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zedecksiew
@zedecksiew

Enjoying my time here, so far. It feels nice? There is a frontiersy, untamed air.

In terms of how a TTRPG community could use this space:

I like how some folks have been using it to pose design questions and muse over unfinished ideas. These invite comments that respond and muse about the OP idea, extending it into wild tangents.

Some example chains I have personally responded to:

@ian- 's Knight School pun resulted in @noise musing about playing knights that carry around their "knightly virtues" like a kind of mental / spiritual inventory:

be I a DM for the Knights in this situation I'd made it so that the physical inventory is not really important – because I don't recall in knightly literature a knight being halted on their quest by the lack of prepackaged rope or torches, all Knights in this setup are supposed to have all inventory necessary (be it a lance they carry themselves or said rope, tucked away by the squire). It would be interesting to assume that the method of solving a problem is a creative combination of Lessons We Took With Us (from Knightly School).

Or @annabelle-lee figuring out the best way to do Dreamlands in RPGS:

My experience in playing through a few of people's dreamworlds where anything can happen has been mostly bad, because it's hard for all the players to understand the physical space that they are in, and frustrating to try to interact with a world that doesn't respond in a sensible way.

Basically giving me a blogpost's worth of stuff to think on.

The way OP posts appear; the way comments are handled (longer wordcount; no "likes", so the only way to feel like you are participating is to participate)---seems to invite actual conversation?

It reminds me a little about how stuff used to occur in G+'s heyday:

  1. OP post with a question or idea;
  2. Folks would build on / hash out said idea in the comments;
  3. Somebody would post a new OP post, inspired by something in said comments.

A kind of communal blog, maybe? Something that neither Discord (an IRC window where conversations roll endlessly away from you) or Twitter (where threads are basically TED talks) ever could be.

A place to figure out questions, and talk minutiae, and first-draft ideas. A salon and workshop, not a marketplace.


What cool conversations have you seen on here? I wanna see I wanna see!


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in reply to @zedecksiew's post:

Such back-and-forth was one of the very good things that existed on G+ I don't see anywhere else. But so far aside of abovementioned already not much yet, but I do really hope that it will happen. (Ian- has an interesting idea about reversing the miniature-to-freeflow dynamic in some storygames, and I wish I had something useful to say but I don't.)

I am curious what will come up here. In theory you can do all of this with straight up blogs as well, but there is just enough friction it never seems to happen.

Notifications tying all the action together in one place is the other big key G+ had going for it, and this place as well. In theory: will I get notified about more comments on this post? That is probably the most useful thing you can do to encourage conversation.

I don't hate them, but it would be nice to have an option to set the cohost post to a ribbon comments, use @name to reply to a specific person and then everybody in it will get notifications of a new post, even if the post wasn't for them.

Not mentioning that if the discussion is really gets going, you'd have eventually to "carriage return" new replies to the left of comment block because the new replies will be very narrow and long when pressed against the right side.

I've noticed a couple situations that lack notifications that g+ had: I didn't get notified I was tagged (which is not the worst thing) and you don't get notifications for other replies to someone else's post if they aren't threaded from yours. Certainly not deal breakers, and a big step up from Tumblr / twitter

Alright, I’m in! Just posted (chosted?) a post (chost?) with lots of room for folks to lob ideas. I’d love for a community with these values to actually form around here.