From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!
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A general TTRPG community would be great I think. A disadvantage of smaller communities can be a Lack of in-depth discussion on a single topic; but conversely a user is far more likely to be exposed to systems they may have otherwise never heard of.
If Lemmy is going to thrive, very specific communities are going to have to take a back seat to more general ones. This can be a good thing :)
Yes I agree with this. Mixing many subreddits together initially will mean people will see each others' posts. Also it's interesting to see this approach on beehaw compared to the plethora of empty communities that's already on lemmy.ml which allows their creation.
Maybe the key is to do a Lemmy instance for the general and then sublemmies for the specific. The folks on lemmygrad seem to have figured it out in the sense that they have the whole instance dedicated to Marxism, and then all of the specific flavours like anarchism are sublemmies of that instance
Yeah, I'm in for that. I used to be only about Pathfinder 1e. But now I've exposed myself to 1e, starfinder, 2e, blades in the dark, Delta green, lancer, traveler, 40k death watch, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. Branching out to ask these other systems has made me a more flexible gm, and only served to expand the tools in my toolbox
a general TTRPG community instead of visiting dndmemes would be great. Just needs a good name that is easy to find.
The most chill game communites have always been Stardew. The most desperate, Hollow Knight.
The most desperate, Hollow Knight.
Maybe the real Silksong was all the suffering we endured together along the way 🤡
They're called communities here (welcome)! And Stardew Valley :)
That's a mouthful. Isn't there a nickname we can use?
I like sublemmy/sublemmies. Couple of folks already used this phrase in this thread :)
Really it works just to call them "subs" the same way we did for subreddits, because you subscribe to them.
Oh stardew valley is so nice, I love that game
Might look into making a general Retro Gaming instance! Don't have a clue how to make that yet, but I would love to have a place to share game collections, experiences, and general love for older games and systems
Update: since I'm on the beehaw instance it looks like I can't create communities as far as I'm aware...
Try https://lemmy.ml/c/patientgamers, migrated from reddit, all about playing games long after release for the first time
These generalist communities are definitely the way to go for the time being. I think that if someone has a retroconsole or emulation setup, then the patientgamers community would appreciate it because we're just, simply, lacking content right now. Like, Beehaw's gaming community, meant for literally everything gaming, is currently the largest and even that has a lack of threads.
If the place grows, then that's when we splinter things off.
Paradox games, Rimworld, and Slay the Spire
Also TTRPGs like Pathfinder 2e and D&D
Cities: Skylines and one for Minecraft mods!
Second the comment about Paradox games (Stellaris, EU4, etc.) below.
Maybe a catch all "Indie" category for small games that don't have the volume to support their own dedicated communities?
Oh, and Factorio, DnD, Pathfinder, MtG and (non-toxic) LoL if we're being greedy.
One thing I've really enjoyed were the Fnaf and Undertale/Deltarune subs for the theories and speculation there. I think either of those are too specific for an individual community but in the future I'd love to see the discussion on a 'game theory' type of community. I love seeing people analyse game lore and find all the hidden secrets in them.
Incremental games (cookie clicker) automation games (factorio), coding games (zacklikes)
I'd love to see a community for VR gaming and a community for tabletop RPGs.
Even with the recent growth I think there isn't enough population for individual communities for all but the most popular games, so I think these broader communities would probably work better.
I would love communities for Half-Life CSGO and other Valve games, Halo, Doom, Quake, Cyberpunk, Forza, Sim-Racing games, Retro games and Emulation
Hoping to find (or help create) a place to discuss boardgames.
From what I can tell there isn't much out there yet right?
I'm also interested in boardgames and I was surprised to see that there doesn't seem to be a community about that
I would really like to see a community for all soulsborne games/fromsoft games. There are so many secrets hidden in these games that are nice to discover in posts and I like to read the posts speculating about the lore behind all the item texts etc.
Everything. I'd love it to get to a point where private companies are hosting their own Fedi servers. Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.
New game coming out? Spin up a GoToSocial and a Lemmy and host yourself.
This is all unlikely, but it'd be fun.
Every game eventually, but for now big categories would be cool like TTRPGs, FPS, MOBA, RPGs, and maybe one of various franchises, Pokemon, Minecraft, WoWarcraft etc.
don't quite know the term for subs yet
communities is the official term across lemmy instances, but sublemmy, subhaw, subchat etc. work based on where you are posting.
Final Fantasy XIV. Going to miss that sub on Reddit and would love to see it again on lemmy.
r/truegaming, which is going read-only in protest if the reddit changes, and is considering moving to lemmy. The focus of that subreddit was more long-form discussion of gameplay design and mechanics, as opposed to news/reviews/memes.
Oh nice, once they get set up here I'm going to look into it. If really like to discuss the shadow of war nemesis system!
Definitely Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld.
Sublemmies.
redditors are on reddit, lemmings are on lemmy
Tales series.
Go ahead and create the subs of your dreams ppl! If your instance doesn't allow sub creation (ex beehaw) then make a new acct on midwest.social or lemmy.perthchat.org or whatnot and make the sub there, then mod your beehaw acct.
Being a lemming sounds a lot more fun than being a redditor, not gonna lie :)
I know lemmings-the-rodents don't actually throw themselves off cliffs - that's a myth that came from some old Disney(?) documentary where they got pushed off one, iirc - but come to think of it I don't know much about what they are like.
P.s. also I'm loving that the Jerboa app has buttons for italics and such. It doesn't look like there's a button for spoiler tags though; are those a thing here?
I've never personally used spoilers here and have only seen them used like once
Dota 2 and Final Fantasy (at least create one for all FF games)
There's a dota 2 community on this one, but it's utterly deserted. Went there yesterday and it told me it had 1 user per day. Yeah. Me.
I think just bringing topics about those games to general communities is a better idea for now. I'd say make a Valve community and a jRPG one.
Darktide. It's the only thing I play at the moment, so I started one at !darktide@sopuli.xyz to praise the Emperor and talk about smiting heretics.
Victoria 3, Warhammer III
Paradox communities are always fun, I'd love to see them here (I know WH3 isn't paradox)