Hey all!
We are happy to announce the grand opening of our first Official /c/dnd Networked Communities!
Some of you may have already noticed the links in the sidebar as they have been soft launched for a few days to set up their rules and welcome posts.
- A community for Dungeons and Dragons Art posts, both OC and linked content of other artists both official and unofficial.
- A community for discussion, questions, tools, or advice regarding being a Dungeon Master (or Game Master) for Dungeons and Dragons or RPG’s in general
created by @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world and officially brought into our network
- A community to share and workshop your DnD homebrew. Feats, classes, subclasses, races, items, pretty much everything is welcome.
- A community for Dungeons and Dragons Memes and Comics
- A community for the discussion of the use of Artificial Intelligence when playing Dungeons and Dragons.
- A community for those looking for a group to play DnD with.
The reason for networking these communities together is that we can keep them in the same general style, have the same rules, and coordinated moderation across each community.
Please read the sidebar of each individual community! As always we will keep allowing regular posting here at DnD and will be guiding users in the comments to where their post may be a better fit.
We will be adding additional communities as needed and if any users have ideas for communities let us know.
I'm wary of putting all eggs under just one set of admins, on one server.
Star Trek did it. It's great to have a single dedicated spot. It's better to unify as we start up then split.
I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying it shouldn't be done.
We just saw lemmy.world collapse in ruin from a hack, for example. It came back quickly, but if it hadn't and all of the TTRPG communities had been there it would have been quite a mess to recover from.
I think it's ok to have themed instances. People are still free to create communities on other ones, even if they're similar topics. No one is saying ALL ttrpg has to be ONLY one roof. I help admin an instance that's devoted only to sci-fi and fantasy communities (any media) but only those themes. Some of the communities we have also exist elsewhere and that's the great thing about the fediverse.
That was what I interpreted dumbles' objection to be, he didn't like that these communities weren't on TTRPG.network.
To be clear, I'm not opposed to "themed" instances. I just don't think it's bad to have communities scattered around on other instances as well as that.
people are free to go to these places and make their own communities. It wont be me as I am here on .world and as stated above !dnd has been on .world before ttrpg network existed
Ah yeah, that makes sense.