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Updated forum structure
Hi everyone,
With the DCC RPG core book getting closer and closer, the various sub-forums related to beta rules feedback aren't quite appropriate anymore as forum titles. After all, the beta will be "old news" very soon. I'd still like to retain the posts for posterity (and because many of them also made for very interesting conversation), but we need some new forums to reflect the "final" rules and comments that will come from that.
What I'm leaning toward right now is consolidating the various playtest forums into a single "Archived Playtest Commentary" section (which would be locked but available for access), then creating new forums for active play. They would probably be:
Character Discussion
Rules Questions
Magic and Spells
Judging Discussion (including monsters, adventures, etc.)
Does anyone have thoughts on this? Any other forums you think we'll need, or anything else?
Thanks,
Joseph
With the DCC RPG core book getting closer and closer, the various sub-forums related to beta rules feedback aren't quite appropriate anymore as forum titles. After all, the beta will be "old news" very soon. I'd still like to retain the posts for posterity (and because many of them also made for very interesting conversation), but we need some new forums to reflect the "final" rules and comments that will come from that.
What I'm leaning toward right now is consolidating the various playtest forums into a single "Archived Playtest Commentary" section (which would be locked but available for access), then creating new forums for active play. They would probably be:
Character Discussion
Rules Questions
Magic and Spells
Judging Discussion (including monsters, adventures, etc.)
Does anyone have thoughts on this? Any other forums you think we'll need, or anything else?
Thanks,
Joseph
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Re: Updated forum structure
Maybe its already covered by the judging section, but DCC tales section may be cool (for sharing stories, discussing S&S fiction, etc.)
Also what about a PVP games section?
Also what about a PVP games section?
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Homebrew forum -- I guess that could be the Judging Discussion? An "Your own Appendix N" forum for campaign stories?goodmangames wrote:
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A game-finding forum would be nice, especially for online games. I also like the "tales" forum idea.
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I assume errata would go into a Rules Questions subforum. I'm hoping a full subforum for those will not be needed.
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Yes! No errata! Any rules clarifications, on the other hand, would be exactly what Rules Questions is for.Stainless wrote:I assume errata would go into a Rules Questions subforum. I'm hoping a full subforum for those will not be needed.
The 3PP, I assume that'll remain?
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My vote would be to leave all of the playtest sections as-is rather than consolidating them, but all moved down the boards and locked.goodmangames wrote:What I'm leaning toward right now is consolidating the various playtest forums into a single "Archived Playtest Commentary" section (which would be locked but available for access)...
1. It would be easier for a moderator to move the boards without having to move all those individual threads.
2. It would be easier for a reader to find an old thread if interested, since they would be grouped in the same way that they are grouped now.
I just think that taking all of the threads and tossing them into one pot makes them nearly worthless. WotC did that with their "Old and Out of Print" sections (I made up the title, but that's what it's for) and combined OD&D, AD&D, 2E and a whole pile of 3E boards into one spot. Good luck finding anything there.
Anyway, just one guy's opinion.
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Good choices, overall.goodmangames wrote:Character Discussion
Rules Questions
Magic and Spells
Judging Discussion (including monsters, adventures, etc.)
1. I'd like a new "DCC General" section. Archive the old one and start a new one.
2. The idea of a "Tales" section is good. Perhaps that can be combined with "Finding Players" and just called "Community"
3. We need to continue with the DCC 3PP forum so that folks can continue a shout-out about their products. (The current one is fine, actually. No need to archive it.)
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Re: Updated forum structure
I was thinking recently it might cool to have an Appendix N section for talking about cool old stuff, not just as it applies to DCC RPG.
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Oh, +1 to this as long as there are limits.mythfish wrote:I was thinking recently it might cool to have an Appendix N section for talking about cool old stuff, not just as it applies to DCC RPG.
I'd like to keep conversation to actual Appendix N literature, not funky new stuff where some guy says "this is just like it" only it isn't.
I haven't found much written after the 1970's that even comes close to the feel of the old pulps. Even authors like Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock wrote great stuff "in the day" and it got worse in the 1980's.
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Where do we see conversion notes fitting in? Although DCC RPG will be supported by purpose-written modules, there will be many who would like to convert past D&D modules or just convert some favourite critters, etc. Guidance, examples, fully worked out adventures, etc.; Should they have their own forum or be scattered as appropriate?
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That's right. For me, only the first seven published Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories and the first five Elric stories are canonical.finarvyn wrote:Even authors like Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock wrote great stuff "in the day" and it got worse in the 1980's.
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A great point. I can see two main options:Stainless wrote:Where do we see conversion notes fitting in? Although DCC RPG will be supported by purpose-written modules, there will be many who would like to convert past D&D modules or just convert some favourite critters, etc. Guidance, examples, fully worked out adventures, etc.; Should they have their own forum or be scattered as appropriate?
(1) There are parts of the Goodman Games board which are NOT related to DCC specifically. I assume that those sections will remain and conversions could go there.
(2) When I made my list above I'd intended to include a "workshop" section. Conversions and homebrew material could all go there.
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I haven't actually counted them the way you have, but essentially you are of the same opinion that I am; I think the earliest stories show the most "spark" and after a while the later stories seemed to be covering much the same material but with less life.Geoffrey wrote:That's right. For me, only the first seven published Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories and the first five Elric stories are canonical.finarvyn wrote:Even authors like Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock wrote great stuff "in the day" and it got worse in the 1980's.
I suspect that this is true with most authors. I don't mean to pick on Leiber and Moorcock, two of my all-time favorites. They just seemed like obvious examples.
A wonderful thing to discuss in an "Appendix N" board!
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canonical is not a word I hope to see to often around the DCC RPG! It can go with RAW and RAI IMOGeoffrey wrote:That's right. For me, only the first seven published Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories and the first five Elric stories are canonical.finarvyn wrote:Even authors like Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock wrote great stuff "in the day" and it got worse in the 1980's.
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Re: Updated forum structure
Thanks for the good suggestions. Forum structure now updated.
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Most excellent, Joseph! Your humble deputy approves of the new structure!goodmangames wrote:Thanks for the good suggestions. Forum structure now updated.
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