2024-08-01 Where to look online for RPG conversation?
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This is a reaction to a post by the same title on the Grumpy Wizard
blog. I know where I get my conversation in any case. But all the
points the Grumpy Wizard makes need to be considered. I don’t care
about D&D and Pathfinder. I don’t even care for the old editions. If
at all, I care about the problems you ran into and your solutions at
the table: techniques, procedures, house rules.

I also don’t care for product announcements or read-through reviews. I
also don’t care about the details of session reports. I care about the
in-between: what have you used or made for use at the table, what can
you say about it, did it work, what would do differently.

Given these peculiarities, I find my conversation on Discord – on
small servers with a dozen active people, no more, and we mostly care
about the games we play with each other; or on the fediverse with an
account that follows a lot of people from tabletop.social and
dice.camp (or rollenspiel.social and pnpde.social, if you speak
German). These sites are all a bit like early Twitter except you can
follow people on compatible servers, too.

There are similar sites that are bit a like Reddit, but you can also
follow people on other servers – but I was never very active on Reddit
and so they don’t appeal much to me.

I guess if I were to look for forums, I’d go back to old haunts: EN
World, ODD74, or whatever flavour you preferred back then.

Anyway, when I post stuff that got started because of something I
heard or somebody I spoke to, I try to link to their social media
profiles or blogs so that you can check them out and maybe follow
them, too.

I sometimes wish there was more conversation to be found on IRC and
Usenet. But that basically requires people love both role-playing
games and old tech. It’s rare.

And then there’s what the Grumpy Wizard also said: So many things have
been discussed for so long, I just don’t care about the conversation
any more. Ascending or descending armour class? 6 mile hex? I no
longer care.

I guess I’m still into blogs. 😄

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