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:
- OP post with a question or idea;
- Folks would build on / hash out said idea in the comments;
- 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!