It crowd in here!

Me Bizzaro Grumpy here, me want to show how stupid Grumpy be.

Drumpy: "Remember when your favorite forum(s) was focused on a single subject, or maybe two? I was staring at the threads at RPG.net and just amazed how almost every post has pages and pages of responses on subjects. This isn't just RPG.net, I just picked that one for an example. For those not frequenting RPG.net, it is a forum to pretty much discuss any RPG ever made. That is the focus, which is fine but wow do you try to sift through the posts and then the pages within the posts.

BGrumpy: "You sure not know how to use New Post feature. Dick."

Dicklessy: "When you start a forum with the premise of "let's talk about anything", you get anything and everything. That is pretty much the reason I don't go there very much."

BGrumpy: "No worries, me forget address too. Must be all those times daddy over touch us while on computer."

Dumpy: "It is not the people or subjects (they are on cue with the forum's goal), it is just the enormous amounts of threads and responses. Another reason is that my gaming focus is really limited to AD&D mostly so to read about "4E D&D", "Vampire the Horny Bi-Sexual Masquerade", or "Total Drama Island RPG" really doesn't appeal to me."

BGrumpy: "It ok, I understand you can't handle playing mature games with people."

Stumpy: "Some forums start out focused and then bend to public opinion to add more and more. Now you have Dragonsfoot (which I still like to visit) with threads and sections that no longer focus on AD&D. The layout is pretty good though so you can take your machete through the jungle and get to where you want to be. The Knights & Knaves Alehouse has a focus on OSRIC (which inherits AD&D pretty much), which is the home base the the "AncientGaymer Hatin' Rules", but they have a section for OD&D as well (probably due to Matt Finch and his work with Swords & Wizardry). I am not really sure why the K&KA was formed. Some tell tales of them making a huge exodus from Dragonsfoot years ago for whatever reason. Maybe they just wanted a forum that focused on OSRIC development. Whatever the reason, if you are simply interested in AD&D, then that place is pretty much in that zone.

OSRGaming has a good structure with the different D&D sections. It started out to be classic D&D and then they dabbled into other TSR games. Due to public opinion though, they allow Pathfinder, which is basically 3E D&D, which was quoted by Vince as having "poisoned his mind", which Vince made a mad exodus from Dragonsfoot to make OSRGaming. This shift pretty much happened after AncientGamer got banned from every other forum on the planet (I heard he even got banned from the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" forum for telling too much) and OSRGaming was the only place to offer sanctuary. AncientGamer likes Pathfinder, I guess because it is not D&D unless you need a fucking protractor and ruler to play out the combat."

BGrumpy: "blah blah, you try to sound so smart with head up ass." 

Fucky: "The cross posting is fucking annoying as well. Someone will make some new clone or post some bullshit on their blog on the fact that they reviewed  Dangerous Dungeon Crawling In Caves To Get Loot For Blood & Fame and they jump to K&KA, Dragonsfoot, OSRGaming, and even Goblinoid Games to make sure everybody knows they reviewed it. So to all those forum owners that stay focused, I thank you from the bottom of my fucking heart. To the others, well, good luck trying to find the marble in the oatmeal."

BGrumpy: " Look like more shit flying out of mouth. Can't even decide how to insult someone as stupid as you. So again me say take hand off keyboard and give yourself a nice handy."