacious conversation about, say, Savage Worlds. There's no SWADE version of ENWorld.

I know that sounds silly, but it is a real thing. This community and the desire to continue to be a part of it has, in the past, kept me playing D&D when I otherwise would have abandoned it. I suppose it is a symptom of a kind of personality disorder that I feel like I NEED that level of interaction, but here we are.

Anyway, just feelinga little melancholy. Feel free to use this thread to discuss your favorite kind of gnome bard.

(The answer is, of course: none.)

There are many people who participate in the D&D forums who are no longer or not currently playing D&D. You can do the same!

 

[Argyle King]

...is the much decreased level of engagement for other games. There's no place to enjoy as robust, broad based, active and pugnacious conversation about, say, Savage Worlds. There's no SWADE version of ENWorld.

I know that sounds silly, but it is a real thing. This community and the desire to continue to be a part of it has, in the past, kept me playing D&D when I otherwise would have abandoned it. I suppose it is a symptom of a kind of personality disorder that I feel like I NEED that level of interaction, but here we are.

Anyway, just feelinga little melancholy. Feel free to use this thread to discuss your favorite kind of gnome bard.

(The answer is, of course: none.)

That's something you could have a hand in changing.

Help build the community and conversations you'd like to have around the games you enjoy.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

...is the much decreased level of engagement for other games. There's no place to enjoy as robust, broad based, active and pugnacious conversation about, say, Savage Worlds. There's no SWADE version of ENWorld.

I know that sounds silly, but it is a real thing. This community and the desire to continue to be a part of it has, in the past, kept me playing D&D when I otherwise would have abandoned it. I suppose it is a symptom of a kind of personality disorder that I feel like I NEED that level of interaction, but here we are.

Anyway, just feelinga little melancholy. Feel free to use this thread to discuss your favorite kind of gnome bard.

(The answer is, of course: none.)

This is just my POV so: I left D&D back in 2008. For a long while the Paizo boards were very robust. But if I'm being honest these sort of communities have always been problematic for me. It is a great place for resources and learning about how different people run and play their games. But the edition wars, the arguing over minutia, the toxicity, I don't know. The parts I missed kept me stopping by here even though the last time I ran and played actual D&D was at the tail end of 2008. But for the most part, I've been fine without the worst parts of it and don't miss it at all.
My only real concern as a gamer is to find people who enjoy playing the games I enjoy and are DECENT PEOPLE first, more so than good gamers. I've also grown to realize that the greater community doesn't represent what I enjoy or the way I run and play games and that's fine. It just makes their input and or opinion less valuable to me.

 

[Reynard]

SWADE has fairly robust Reddit and Facebook Group communities. The level is discourse is generally the same as you find here (heavy moderation - which I appreciate!) but they are active and helpful. PEG still maintains there own forums as well at the peginc site.

PF2- Reddit is pretty much the best place I’ve found.

In general I find discord a lousy place to try and have a real discussion.

I like the Official SW FB group (being a cranky old GenXer, FB is my favored -- read: only -- form of social media) but discussions on FB have a really short half life and FB makes it as difficult as possible to navigate discussion threads.

 

[thullgrim]

I like the Official SW FB group (being a cranky old GenXer, FB is my favored -- read: only -- form of social media) but discussions on FB have a really short half life and FB makes it as difficult as possible to navigate discussion threads.

I keep a FB account just for access to a couple of rpg groups but have steadily been moving away from it. Reddit is easier to search and keep track of threads so I spend more time there and FB and don’t have to deal with the FB stuff that irritates. I’m a GenXer myself. I hate most of the socials. I keep an instagram for woodworking.

That’s actually one of the better things about Reddit. I can follow multiple hobbies on one place.

 

[Richards]

There is exactly one type of good bard. A DEAD ONE.

What about a scabbard? You could stick the blade of a sword into it and nobody would even bat an eyebrow. (Granted, you could stick the blade of a sword into a regular bard, too, but you just know somebody's going to make a fuss....)

Johnathan

 

[bloodtide]

I agree.

Reddit is ok to ask a question and get a couple answers, but you can never have a discussion.

Discord is a joke. It's not like there is a list of discords, and when you randomly find one....few or none post there.

The best you can look for is the couple of places that have an "Other games" forum.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Even lively Discords that are the official forums for a game are hard to navigate, so you end up asking the same question someone else asked, or many someones asked, and no one has the patience to explain it again.

It'd be nice if the implosion of the big social media sites led to a robust community of message boards again.

 

[Reynard]

That's something you could have a hand in changing.

Help build the community and conversations you'd like to have around the games you enjoy.

I start threads about not-D&D games all the time. The engagement is much, much lower than D&D threads.

 

[Argyle King]

I start threads about not-D&D games all the time. The engagement is much, much lower than D&D threads.

I imagine that's likely true on Enworld.

Edit: Especially in the area labeled "Dungeons & Dragons."

 

[Stormonu]

There are many people who participate in the D&D forums who are no longer or not currently playing D&D. You can do the same!

I feel compelled to put a meme in here with a picture of the Isle of Misfit Toys (The Isle of Misfit Gamers? Seeking a gaming group?)

 

[Jer]

Star Wars WEG did a lot of the Lord's work fleshing out Star Wars lore that got swept away with Disney's junk.

The thing that interests me is how much interest in Star Wars games seemed to fall after Lucas started making movies again. I know part of it was that WEG went bankrupt and so the game was out of print, and Wizards made a d20 version that was contentious with the Star Wars fans, but even beyond that it felt like folks I knew who previously were big into the game just ... stopped once Phantom Menace came out. Like it was "oh there's official content coming out again, I'll just watch that". Maybe it's just the people I know and it wasn't that widespread but it's weird.

 

[SteveC]

When 5E first came out, I really tried it out but found it wasn't for me, so I stopped coming by Enworld much. Since then I've run a campaign of it, and am playing in one as well (along with ... shudder ... 3.5) so I came back. I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of the people I remember coming back as well. The OGL situation brought them back too, and I really enjoyed talking a little. So I am so glad to be back and discussing things again.

And as far as Pathfinder 2 goes: there are quite a few of us here who are also on the Reddit for it. I'll have to see if I see you post there and I'll say hi, but I have a different user name over there (shockingly, stevec was taken!)

But yes, when you can engage on D&D, Enworld is a very fine place to be.

 

[el-remmen]

Feel free to use this thread to discuss your favorite kind of gnome bard.

My favorite gnome bard is Alston Turin, who multiclassed to wizard and was essentially the party leader, so much so that when the party failed to name themselves, the locals started calling them "Alston and His Big Folk" (which, as DM, I thought might shame them into picking a name, but instead they all happily glommed on to it!)

 

[Sabathius42]

The thing that interests me is how much interest in Star Wars games seemed to fall after Lucas started making movies again. I know part of it was that WEG went bankrupt and so the game was out of print, and Wizards made a d20 version that was contentious with the Star Wars fans, but even beyond that it felt like folks I knew who previously were big into the game just ... stopped once Phantom Menace came out. Like it was "oh there's official content coming out again, I'll just watch that". Maybe it's just the people I know and it wasn't that widespread but it's weird.

It's interesting that the biggest legacy left behind from the D20 Star Wars era is the videogame Knights of the Old Republic.

Just about every videogamer I talk to LOVES that game and most everyone of them had no idea it was based on a TTRPG.