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A GM community forum.

A public forum for the concerns and the tips and tricks of the GMing craft for all of roll20 to see. Until then there's <a href="https://app.roll20.net/join/234079/mWjvWw" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/join/234079/mWjvWw</a> if that doesn't work: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/9618/gm-academy" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/9618/gm-academy</a> Currently the GM Academy doesn't have any topics that would be out of place if moved to <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/19" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/19</a> or <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/20977" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/20977</a> or <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/20" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/20</a> or <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/22" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/22</a> My main object to the campaign is its barrier to entry and thus selective exclusive secretive nature. It is my opinion and assertion that a GMing specific roll20 main forum would serve the purpose of the campaign better. I also believe it would serve the intended audience, all users of roll20 that want to GMs or want to be better GMs, more efficiently.
Or we could start a secret society of GMs and take over the world! Mwahahahahahaha!
We'll certainly consider it. Although as you said, I think a lot of those posts would be just fine under "General On-Topic."
and the notifications. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/notificat" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/459488/notificat</a>... <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/415663/a-way-to-" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/415663/a-way-to-</a>... make using that non-gameplay campaign a pain looking for the needles in the haystack that is every individual post as a separate notification.
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Riley D. said: We'll certainly consider it. Although as you said, I think a lot of those posts would be just fine under "General On-Topic." While It's certainly true that they could go there, the kinds of people who are going to be looking at a forum named for gm issues/discussion/whatever is going to be a narrow subset of the community; namely those interested in talking to GM's and discussing their experiences to help/learn from each other. The first page on the GM academy campaign forum is mostly stickies, but hit view all posts & things change wildly Combat & Roleplaying : It's an interesting thread (quite), but even a small percentage of the posts from player perspectives would have made it far less interesting & useful to a GM asking other GM's by adding noise and potentially dragging the topic off course. It's not too common that you find GM's without experience as a player who can't easily put themself/a responsive friend willing to answer questions into the perspective of a player Player Character Death :It's not really relevant how players think their GM deals with it using their perspective as a player. "the last time my character got killed..." and "my gm did xyz, was he wrong?" would just be a waste in the context of that thread so on & so forth Compare that to General on-topic where the posts are all over the place... Truthfully, the signal/noise ratio is too low to make it an interesting conversational forum rather than its current "don't want to post your roll20 how to question in specific use? Not sure if it's a bug report , or suggestion that includes a P.S question asking if others agree? selling , announcing , want , some new pack? does the proper forum move too fast ? Not sure if it belongs in api or specific use? who cares! dump it here!" Without even having to hit next, that gives one or more threads where a reasonable case can be made for why it should be in some other forum for every forum save mentors. It's just too " general". I can understand the desire to avoid creating too many forums that get no/little use as a result, but take the prime example of the LFG forum where you can go back for three pages before seeing anything a week old. Player LFG for [system/anything]: ....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|.. GM looking for player(s)/interest/etc: ...|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|.. player/possible gm looking for counterpart(s): . confusion/unexplained looking for mind reader(s)???: .. ?? looking for pickup game now/soon: ....|. group looking for GM: .... something face to face: .. I can't read that language: .. I quit counting because the first page looked to have a lot of threads that were reposts. With over 40 posts for gm LFP & the same for player LFG, It's hard to argue that those two should not be split into seperate subforums. Considering that Page 1 goes back to "Yesterday", there is little doubt that some kind of split is more than reasonably justified. Pickup games & established/friendly group looking for GM might be close runner ups too, but it's hard to tell given the extreme speed & amount of first page of "L@@Kfirstpage" threads escaping page2 (basically) over & over again.
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I tend to agree with James here. I'm mostly looking at the forums in the GM Academy (well first reason is that I'm not really interested in the technical side of things which are most threads here) and not the threads in the general forums. I try to take a look though but most of what interests me is there. I would be all for creating a new part of the forum for GMs instead, but I would be completely against fusing it and throwing it back in On-topic or Off-topic forums (for the reasons James wrote: too much turn-over, it would be lost in the multiple threads opened by everyone, etc.)