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I took a long hiatus from gaming due to a combination of real life factors. Now that my work situation has stabilized and my kid is off to college I’ve been thinking about gaming again.

Previously my groups were all solidly 3E or Pathfinder, but I find myself more interested in different systems these days.

I used to hang out quite a bit on ENWorld, but these days it truly seems a D&D site.

I tried RPG.net. The heavy handed, toxic, nannyish moderation on that place pushed me away almost immediately. Some knowledgeable people on that site, but the moderators are out of control.

I was on /rpg reading a thread about some poor guy who had questions about game, was directed to post in a couple places, then suddenly found himself banned from RPG.net and then Reddit when a RPG.net mod also happened to be a Reddit mod.

A subthread in that rolling train wreck mentioned other options for sites, and I saw a mention for RPGpub. And here I am!
 
I came back because I chilled the hell out. My meltdown (which thankfully seems to have gone unnoticed around these parts) was well-timed. The source of my angst turned out to have been an actual AWFUL person and got ousted in the community. So I felt it was time, now that the dust has settled, to come back to a community.

Hopefully I won't be an ass again. I don't want to be, I'm a genuinely nice person in real life (or at least I try to be: nobody is perfect). The internet does not have much nuance.
 
I came back because I chilled the hell out. My meltdown (which thankfully seems to have gone unnoticed around these parts) was well-timed. The source of my angst turned out to have been an actual AWFUL person and got ousted in the community. So I felt it was time, now that the dust has settled, to come back to a community.

Hopefully I won't be an ass again. I don't want to be, I'm a genuinely nice person in real life (or at least I try to be: nobody is perfect). The internet does not have much nuance.
If you had to lose you patience with someone, that was a pretty good choice. The forum as a whole collectively lost their patience with that guy a couple of weeks before the big story broke. I don't think anyone here is going to hold that one against you.
 
If something is bothering anyone about particular people or topics or situations here, our doors are always open. Don't ever feel that you are alone here. Send any or all of us (Tristram, Baulderstone, Apparition and I) a private message and we might be able to help you out.
 
It is frustrating, though, to have to take Bunch Bunch off Ignore to see what I'm missing in a conversation like this. :hehe:
Ok I accept the Dumarest challenge! Put him on ignore for a week and see what the forum is like!
 
My case is likely unique. I'm particularly thin-skinned when it comes to having my careless comments challenged and taken apart by successful RPG publishers, writers and designers. I have a feeling that there aren't many people reluctant to speak out to the admins like I am.
 
My case is likely unique. I'm particularly thin-skinned when it comes to having my careless comments challenged and taken apart by successful RPG publishers, writers and designers. I have a feeling that there aren't many people reluctant to speak out to the admins like I am.


I find it helps to picture everyone on the other side of the screen as muppets

(changed my avatar to help with that)
 
I came back because I chilled the hell out. My meltdown (which thankfully seems to have gone unnoticed around these parts) was well-timed. The source of my angst turned out to have been an actual AWFUL person and got ousted in the community. So I felt it was time, now that the dust has settled, to come back to a community.

Hopefully I won't be an ass again. I don't want to be, I'm a genuinely nice person in real life (or at least I try to be: nobody is perfect). The internet does not have much nuance.
If that certain someone had a crazy half shaved head... Im pretty sure you are good. So much going on at that time that any bad post from you was a single stone in a rock slide. :smile:
 
I usually hang out on Dragonsfoot, still do, but been stalking other sites. Some I just stalk and barely post...the vibe doesn't feel right. But there is hardly any drama here...political or otherwise--at least from what I've seen. A lot of hate on individuals out there lately...some, perhaps justified, but I don't really care for drama. I can love a good, respectful argument about gaming rules, design, etc.--sometimes my opinion changes due to them--that's what I look for...but arguing and spewing hate about out-of-game stuff? no thanks. It gets exhausting seeing it everywhere.
 
I'm working on a game with no randomizers, and found this place by googling for diceless rpgs.

Interesting! Are you familiar with Theatrix? It's a diceless RPG from the 90s I was quite enamoured with
 
Interesting! Are you familiar with Theatrix? It's a diceless RPG from the 90s I was quite enamoured with


It's on my reading list, haven't gotten to it yet. I'm going for more tactical decisions (i.e. bidding + simultaneous choice, with situational advantage/disadvantage) but I figure there's probably plenty to plunder.
 
I'm here because the moderation at RPG.net has gone full-on scorched earth with its users, and theRPGSite is a literal basket of deplorables.

This place seems to talk about, you know, RPGs.

I don’t like scorched earth. It’s hard to grow grass that way and I’ve been trying to get my yard into shape for the summer.

Welcome to the Pub!
 
I don’t like scorched earth. It’s hard to grow grass that way and I’ve been trying to get my yard into shape for the summer.

Welcome to the Pub!
Scorched earth sounds like the way my garden looked last summer. I'm moving house next month (with a bit of luck), so we'll see what the garden there really looks like.
 
Despite being a socialist and old-school angry leftie, RPG.net turned me off with its constant drama and pitchforks mentality, not to mention its obvious biases regarding certain publishers (whose employees were mods). I believe that a general RPG site should be above that.

Also, as a socialist and old-school angry leftie, I sure as hell wasn't going to join therpgsite community properly, which appears to have become an Anti-RPG.net parody.

Finally, I do RPGs to get away from the Real Life dramas: "Shut up and roll the dice!"
 
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I stumbled across this place by accident while looking for 5e and OSR discussions. I read some threads and was impressed with the good humor and politeness even with contentious topics or people trying to stir up trouble.

I have pawed around on the other big RPG sites. There are some very smart people on those sites but they are often humorless or mean-spirited, passive-aggressively bullying people for holding the wrong opinions.

I appreciate the no politics rule.
 
I walked away from rpg.net in disgust somewhere around 2014. I probably don't need to explain why, around here. Reassigned my account to a burner email, scrambled my rpg.net password, then scrambled the burner email password.

Lurked a bit at theRPGsite, but only in certain threads about specific games, and only for short periods at a time. Because...well, damn.

I don't actually remember how I found this place. I actually made an account almost two years ago. I haven't posted since then because, well, I've been pretty leery of RPG forums for about half a decade now. The main lesson I took away about the online RPG community from observing GamerGate and the fallout years after was that apparently, there wasn't an online RPG community, really.

But I miss chatting about games. I miss being in the loop about new and upcoming releases. This place seems calm, and prone to discussing games and not fighting crusades all the goddamn time. Seems low drama, and that's definitely appealing to me in an RPG forum nowadays. Maybe I'll try and post more often from now on.
 
Now prove you're not a goose.

That's going to be a bit difficult, as I spent six years deep undercover infiltrating the geese on behalf of the crows. Parts of the paper trail might still be out there. Still, I was instrumental in making sure the Crow Intelligence Service secured the largest part of the bounty at the Great Bread Throwing at the Park Pond of 2009.
 
That's going to be a bit difficult, as I spent six years deep undercover infiltrating the geese on behalf of the crows. Parts of the paper trail might still be out there. Still, I was instrumental in making sure the Crow Intelligence Service secured the largest part of the bounty at the Great Bread Throwing at the Park Pond of 2009.
His story checks out. He's cool
 
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