Okay, this is more of a reminder for me once things settle down with the new boards/site. If you have suggestions, please post them here.
Note, this isn't so much for features (i.e. Bring back sblocks) but for organizing the boards. (i.e. Add 4e Dark Sun boards.)
You may have noticed the D&D general is more in the middle of the list, which is nice. 
I'd like to keep it that way, although the sub forum looks blocky.
So...
-Create 4e Dark Sun boards: Dark Sun Lore and Running Dark Sun
-Rather than a block with the sub forums listed, it would be cleaner to have them as a list.
Forum A
Forum B
Forum C
Forum D
Rather than
Forum A, Forum B,
Forum C, Forum D
House rules and hombrew should change places with Off Topic Tavern.
Sorry this may be slightly off topic, but...
The Recent Topics and Most Popular Topics sections on the right side of the page REALLY should be context specific IMO. Or, at least, let us set a filter or something in our user preferences.
These sections take up a lot of real estate. I think I would be cool with that if they showed stuff related to my context or interests. These could be very useful and value added sections. Instead, they are quite distracting and a large waste of real estate as implemented.
And yeah, I totally agree that the paragraph style lists are not exactly ideal.
Please make the Recent and Popular content something I can enable or disable. They take up half the page, making it awkward to read the parts of the forum I actually DO care about.
The legacy forums are no longer locked. This needs to be fixed immediately. Frankly, it's a good time to archive these forums
I'd like it if hyperlinks could change color or get underlned when you run your cursor over it.
The D&D Worlds forums need to be reordered, so at least the Eberron and FR forums are grouped together.
Dark Sun should be moved from the Other Worlds subforum to become a subforum of its own.
Please make the Recent and Popular content something I can enable or disable. They take up half the page, making it awkward to read the parts of the forum I actually DO care about.
Seconded. I'd rather not have to view them, much less load them on dialup. Some of the threads I frequent overlap into that area because they're too wide and they're a pain to read.
the whole RPG section should jsut be pulled out from under D&D and given its own area....but thats a dicussion for another time....
the whole RPG section should jsut be pulled out from under D&D and given its own area....but thats a dicussion for another time....
No, that's the exact sort of thing this thread is for; not for features and such but organizing the forums themselves rather than bugs and features (since there's a separate thread for those.)
the whole RPG section should jsut be pulled out from under D&D and given its own area....but thats a dicussion for another time....
No, that's the exact sort of thing this thread is for; not for features and such but organizing the forums themselves rather than bugs and features (since there's a separate thread for those.)
I was thinking of fter the bugs get worked out..but heres how i see it :
RPG
Community buiness
link to the rec room or off topic taveren (doesn't matter)
then the sub forums RPG GD,D20 CD,CO and thne Modern and it owuld have its own VCL with FGs as needed
and it mvoed like above Star Wars but below the AH stuff
shortcuts to other forums (Living Forgotten Realms, The Marketplace) like the old boards had.
I really like the new design, but making it difficult to get to the LFR boards has me a bit puzzled.
My requests:
1) Let us read older posts in the thread so we can scroll down and reference them instead of copy/paste into word/hop back and forth between screens so we don't have to quote an entire post and then go back and edit out the irrelevant parts.
2) 1.5 line spacing really annoying for those of use who grew up putting our own spaces between paragraphs
3) Customize the side-bar threads. I really don't care aout MtG, Star Wars, or the other forums. Let me see my subscribed threads
4) Agreeing with the post somewhere earlier back (see what I mean from #1? as I come up with a thought while replying, I can't just scroll down and grab the part I want to reference) that calls for listing the sub-topics in columnar form instead of a jumbled paragraph.
5) In the notification e-mail, would you please tell me what sub-topic the thread is in? There's something wrong with the way WotC's e-mails and Clearwire mesh that makes just clicking on the link shut my browser down. It doesn't happen with any other site, just Wizards.
6) Underneath the reply is a check box "Notify me of new messages posted to this thread". Move this to the forums preferences so we don't have to check it every time we post a reply. If I've chimed in on a discussion, OF COURSE I WANT TO HEAR REPLIES!
7) Can we have the roll-over thing on the threads back? You know, when you move your cursor over a thread title, you get the first so many words so you might get an idea of what the thread is about?
Webster is there a chance the Unearthed Arcana and Houserules forum could be moved from Legacy to Previous Editions? I know it was placed there during the 4e reorg because Gamer0 insisted only a few forums could remain in Previous Editions; however, the number of forums in Previous Editions has increased from that original preset anyway, and I believe there are a number of users that would enjoy having that forum available to post in.
better idea :
removing the RPG area from under the D&D banner and give its own banner,this will hopefully drum up new itnerest in the prodcuts instead of the "its jsut D&D with guns" which it isn't and then put htem in the following orgination
and hten putting htem in the following order:
- RPG community business
- RPGs General Discussion
- D20 modern
- d20 Character Optimization
- d20 Character Development
better idea :removing the RPG area from under the D&D banner and give its own banner,this will hopefully drum up new itnerest in the prodcuts instead of the "its jsut D&D with guns" which it isn't and then put htem in the following orgination and hten putting htem in the following order:
- RPG community business
- RPGs General Discussion
- D20 modern
- d20 Character Optimization
- d20 Character Development
You have my vote! Makes alote of sense to me 
FYI, when viewing the 4e Fundementals subsection the Strikers forum is at the bottom of the list seperate from Leaders, Defenders, and Controllers which are in the middle.
Lock (and archive) the Legacy Boards
Move the RPG Forum (and all its subforms) from the Dungeons & Dragons category to the General Gaming Category. At a minimum, move it above the Legacy Forums
Here's how I would organize the forums:
- D&D HQ
- Community Business
- Future Releases
- GSL
- D&D Fundamentals
- 4e Multiclassing, Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies
- 4e Controllers
- 4e Defenders
- 4e Leaders
- 4e Strikers
- 4e Rituals, Equipment & Magic Items
- 4e Races and Monsters
- 4e Combat Rules and Feats (renamed from Tactics, Terrain and Traps)
- 4e Skills, Abilities, Challenges and Quests (this is new)
- 4e Rules Q&A
- 4e Books Errata
- 4e Character Optimization
- 4e Character Development
- 4e House Rules & Homebrew (from D&D Community)
- Campaign & Adventure Workshop (From D&D Community)
- 4e General Discussion
- D&D Community
- What's a DM to Do?
- What's a Player to Do?
- Astrid's Parlor
- Off-Topic Tavern
- D&D Insider
- D&Di Announcements
- Technical Discussion
- Dragon/Dungeon Article Discussion
- Dragon/Dungeon General
- Dragon/Dungeon Articles Errata
- Character Builder Feedback
- Character Builder Technical Issues
- Monster Builder
- D&Di General
- Digital D&D
- D&D Worlds
- Forgotten Realms: Realmslore
- Running the Realms
- Forgotten Realms: General
- Eberron: Eberron Lore
- Eberron: Running Eberron
- Dark Sun
- Other Published Worlds
- RPGs (assuming you don't move it to General Gaming)
- d20 Character Optimization
- d20 Character Development
- d20 Modern
- RPGs
- General Discussion
- D&D Previous Editions
- Monsters and Races
- Classes & Class Features
- Spells, Invocations, and Magic Items
- Psionics
- Equipment, Skills, and Feats
- Adventures, Campaigns, and Encounters
- Previous Editions General
- Legacy Forums (assuming you don't just archive it)
- Regdar's Repository
- D&D Out of Print
- D&D Forum FAQs
- D&D Accessories (Archived)
- Unearthed Arcana and House Rules
- Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
- D&Di Article Discussion
- 4E Rules
- 4E Concerns and Criticism
- d20 Character Optimization
- d20 Character Development
- d20 Modern
- General Discussion
I would and the community that I for the most repersent would perfer to have our own banner,instead of being under osme other banner..........
- d20 Character Optimization
- d20 Character Development
- d20 Modern
- General Discussion
I would and the community that I for the most repersent would perfer to have our own banner,instead of being under osme other banner..........
I second the motion.
Trappedslider
I'm confused. Do you think it would be insufficient were the forums sent to General Gaming? It would pretty much have that entire forum to itself.
I suggested putting RPGs and d20 into General Gaming, and moving it above Previous Editions only if the powers that be were unwilling to do that.
Or were you referring to some other group of forums.
Trappedslider
I'm confused. Do you think it would be insufficient were the forums sent to General Gaming? It would pretty much have that entire forum to itself.
I suggested putting RPGs and d20 into General Gaming, and moving it above Previous Editions only if the powers that be were unwilling to do that.
Or were you referring to some other group of forums.
What I'm trying to say is, that like General gaming has its own buniness ofrum,own link on the main portal to the different areas,that is what I'm asking for the RPG section
I want the RPG section to have the following :
- its own CB board
- link to the rec room
- a portal on community.wizards.com/go/browse/forums
- its own VCL/FGs
- a dancing monkey
BAsicly I want it to be its OWN area
EDIT: now its says classic view> D&D>Community Business>Forum organization
I want it say Classic view>RPG>Community Business (or which ever of the ofurms currently under RPG your looking at)
Note, this isn't so much for features (i.e. Bring back sblocks) but for organizing the boards. (i.e. Add 4e Dark Sun boards.)
Okay, here's a suggest for the New Wizards Order.
D&D HQ
>Community Business (Issues regarding the D&D Community go here)
>Future Releases (Here's the place to discuss teasers and preview and your hopes for the future of Dungeons & Dragons)
>GSL (Find help & advice regarding the Gaming System Licence)
D&D 4th Edition
> 4e Rules Q&A (Have a question about how the rules interact? Ask here!)
> 4e Classes & Roles (Five Sub-forums)
> 4e Races & Monsters
> 4e Rituals, Equipment & Magic Items (If you can buy it, sell it, build it, carry it, perform it or break it, you can write about it in this forum!)
> 4e Combat: Traps, Terrain and Tactics (Found a power combo? Figured out a class synergy? Share here!)
> 4e Character Optimization
> 4e Character Development
> 4e Book Errata
> 4e General Discussion (Doesn't fit in the above? Talk here)
D&D Previous Editions
> Classes & Class Features,
> Spells, Invocations, and Magic Items,
> Monsters and Races,
> Adventures, Campaigns, and Encounters,
> Equipment, Skills, and Feats,
> Psionics
> Previous Editions General,
> Off-Topic Tavern,
> What's a DM to Do?,
> What's a Player to Do?,
> Astrid's Parlor,
> Campaign & Adventure Workshop
> House Rules & Homebrew
RPG HQ
>Community Business (Issues regarding the RPG Community go here)
>RPGs General Discussion
>d20 Character Optimization,
>d20 Character Development,
>d20 Modern,
(note that it is OUTSIDE the D&D and on its OWN and not under general gaming or somehwere else
D&D HQ
>Community Business (Issues regarding the D&D Community go here)
>Future Releases (Here's the place to discuss teasers and preview and your hopes for the future of Dungeons & Dragons)
>GSL (Find help & advice regarding the Gaming System Licence)
D&D 4th Edition
> 4e Rules Q&A (Have a question about how the rules interact? Ask here!)
> 4e Classes & Roles (Five Sub-forums)
> 4e Races & Monsters
> 4e Rituals, Equipment & Magic Items (If you can buy it, sell it, build it, carry it, perform it or break it, you can write about it in this forum!)
> 4e Combat: Traps, Terrain and Tactics (Found a power combo? Figured out a class synergy? Share here!)
> 4e Character Optimization
> 4e Character Development
> 4e Book Errata
> 4e General Discussion (Doesn't fit in the above? Talk here)
D&D Previous Editions
> Classes & Class Features,
> Spells, Invocations, and Magic Items,
> Monsters and Races,
> Adventures, Campaigns, and Encounters,
> Equipment, Skills, and Feats,
> Psionics
> Previous Editions General,
> Off-Topic Tavern,
> What's a DM to Do?,
> What's a Player to Do?,
> Astrid's Parlor,
> Campaign & Adventure Workshop
> House Rules & Homebrew
We could use a Wiki forum.
Also Dark Sun could use its own forum.
It should be as simple as moving it out of "Other Worlds" and putting it on the main menu.
I think a forum for all of those 1001 lists would be grand...
I'd like to either see a link to the RPG Gamer Classifieds listed either under D&D Community or as a Sticky at the top of the D&D General Forum. Also, if the forum jumper has truly gone the way of the Dodo, could a link to the RPGA forums be put under D&D HQ or D&D Community?
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