!dungeoncrawlers@piefed.blahaj.zone
Hello, I made this community as a place for a subset of RPGs that usually end up in the shadow of more popular open-world RPGs, JRPGs and Souls-likes.
My definition of dungeon crawlers (that’s, admittedly, stretching the definition a bit), is as follows:
- it takes place in a confined space (doesn’t need to be a literal dungeons!),
- it puts a strong emphasis on combat and looting,
- and it offers little to no story.
This includes a broad variety of games and genres, such as:
- Blobbers (first-person party-based RPGs like Dungeon Master)
- Traditional roguelikes with procgen, permadeath and one controllable character, e.g. Nethack
- Some ARPGs like Diablo and King’s Field
- Many unconventional indie titles like Osteoblasts, Ruadine or Divers (UFO 50 game)
And there are definitely other notable examples that I forgot to mention!
My hope is that the community is broad enough to find its audience here but not too broad! Lemmy would really benefit from more focused communities I think.
There is a whole instance for that at https://ttrpg.network/
Still, which instance looks more adequate?
Is there a problem with blahaj zone?
I’d rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that’s all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.
The only fitting instances I see are retrolemmy and .zip. Retrolemmy specifies that it is only about retro stuff while my community isn’t exclusively about retro stuff (and I’m more interested in posting about modern games). .zip to me feels like a generic instance and I don’t like its local feed so I don’t see a compelling reason to move to it.
If ttrpg.network doesn’t seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.
level-up zone seems pretty dead to me, there’s only one mod who I have no experience with, and I don’t think moving a new community around is a good idea in general - it will just confuse people.
I’ll stay on blahaj zone for a foreseeable future.
It’s not dead, it’s in a catch-22. It’s not open to users, so there is no way (yet) for users to create communities there without going through me. I want to find a solution for this on this summer so that I don’t become a bottleneck.
That would be me. I’m the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.