I might be wrong but I’m 90% sure the Shadowrun (ttrpg) community was on this instance. Now I can’t find it anywhere (cross-instance community search doesn’t find it too) and I can see in my profile that my posts sent there disappeared too.
Was the community closed? I couldn’t find this info in the modlog
Regarding Shadowrun itself, I’m interested in Lore discussions, GM discussions not about the mechanics (i e. “how do I portray Johnny Spinrad hiring our group? Tee Hee turned out wrong”), reviews of campaign/mission books, etc
I’m also interested in general GMing content like the “onion plots”, “lazy gm” approach or “how to do combat like a dolphin”
Since you chose that comment to ask your question, I’ll expand on what I’m complaining about. Content I have problem with is a title that sounds like it might be the general advice but then suddenly “this monster has the following stats, so that’s how you put it against your players in a smart way”. It’s great that it exists and I’m sure anyone playing D&D can take a lot from articles like this. But it’s of no use for me and from my perspective there’s a lot of content like this.
Hence in general I tend to avoid the “general RPG” spaces because most of the links I find there turn out to be not for me, and only after I start reading. And I get it that it might sound over the top that I complain about needlessly reading a paragraph or two. But with the amount of backlog that I have, the proportions of what topics interest me vs those which don’t and the rate at which unread content grows - yes, every click counts for me
I get what you mean. It’s tricky. I think what you’re observing is that it would be ideal to have a community for RPG stuff that is NOT Dungeons & Dragons. It’s tough that most communities are built around a certain game, and there isn’t quite enough activity on Lemmy, I think for one just for Shadowrun.
If it’s of any use, I moderate a community for discussion of a game myself and friends are getting ready to release. It’s a street level sci-fi setting. It’s not very active, but if you’re looking for another place to look for RPG discussion after the usual ones, it’s at least cyberpunk-adjacent.
Incidentally, I just searched for what combat like a dolphin means, and I’m gonna post it over there on. We’re at !fullyautomatedrpg@slrpnk.net .
Well, it is the state the hobby is in general, not only Lemmy.
Thanks for letting me know about Fully Automated, I’ll check it out