thats because its hard to organize and play out a campaign in a single thread
I thought this was about a tabletop discussion forum. We certainly don't need a RPG Play forum. What, we'll need subforums for every campaign now? No. Not only is it a black hole it drifts much to far from the core PA ideology (which, while including tabletop games, is MUCH more video game focused).
I was attempting to warn Jasc so he didn't get jailed since someone already was jailed once in this forum for smack-talking against AC and WB. I didn't realize that was against the rules.
I would use a PnP and Wargaming subforum and think it is a neat idea, however we currently have approximately 15,672,012 subforums and it is getting ridiculous
Anyhow, as a G&Ter who has no interest in a tabletop forum...I see no problem with having such a forum. Then again, I see no reason to make one, just yet.
You guys ever try making the kind of threads you'd make in the new forum in an existing forum? Cause I haven't seen many of them. I mean you say they fall off the first page...is it that hard to go to the second page to make a reply? I mean, give these threads a shot in G&T or SE++, and if that's a failure, then you'll have a reason for a new forum. As it stands, it seems like the argument againt using a current forum is "it is kinda inconvienent."
I sure would not mind an extra thread a day about tabletop gaming in G&T.
You mean like the WoW or CoH forums, right? Personally, I see no reason for having those forums but that's my personal opinion. This all boils down to folks' personal "vision" of the forum.
Anyhow, as a G&Ter who has no interest in a tabletop forum...I see no problem with having such a forum. Then again, I see no reason to make one, just yet.
You guys ever try making the kind of threads you'd make in the new forum in an existing forum? Cause I haven't seen many of them. I mean you say they fall off the first page...is it that hard to go to the second page to make a reply? I mean, give these threads a shot in G&T or SE++, and if that's a failure, then you'll have a reason for a new forum. As it stands, it seems like the argument againt using a current forum is "it is kinda inconvienent."
I sure would not mine an extra thread a day about tabletop gaming in G&T.
It's not even inconvenient. If you don't like looking on the second page, bookmark your thread. It's what I've done with threads I wanted to look at later. Frankly, I'd welcome some more TT game threads, as opposed to more "Best/Worst Boss/Game/Level/Song" threads.
You mean like the WoW or CoH forums, right? Personally, I see no reason for having those forums but that's my personal opinion. This all boils down to folks' personal "vision" of the forum.
Actually, the reason why we have those forums is that there'd be three to six active WoW threads in G&T, D&D and SE and it'd be a huge pain in the ass and they'd actually clog up the other forums. CoH was like that for a while and now it's just sort of there and really, it sort of makes a good bookend.
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I would use a PnP and Wargaming subforum and think it is a neat idea, however we currently have approximately 15,672,012 subforums and it is getting ridiculous
Maybe if like five or six of them were to die
The CoH/CoV subforum seems to have one foot in the grave.
Before trying to justify a PnP board, perhaps it'd make more sense to try and keep a regular tabletop meta-thread active on GnT. One pops up every once in a while, but stuff like Employee's Lounge threads see far more activity.
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I would just like to comment that, as somebody who has become more into DnD as a result of osmosis, I would not even think to look at G&T for threads on any game that is not a video game. A new subforum might be a nice place for people to congregate. If, say,it wouldn't cause an implosion.
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he even sent me a PM that was formatted to look like I had been jailed
and I was like
ok, I will leave it there for Pheezer to read it, because he really enjoys my posts
also, I don't see the point of a TT board if it wouldnt be used for conducting campaigns. Looking at it from that angle I can see how it would be worthless.
No no, I clicked on the little "jail" button after I warned you to edit your post and you didn't. I clicked said button because you were obviously trolling and didn't read one page earlier when FyreWulff was jailed for pretty much saying the same thing you did.
No no, I clicked on the little "jail" button after I warned you to edit your post and you didn't. I clicked said button because you were obviously trolling and didn't read one page earlier when FyreWulff was jailed for pretty much saying the same thing you did.
There's no "pretending" there folks.
Except for the part where you were pretending to have the authority to make use of a button that was only granted to you as a side effect to your helping run a tournament in a secret forum.
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No no, I clicked on the little "jail" button after I warned you to edit your post and you didn't. I clicked said button because you were obviously trolling and didn't read one page earlier when FyreWulff was jailed for pretty much saying the same thing you did.
I honestly can't see what all the commotion is about. It really baffles me that there is any opposition to this movement at all. There are enough non-digital gamers here that a subforum like that would be able to survive without a hitch. The only problem I can see would be appointing mods. Thats it.
I am not going to play the "Hey, theres a <blank> forum so why cant we have ours?" card because I, with all honesty, beleive that this community would flourish if given the chance to voice themselves. Is there any way the mods could put a poll up in G&T to see what the masses think? I know that most people dont frequent the monkey den.
I don't see why COH/CoV would have a forum as well, I mean, why not make a big ass topic for it too in well, Games And Technology, which it is both.
Most of the really devoted people who play CoH/CoV also post regularly in the Comic Forum, and many just post in the CoH forum exclusively.
I think that a forum like this would be quite successful, we have Magic Tournaments in SE++ every so often but they're so hard to keep going because of everything else going on, a nice little forum to do this and other things would be stellar.
"Writer's Block is more like Artist's Corner but less active, since those two are basically the same forum. And as said before, the same level of intellectual snobbery and fragile egos."
Hey, shutup.
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"Writer's Block is more like Artist's Corner but less active, since those two are basically the same forum. And as said before, the same level of intellectual snobbery and fragile egos."
"Writer's Block is more like Artist's Corner but less active, since those two are basically the same forum. And as said before, the same level of intellectual snobbery and fragile egos."
Hey, shutup.
What? I agree with that.
Seriously. If you have a complaint more specific than 'snobbery and fragile egos' then PM it to me so I can fix it.
thats a question for alphamonkey but thats a few new rows in the table for the forum itself, the threads in the forum, the posts in the thread, ect
I would think not, but I seem to remember hearing that cited as the reason.
Don't worry about technical things. The main thing is if Whippy wants to support this forum. I'm indifferent, not because I don't love you guys, but because I haven't been around as much and I trust whippy to make good descisions on things like this.
To answer those of you who question whether enough support exists for such a forum:
I was in Ventrilo the other night with about seven other people. They spent about 45 minutes discussing one aspect of someone's PnP campaign, who was trying to tweak the rules of his particular reality just right.
I know I spend a ridiculous amount of time learning everything I can about the rules of 3.5 edition D&D when I'm playing it, simply because whenever there's a rules question, everyone in my group turns and looks at me. I could talk about the nuances to the rules to just 3.5 edition D&D for at least fifty pages, and that's just me.
And pheezer, just because you aren't interested in a subject enough to talk about it substantially doesn't mean that no one else is. Contrary to your belief, the universe does not revolve around you; your ego is just massive enough that it could.
I would like to have it just to see if we could really get some MTG and D&D campaigns going.
I love MTG but only a couple of my R/L friends play it so I am limited on my competative options.
Yeah, but that's one person's worth of discussion, too. I'd definitely frequent threads about GURPS, AD&D 2.0, various White Wolf games, etc. Not to mention it would be a great place to get some games going.
If nothing else, we could have a single, consolidated "game recruitment" thread, with some hard-working forumer (or one forumer and the mods of the forum) in charge of keeping the first post updated with which games are full, looking for people, and who's playing where.
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I think that a table top gaming thread would blow the writing thread out of the water in terms of support and posting.
Okay, guys, outside of comparisons of what it's like with this discussion in G&T versus what it would be like outside of G&T, fuck the other subforums. They don't matter, we don't give a shit, stop bashing them, stop talking them up; either this idea stands on its own, or it doesn't. Bringing other subforums into it in the manner they have been isn't productive at all.
I think the most compelling argument for a Tabletop Gaming forum is that it has the potential to be incredibly interdisciplinary. A tabletop gaming could involve discussions of systems (G+T), critiques of new stories (WB), character art (AC), as well as a plethora of other discussions which may loosely fit in one of the other forums.
So, I will admit that most things one could feasibly talk about tabletop gaming fit in one of the existing forums. However, I would argue that it presents a logistical nightmare which creates a significant obstacle to giving tabletop gaming the discussion it deserves.
Imagine I'm talking about the new D&D 3.5 system in G+T, we all become good friends, decide to start a couple of D&D 3.5 games. Now, say I start a thread in G+T about some character art I'm working on. BZZZTTT. Gets moved to AC where no one gives a flying fuck. Say I start a thread about my character's backstory and ask for critiques. BZZZZTTTT. Gets moved to Writer's Block. The examples could go on and on.
Few people on these forums frequent more than one forum and fewer still frequent more than two. If you want to talk about the many varied aspects of tabletop gaming, then you theoretically would have to visit three, four, maybe five forums. No one is going to do that.
In addition, from my experience in D&D, I know that we every once in a while try to start up a TT game between the forumers. They inevitably die because it's hard to organise without a Game On thread, which we could only theoretically create in G+T, even if we have no interest in going to that forum.
In conclusion, it would be superb if there was a central place where all the people interested in tabletop gaming could go to organise, discuss, and chat about these sorts of things, free from the logistical nightmare associated with visiting several different forums in order to cover all the aspects of the game.
I think the most compelling argument for a Tabletop Gaming forum is that it has the potential to be incredibly interdisciplinary. A tabletop gaming could involve discussions of systems (G+T), critiques of new stories (WB), character art (AC), as well as a plethora of other discussions which may loosely fit in one of the other forums.
So, I will admit that most things one could feasibly talk about tabletop gaming fit in one of the existing forums. However, I would argue that it presents a logistical nightmare which creates a significant obstacle to giving tabletop gaming the discussion it deserves.
Imagine I'm talking about the new D&D 3.5 system in G+T, we all become good friends, decide to start a couple of D&D 3.5 games. Now, say I start a thread in G+T about some character art I'm working on. BZZZTTT. Gets moved to AC where no one gives a flying fuck. Say I start a thread about my character's backstory and ask for critiques. BZZZZTTTT. Gets moved to Writer's Block. The examples could go on and on.
Few people on these forums frequent more than one forum and fewer still frequent more than two. If you want to talk about the many varied aspects of tabletop gaming, then you theoretically would have to visit three, four, maybe five forums. No one is going to do that.
In addition, from my experience in D&D, I know that we every once in a while try to start up a TT game between the forumers. They inevitably die because it's hard to organise without a Game On thread, which we could only theoretically create in G+T, even if we have no interest in going to that forum.
In conclusion, it would be superb if there was a central place where all the people interested in tabletop gaming could go to organise, discuss, and chat about these sorts of things, free from the logistical nightmare associated with visiting several different forums in order to cover all the aspects of the game.
Okay, so this is a pretty great argument.
But I still highly, highly doubt it'd actually work.
Not that it's actually up to me.
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Or what?
I thought this was about a tabletop discussion forum. We certainly don't need a RPG Play forum. What, we'll need subforums for every campaign now? No. Not only is it a black hole it drifts much to far from the core PA ideology (which, while including tabletop games, is MUCH more video game focused).
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Oh like he is a real mod anyhow.
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I would use a PnP and Wargaming subforum and think it is a neat idea, however we currently have approximately 15,672,012 subforums and it is getting ridiculous
Maybe if like five or six of them were to die
Anyhow, as a G&Ter who has no interest in a tabletop forum...I see no problem with having such a forum. Then again, I see no reason to make one, just yet.
You guys ever try making the kind of threads you'd make in the new forum in an existing forum? Cause I haven't seen many of them. I mean you say they fall off the first page...is it that hard to go to the second page to make a reply? I mean, give these threads a shot in G&T or SE++, and if that's a failure, then you'll have a reason for a new forum. As it stands, it seems like the argument againt using a current forum is "it is kinda inconvienent."
I sure would not mind an extra thread a day about tabletop gaming in G&T.
It's not even inconvenient. If you don't like looking on the second page, bookmark your thread. It's what I've done with threads I wanted to look at later. Frankly, I'd welcome some more TT game threads, as opposed to more "Best/Worst Boss/Game/Level/Song" threads.
Actually, the reason why we have those forums is that there'd be three to six active WoW threads in G&T, D&D and SE and it'd be a huge pain in the ass and they'd actually clog up the other forums. CoH was like that for a while and now it's just sort of there and really, it sort of makes a good bookend.
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The CoH/CoV subforum seems to have one foot in the grave.
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and I was like
ok, I will leave it there for Pheezer to read it, because he really enjoys my posts
also, I don't see the point of a TT board if it wouldnt be used for conducting campaigns. Looking at it from that angle I can see how it would be worthless.
There's no "pretending" there folks.
Except for the part where you were pretending to have the authority to make use of a button that was only granted to you as a side effect to your helping run a tournament in a secret forum.
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you ACTUALLY tried to jail someone?
holy crap.
and... and it's not even in the battle forum?
edit: hay monkey den!
I am not going to play the "Hey, theres a <blank> forum so why cant we have ours?" card because I, with all honesty, beleive that this community would flourish if given the chance to voice themselves. Is there any way the mods could put a poll up in G&T to see what the masses think? I know that most people dont frequent the monkey den.
also, there is some sort of mantra to keep the forum as slim as possible by not creating more boards than what meet a reasonable demand
I'm with Llama's position on this. I think at least a test run wouldn't be unreasonable.
Also, this thread has been seriously derailed.
I would think not, but I seem to remember hearing that cited as the reason.
Most of the really devoted people who play CoH/CoV also post regularly in the Comic Forum, and many just post in the CoH forum exclusively.
I think that a forum like this would be quite successful, we have Magic Tournaments in SE++ every so often but they're so hard to keep going because of everything else going on, a nice little forum to do this and other things would be stellar.
Also, I think they have their own external forum.
Hey, shutup.
What? I agree with that.
I was in Ventrilo the other night with about seven other people. They spent about 45 minutes discussing one aspect of someone's PnP campaign, who was trying to tweak the rules of his particular reality just right.
I know I spend a ridiculous amount of time learning everything I can about the rules of 3.5 edition D&D when I'm playing it, simply because whenever there's a rules question, everyone in my group turns and looks at me. I could talk about the nuances to the rules to just 3.5 edition D&D for at least fifty pages, and that's just me.
And pheezer, just because you aren't interested in a subject enough to talk about it substantially doesn't mean that no one else is. Contrary to your belief, the universe does not revolve around you; your ego is just massive enough that it could.
also, don't underestimate pheezers gravitational pull
I would like to have it just to see if we could really get some MTG and D&D campaigns going.
I love MTG but only a couple of my R/L friends play it so I am limited on my competative options.
If nothing else, we could have a single, consolidated "game recruitment" thread, with some hard-working forumer (or one forumer and the mods of the forum) in charge of keeping the first post updated with which games are full, looking for people, and who's playing where.
So, I will admit that most things one could feasibly talk about tabletop gaming fit in one of the existing forums. However, I would argue that it presents a logistical nightmare which creates a significant obstacle to giving tabletop gaming the discussion it deserves.
Imagine I'm talking about the new D&D 3.5 system in G+T, we all become good friends, decide to start a couple of D&D 3.5 games. Now, say I start a thread in G+T about some character art I'm working on. BZZZTTT. Gets moved to AC where no one gives a flying fuck. Say I start a thread about my character's backstory and ask for critiques. BZZZZTTTT. Gets moved to Writer's Block. The examples could go on and on.
Few people on these forums frequent more than one forum and fewer still frequent more than two. If you want to talk about the many varied aspects of tabletop gaming, then you theoretically would have to visit three, four, maybe five forums. No one is going to do that.
In addition, from my experience in D&D, I know that we every once in a while try to start up a TT game between the forumers. They inevitably die because it's hard to organise without a Game On thread, which we could only theoretically create in G+T, even if we have no interest in going to that forum.
In conclusion, it would be superb if there was a central place where all the people interested in tabletop gaming could go to organise, discuss, and chat about these sorts of things, free from the logistical nightmare associated with visiting several different forums in order to cover all the aspects of the game.
Okay, so this is a pretty great argument.
But I still highly, highly doubt it'd actually work.
Not that it's actually up to me.
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