This is about the realization that these forums are also WotC forums. I’ve been a customer for a while and mostly didn’t interact here. I have heard good things bout the forums here.
Back "in the day" (by which I mean the early-mid 00s) I was a regular on WotC's official D&D forums. They were well organized and moderated in a way that was both helpful and encouraging to the community. When I came back to the hobby after a long time away last year the literal first place I tried to go was those forums only to learn they had ceased to exist. The Beyond forums don't seem quite the same but I'm probably also looking through a nostalgia filter and they're easily the best boards I'm immediately aware of for general D&D related content.
Of course now I'm bracing for the unending flood of demands for free digital content from people who assume that it takes zero time, effort, or investment to produce and maintain and generally have no clue how the publishing industry (both digital and physical) actually works. Still, I would like to see these boards officially integrated and even expanded into a "proper" official forum for all things D&D.
Back "in the day" (by which I mean the early-mid 00s) I was a regular on WotC's official D&D forums. They were well organized and moderated in a way that was both helpful and encouraging to the community. When I came back to the hobby after a long time away last year the literal first place I tried to go was those forums only to learn they had ceased to exist. The Beyond forums don't seem quite the same but I'm probably also looking through a nostalgia filter and they're easily the best boards I'm immediately aware of for general D&D related content.
Tell me more about these forums compared to the WotC ones of old. Do you think these could grow to be them?
Back "in the day" (by which I mean the early-mid 00s) I was a regular on WotC's official D&D forums. They were well organized and moderated in a way that was both helpful and encouraging to the community. When I came back to the hobby after a long time away last year the literal first place I tried to go was those forums only to learn they had ceased to exist. The Beyond forums don't seem quite the same but I'm probably also looking through a nostalgia filter and they're easily the best boards I'm immediately aware of for general D&D related content.
Tell me more about these forums compared to the WotC ones of old. Do you think these could grow to be them?
Highly unlikely, The old WotC forums were huge, covering every game that they were making at the time, which was a much larger catalogue than it is today: WotC no longer has the license to produce Star Wars games and isn't producing a collectible minis game anymore, just to name a couple things no longer around. On top of that, the heyday of the internet message forum seems to have come and gone, as discord servers and social media platforms have taken up a lot of what forums used to do.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Back "in the day" (by which I mean the early-mid 00s) I was a regular on WotC's official D&D forums. They were well organized and moderated in a way that was both helpful and encouraging to the community. When I came back to the hobby after a long time away last year the literal first place I tried to go was those forums only to learn they had ceased to exist. The Beyond forums don't seem quite the same but I'm probably also looking through a nostalgia filter and they're easily the best boards I'm immediately aware of for general D&D related content.
Tell me more about these forums compared to the WotC ones of old. Do you think these could grow to be them?
Highly unlikely, The old WotC forums were huge, covering every game that they were making at the time, which was a much larger catalogue than it is today: WotC no longer has the license to produce Star Wars games and isn't producing a collectible minis game anymore, just to name a couple things no longer around. On top of that, the heyday of the internet message forum seems to have come and gone, as discord servers and social media platforms have taken up a lot of what forums used to do.
It also needed to cover the Living Greyhawk event. I'm still mad at myself I missed all that as I wasn't paying attention to DnD at the time.
Look, it's not technically the Wizards of the Coast forums... But we *are* an official part of the Wizards family. 😉
Hmm...interesting that you use the present tense ;)
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If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
On top of that, the heyday of the internet message forum seems to have come and gone, as discord servers and social media platforms have taken up a lot of what forums used to do.
These forums are still associated with DDB the service, not with D&D as a whole. Large companies traditionally strongly dislike giving their customers direct communications lines - it's bad for PR to let customers learn that other customers aren't deliriously happy with the product/service.
This place will never be "the official forums" for D&D. At the very most, Mellie's reports on general forum trends will actually reach Wizards, but they'll still never directly monitor this place or listen to any of us. Why would they? We're DDB's problem, not Wizards', and they actively diswant any sort of customer feedback that isn't just aggregate numbers stripped of words and meaning.
The merger means WotC has official forums again!
They can't deny it fast enough.
So with the merger any chance we can free digital copies of our books with the physical one?
Can I get a coupon for a physical copy to go with my dndbeyond purchases?
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This is about the realization that these forums are also WotC forums. I’ve been a customer for a while and mostly didn’t interact here. I have heard good things bout the forums here.
Back "in the day" (by which I mean the early-mid 00s) I was a regular on WotC's official D&D forums. They were well organized and moderated in a way that was both helpful and encouraging to the community. When I came back to the hobby after a long time away last year the literal first place I tried to go was those forums only to learn they had ceased to exist. The Beyond forums don't seem quite the same but I'm probably also looking through a nostalgia filter and they're easily the best boards I'm immediately aware of for general D&D related content.
Of course now I'm bracing for the unending flood of demands for free digital content from people who assume that it takes zero time, effort, or investment to produce and maintain and generally have no clue how the publishing industry (both digital and physical) actually works. Still, I would like to see these boards officially integrated and even expanded into a "proper" official forum for all things D&D.
Tell me more about these forums compared to the WotC ones of old. Do you think these could grow to be them?
Highly unlikely, The old WotC forums were huge, covering every game that they were making at the time, which was a much larger catalogue than it is today: WotC no longer has the license to produce Star Wars games and isn't producing a collectible minis game anymore, just to name a couple things no longer around. On top of that, the heyday of the internet message forum seems to have come and gone, as discord servers and social media platforms have taken up a lot of what forums used to do.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
It also needed to cover the Living Greyhawk event. I'm still mad at myself I missed all that as I wasn't paying attention to DnD at the time.
Look, it's not technically the Wizards of the Coast forums... But we *are* an official part of the Wizards family. 😉
Hmm...interesting that you use the present tense ;)
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
Reddit looks a lot like the old forums to me.
These forums are still associated with DDB the service, not with D&D as a whole. Large companies traditionally strongly dislike giving their customers direct communications lines - it's bad for PR to let customers learn that other customers aren't deliriously happy with the product/service.
This place will never be "the official forums" for D&D. At the very most, Mellie's reports on general forum trends will actually reach Wizards, but they'll still never directly monitor this place or listen to any of us. Why would they? We're DDB's problem, not Wizards', and they actively diswant any sort of customer feedback that isn't just aggregate numbers stripped of words and meaning.
Please do not contact or message me.
Congrats! I bet it's fun saying "The Offical Wizards of the Coast Dungeons and Dragons"