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Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than a…

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[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am a little surprised that there are still Usenet groups that are active for non-sketchy reasons, but I am 0% surprised that a group of TTRPG/FRP players have found a thing that they like, and refuse to change editions.

[–] kyonshi@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@DerisionConsulting most of the traditional text groups are available as they always used to be. the problem is that usenet as a term now is used so much for the filesharing in the alt.binaries that I saw discussions on r/usenet asking what discussion groups had to do with usenet.

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, usenet discussion groups are surprisingly active. I dip back into em on occasion just to see how its going now and again.