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This is here for some discussion about the direction of this subforum.
For starters: what level of granularity would be good? I just locked a 40k thread about a Forgeworld release, since that kinda felt too limited and had already been mentioned (and splooged over) in the big 40k thread.
But some topics are clearly to big and/or awesome to be contained in a single thread. D&D/d20 is the obvious example here, what with its myriad different campaign settings.
For starters: what level of granularity would be good? I just locked a 40k thread about a Forgeworld release, since that kinda felt too limited and had already been mentioned (and splooged over) in the big 40k thread.
But some topics are clearly to big and/or awesome to be contained in a single thread. D&D/d20 is the obvious example here, what with its myriad different campaign settings.
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Personally, I am of the mindset that each game should get its own thread, and its own news should stay in that. News posts should be about new/upcoming games, announcements, or those "earth-shattering" kind of things that really don't happen as often in the tabletop universe. Conventions should also get their own threads. Now, this does leave some ambiguity -- Is D20 considered a game, or is it D&D and all its offshoots? And what about all the different campaigns for D&D? ... Well, D&D is just a mess. =P
As I said in a recent PM, I see this forum being a place with fewer threads and more posts -- hence why Captain K put the image limiter in place already. But for the most part, my opinions are illustrated above.
I don't think I want to go quite as hardcore with the original post requirements as we do in D&D, but somewhere roughly in-between where D&D and SE++ are, leaning a little more towards D&D would be good.
Except me. Because I'm supposed to ruin peoples' fun.
Though, I could ban you too, if you really wanted.
I really think it should be mod discretion, supposing that the mods act reasonably. Some topics may deserve to be outside the scope of megathreads.
Big threads are rather intimidating to read through, and somebody who wants to talk about one thing may not want to read through the whole thread just to see if something was mentioned.
Not to say that one big thread on various subjects wouldn't be nice- there are some things you want to discuss about a game that don't deserve an entire thread. And cluttering the board with one-page threads sucks. But if you fit everything about the game into one thread, it becomes a bit long and tangents that really could be an entire thread could derail other discussions.
For instance... we wouldn't lock a thread about Mario 64 to go in a Nintendo 64 megathread..
my 2 cents.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
And you can google for advice instead of asking people on the forum. But converstation can be rather stymied.
Thoughts?
I didn't imply that everything has already been posted and thus there is no reason to post it. I meant that if people would take 20 seconds to search to see if what they're about to post or ask has already been done.
Take the Deathkorps thread. There was no need for it. It was in the megathread. All the poster would've had to do was search and then bump the announcement with something along the lines of "If everybody hasn't already seen this yet, they should." Or something along those lines.
Also, the megathread is there for advice.
Also, let's not debate the merits of megathreads in here. Suffice to say that I, personally, intend to strictly enforce the rules against thread assassination.
As an example, I knew I'd seen a thread on "homebrew" D&D settings, and went looking for it this afternoon to look for some feedback on a setting I'm designing. It was near the bottom of the page, so all was good... but if I'd waited until tomorrow to look for it, it might have been on page 2. If I'd not known it was there to look for, I might have started a new thread.
Now, is that type of thing worth a sticky? It's something that might fall off of a page, due to not being touched for a while, but at the same time useful to someone just finding the forums (if nothing else, you can learn a lot reading suggestions made to other people). But if it is worth a sticky, then what else is? Where can we draw the line that useful stuff gets stickied but we don't end up with a half page or more of stickies? Maybe an index post stickied with a list of useful threads?
Also, thanatos. I'm not saying there should only be megathreads and nothing else. There are plenty of reasons to make new threads, but people need to use common sense. Theres a big difference between a 'Hey guyz new modal iz cool' and 'Let's discuss Strategies for taking on Eldar'.
Agreed. We are kinda holding ourselves to a "role" player and not a "roll" player standard (no offense board and card and wargamers, I'm using it as a point =P )...
We should be expected that if we are gonna make a new thread, it should have content behind it. Not volumes and volumes, mind you, but not just a link.
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Like that chess thread I tried in G&T?
Or a roleplaying game?
Are those out?
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It seems to me that traditionally, currently active games detailed in threads are marked with a [Game On] in the thread title, and ones that just discuss game systems do not.
I don't see any reason to buck the status quo on that.
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In Graphic Violence there is one big thread to ask all sorts of questions. These are anything really, such as "Why did Aunt May marry Doctor Octopus?" or "Is the JLA/Avengers crossover considered canon/in continuity?". These are questions which are generally solvable, easy, and narrow in purpose.
The jist of it is:
I think we should have a sort of " Ask Whippy! (Or whoever really)" here as well.
Also, being the anal-retentive one that I am, I think we need at least two other stickies.
A tools thread. There will be a bunch of links to free and unlicensed tools and resources for DM and players alike. First post is D20, second is Games Workshop stuff, third is Magic, etc etc.
Also a "So you want to play [game]?" thread for the big three. Something akin to the "So you want to start reading X-Men?" thread in GV. It will a thread that provides new players with everything they need to get started on each game. It's up to the higher powers as to which games warrent their own stickies.
edit: I'll start working on those.
I'm wondering with regards to miniature gaming, whether or not personal threads should be the norm or not. Something like when Jamsessionein was doing his Stomper Gargant project seems like it should have it's own thread here. I'd like to know what other people think about it.
Personally I think people should be able to have their own threads for more larger projects, such as a whole army. While we also have the current painting showcase thread for more one off stuff.
Although I'd like to make a general painting/conversion help/techniques and discussion thread, I'm unsure though if this could be something incorporated into the "show off your painting" broadening it a bit into a more general purpose thread.
We need to find a balance if we're going to keep the megathread format. A general discussion thread for each of the various game systems is important, but it kinda negates the purpose of a sub forum if we stuff everything into a couple of threads.
[spoiler:300616be04]Okay, your idea is better then mine.[/spoiler:300616be04]
We should have it called "Ask a GM (or anyone who argues with a GM)"
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I think a thread about Forgeworld releases in general is adequate.
I've actually been working on that the past few days, and wondering if I could get away with a thread on it.
As I said, this I wholeheartedly support. But we need a better term than "chat" thread.
Advice thread, perhaps?