thoughts on reorganizing forums?

[Henry]

(Could non-moderators get read-only access to the Mods forum? - just joking!) [/B]

You wouldn't like it there - what with all the moved inflammatory threads, the talk of reorganizations, the boring business, the all-night orgies, the drunken revelries, the throwing of water balloons at pictures of Hong, the "pin the tail on the DM" parties - it's no good for people of healthy minds and morals.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I think combineing several formus into a DM's forum would be an excellent idea, althjough i'd leave rogues gallery in bits and pieces. It gets a lot of use by the in character dm's and players. I think the d20 publishers forum should stay as is. Combining it with d20 games would make finding news from the publishers less stream lined. I think changing d20 games to d20/3e might work although most D&D stuff seems to go into general disscussion. A D&D: previous additions forum would be cool.

I don't think we need an OT forum at all, i think the non rpg sci-fi forum cleared most of that up. As to the {Hivemind} well, there's no need IMO to to do anything with it, let alone provide a specific forum. It's become pretty self moderating and obeys Piratecats rules, best bet is to just ignore it. I'm not sure the Rules forum is all that nessary, although i never go there and tend to forget about it. Maybe that forum could get phased out and let general hand rules questions. You might get away with combineing marketplace and games seeking gamers into a personnal add forum or something like that. I'd also slap it into the non-rpg specific section. Then you could combine house rules,plots and places, and the coversion forums into the DM's forum and put that in the D&D/d20 system section. Finally after rearanging that stuff i'd change Bit's and peices to roleplay and have In character, story hour, fight club, and rogues gallery in there.

oh, and i'd pass on a d20 modern forum as well.

anyway, there's my two coppers worth.

 

[alsih2o]

well, it seems the "planar" forum could possibly be wiped without bothering many folks. i also think house rules and rules could be combined with some tags.

 

[Crothian]

well, it seems the "planar" forum could possibly be wiped without bothering many folks. i also think house rules and rules could be combined with some tags.

I think combining house rules and rules is a bad idea. It might confuse people into thinking that some house rules are core rules, and you might get people asking actual rules questions getting house rule responses. Both of the forums seem to get a good deal of traffic anyway.

 

[Umbran]

I don't get over into House Rules much, but usually the Rules forum gets plenty enough traffic to call for it's own forum.

While maybe there's lots of Story Hour characters posted in the Rogue's Gallery, I don't know if that's any reason to not combine into one big DM's people, places, things and idea tidbits forum. It would, in fact, encourage DMs to read the Story Hours for ideas. Woudln't that be a good thing?

 

[Buttercup]

I'd like to respectfully suggest that the Hivemind should consider Nutkin Land as their forum, if they really think they need a separate one. Morrus has made it clear many times that he doesn't want an off topic forum, so that ought to be an end of the matter.

 

[Ravellion]

Well, Plots & Places and Rogue's Gallery are both really for discussing topics that only apply to DMs. You could combine them into a DM forum. This might or might not include house rules. Since many of us who DM know some of our players read these boards from time to time, it might be nice to put all DM related stuff into one place, so we could warn our players to just stay out of that forum. I don't have any great attachment to this idea, it's just off the top of my head.

Ooooh! Me like!

I don't play any of the previous editions, but I do think it might be nice to have a forum for them. You could either put it in the D&D/D20 section, or change the name of that one to D&D3E/D20 and put the previous edition forum in Bits & Pieces, for which there might be a better name. Miscellany, for example.

Nah, I think all games should be discussable in the same forums. Wher would you draw the line? What about everquest which is more or less d20? General RPG is fine IMHO. Just make sure you post in the subject line if it's not 3e. It is a D&D/d20 site after all, so having general RPG not include d20 games would be silly.

Rav

 

[arwink]

I don't think any of the real Hivemind people want their own Forum. PC asked them to limitit to three threads and they have done so willingly. So, I don't really think this is an issue.

I'd agree with that. Three threads of silliness/randomness is more than enough. I usually only pay attention to two at a time unless there's not much else happening on the boards. An entire forum of such threads doesn't really seem like a great idea.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Yeah, hivemind forum not needed at all.

 

[Umbran]

...however I would not mind getting rid of all the OT in general and combining that with hivemind et all, into another forum.

Well, there's been a long-standing policy - there will be no OT forum. And I think it's a good one.

It is a good thing to leven the general discussion with some other things that are of interest, but not strictly on-topic. It keeps the intellectual environment a little more light and lively, IMHO.