What with this forum slowing down and due to close soon?
I miss story-games.com… 
Where are people going for indie RPG / story-game discussion now?
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Yeah, I miss that too. Closing of that forum and Google+ were huge blows for my story games discussions and relations.
I don’t understand why people are closing larger story games forums.
https://fictioneers.net/forum started up when Story Games closed, by it died out.
I’m on the Indie RPG and Randomless Renaissance on Discord, but longer discussions aren’t really fit for that platform.
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I agree about Discord not being the best alternative. I’m still hoping that we’ll come up with something that allows for longer, preserved discussions too.
I’m on the [https://discord.com/invite/UUsy6AK](NSR (New-School Revolution) “Cauldron”) and Dungeon World Discord servers, but the fact that there is fragmentation like this is another problem - I have to try to keep up with multiple channels of conversation across multiple servers.
The Cauldron does have a Discourse-based server too: https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com. In theory, people from here could migrate there?
Thanks for the link to the Indie RPG Discord - I’m going to jump on that too.
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Consolidating around the Cauldron seems like the best route. And I know that Yochai would be glad to see some fresh energy brought to that place. I wonder if there’s a way to transfer accounts between Discourse servers, for those who’d like to make the jump.
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I own RPGnet, but for some reason discussions on story games and their design never really took off there, and instead emerged in other places. You really can’t force building a community.
If there was some interest I could revive or repurpose a sub-forum.
— Christopher Allen
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That’s really cool to hear. We definitely need a space!
That’s a great suggestion, as well. Anyone know whether this would work?
My experience is that there are a lot of places to chat in an ephemeral/social media-style way. Discord servers, Mastodon, even Slack (Paul Beakley’s Indie RPG Reading Club).
However, forums are wonderful repositories of conversations, links, discussions, and rules, in a way that non-persistent social media can’t be. So I would really like to have - and to encourage others to contribute to - a forum for people interested in non-mainstream gaming.
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Cauldron discourse is where I’ve signed up, in the hope that it might be a good place. I really miss story-games dot com too.
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Nice. The Cauldron could do with some increased activity!
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Happy to assist in any way! I doubt you can migrate ONLY accounts (backups are the whole thing).
Anyway, the Cauldron was very much inspired by the community and culture here, so we’d welcome folks from the Gauntlet.
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This is so true. For reasons I cannot fathom, the NSR Discord took off, but years later when we tried adding the discourse forum it just… didn’t.
RPGNet is rad though.
Storygames.com still exists somewhere in a different form: https://rickard80.github.io/storygames/?22053
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Hi! I’m Rose, RPGnet’s editor-in-chief and showrunner. Christopher sent this thread to me and we talked it over a little.
I’m also a designer and publisher, much of it in the indie space.
We’d be happy to provide a space for Gauntlet posters at RPGnet. What would you folx be interested in having? We mostly don’t divide forums by genre or topic but if that would help, we can definitely arrange something.
There are no technical issues with accepting new users or adding/modifying subforums. We also share the values of this community.
What do y’all think, and what do you need?
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Well, I hardly speak for the community here as a whole (
) , but I think there are likely a bunch of people here who would be happy to have a forum that is a discussion space for “story games”. Traditionally, story game discussion seems to have worked well when there was a carved-out space of some sort that people felt safe in. What that might look like over at RPGnet is up for debate I suppose? What options would there be at RPGnet? E.g would a subforum be in line with common RPGnet decorum?
For me, it’s an “is there interest?” thing.
Our stance has been that all games where you make fiction are RPGs. Not necessarily in a genre sense, but because we want to embrace games that push the boundaries of the medium.
All that in mind I think we could set up a storygame subforum for communities who need it. The mods and I would have to sort out what goes where, but that’s not too big a deal.
Like Christopher, I’m interested in welcoming new designs and experiments. Right now, our game design forum is only lightly populated and designers tend to post their stuff in our Tabletop Roleplaying Open forum. I like that trend, but if we could make the design forum more useful and visible, that would be great, too.
To be a bit blunter and more personal, I’ve lost forums I was a part of, too. Servers are costy and modding is hard.
But I’ve been a poster on RPGnet for more than 20 years, and we have a measure of stability. I’ll gladly offer the benefits of that stability and staying power to anyone here who needs it.
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I don’t see the use of separating “two” different play/design styles. They can all fit under the same umbrella.
Oh, I completely agree. What I’m saying is that if what people want is a subforum, I can do that.
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Adept Play is still making some efforts in terms of long-form community content. They have actual play posts with comments and the site is paired with a discord server.
Personally, I’m always on the lookout for places where the conversation is not centered on the D&Ds and I still miss Story Games.
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Not sure about the other platforms yet but at first I’ll try cauldron because of familiarity, and I lurked a minute in there and had a good impression. Let’s see what comes next