So... How we doin?

[B00tDisk]

I'm very much in the same boat.  I care more about vintage Dungeons & Dragons (rules, miniatures, adventures) than I do computers anymore.  I look at the crop of current PC games that are all rubber-stamp copies of one another and just shake my head.  I have no reason to rush out and buy another 16gb of RAM, the 16 I have in my system currently will do.  I've got 10tb of hard drive space (internal and external), a six core 3.0ghz CPU, and a 760ti video card.  Honestly, there's nothing out there I want or need software wise.  This machine will last a long, long time.

I'd rather paint up the shelves of monsters and adventurers and space marines and tau and learn to use my new airbrush than fart around with computers as a hobby any more.  Oh, if I saw an A2000 or A4000 at a garage sale or thrift store or something I'd be as happy as a clam but day-to-day?  Eh, it's for internet stuff...mostly looking up paint schemes for minis

[B00tDisk]

Hahaha.  I still... To this day... can't figure out what to do with my dndplayer.com domain name that I've owned for like 20 years now..

Wayne

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Gimme admin rights, let me set up some D&D stuff on it

[B00tDisk]

Tis true. People are playing board and RPG games more now. I'm done with all that, but plenty of people still haven't even tried them.

I guess people are playing more of all types of games now, rather than a general switch from one to another.

Marketing a web domain successfully is not easy, I wish luck on anybody that tries that, successful or not. Now seems one of the better times to try.

The industry of pen and paper RPGs isn't what it used to be in the late 70s through the late 90s, but the hobby is doing good.  I can set up a game in a local comic/game store and always fill up the table.

[B00tDisk]

I guess in this day and age you could video conference paper RPG.

Ref makes all the dice rolls though, in plain sight.

Nah, for that you use roll20.net - virtual map, virtual dice, built in video and voice conference, support modules for most popular RPGs from all eras, counters/"miniatures"...or use Tabletop Simulator, an app you can get on Steam.

[B00tDisk]

Should be VR table top gaming these days.  

One step ahead of ya!  Tabletop Simulator + Oculus Rift.

[B00tDisk]

Since I joined the Apollo team I demoed a Vampire 500 at Amiwest last year.  I am coding in Hollywood 6.1 making a code editor for all the platforms it supports.  It's a pity that I had to send Kipper his V500 card back.

If working at an IT company makes you feel like leaving Amigas alone I don't feel bad about being a janitor so much.

Hey if an A2000 was gifted to me, I'd definitely treat her right.  Vampire, HD, video card, the works

[B00tDisk]

If you're serious, I'll see about hooking up my spare copy of Xenforo to it next week when I get back.  Anyone else "game"?

Wayne

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Drop me an email; bsilvey@gmail.com

[B00tDisk]

Sorry I haven't replied.  Work has been crazy this week, but this hasn't been forgotten..

Wayne

No worries; I saw your email and will respond.

[B00tDisk]

Thanks for the replies guys.  I realize that asking "are forums dead" here is about like asking an aquarium fish how they like the ocean, but I'm just trying to imagine what could be done.  

I *could* just put up a clickbait site and work to hit critical mass, but that's a lot of work.  What I'm hoping to do is to find a way to actually have fun with the Internet again...

My real options for dndplayer.com seem to be to put up another forum (Xenforo) or to put up a Social Media site using SocialEngine which would be more akin to Facebook meets (whatever is out there)

(check socialengine.com)

I have spare licenses of each, so it's not a matter of money as much as a matter of direction...

I'm also not really a D&D player (as much as I would truly like to be) so whatever direction I go in, maybe I can find someone who's interested in the admin side but not the hosting/techy stuff.

Wayne

Well, you're in luck; right now Wizards of the Coast (the owners of D&D; they bought all TSR's intellectual property in 1997 or so) is being very not-aggressive as far as going after community creations.

I say, start it, slap a few different "edition" forums (original D&D, AD&D 1e, 2e, D&D3rd, 4th, 5th, Basic D&D) and see what happens.  Hit the usual suspects (various D&D facebook groups and other webforums) and lightly advertise with the permission of the PTB on those fora, and see if you can build a critical mass.

As far as community admins and such, I'd throw my hat into the ring for Original D&D and AD&D1.