Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 5, 2019 18:25:38 GMT -5
The popular 900 member T&T Facebook community has been archived and will no longer accept new posts or comments. A new page with long-standing members of the T&T community including Thessaly Chance Tracy and Steve Crompton can be found at the link below. The community is set to closed so you can openly discuss our obsession hobby. Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls, Monsters! Monsters! FB Community |
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Post by Piper on Jul 5, 2019 20:27:32 GMT -5
The popular 900 member T&T Facebook community has been archived and will no longer accept new posts or comments. A new page with long-standing members of the T&T community including Thessaly Chance Tracy and Steve Crompton can be found at the link below. The community is set to closed so you can openly discuss our obsession hobby. Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls, Monsters! Monsters! FB Community
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Post by gaptooth on Jul 6, 2019 17:03:04 GMT -5
What happened?
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 6, 2019 17:45:44 GMT -5
I'm not clear on the details, but I'll line out the info I've gleaned from the public posts (many now deleted, unfortunately). A new moderator (Roland) got into a kerfluffle with a long-time and popular moderator (Thessaly). Roland then banned Thessaly and after a rising tide of backlash from the user-base reinstated her. The argument reignited, push came to shove, no agreement was reached, Thessaly formed a new T&T group and the T&T group on which all this transpired was archived.
I'm not certain as to the specifics of what happened but it revolved around strongly expressed and somewhat repugnant political ideas by Roland and his subsequent banning of Thessaly when she confronted him about same. In the end? Ken himself got involved, Steve Crompton had chipped in, and the new T&T group was formed. So many of the active users were joining the moderator who appointed Roland (can't recall his name, sorry) archived the group. It's still there, though many recent posts have been deleted, but one may no longer post and reply to posts thereon.
As a result? There is now a T&T FB group that has a present and active owner and moderator staff, as well as a clear mandate all political and ideological discussions are off-topic (to say the least). In fact? The banning of this topic is the one currently existing rule of the group. These are the facts as best I understand them. The accusations made by both sides I'll leave off, I'll merely state quite simply I believe Thessaly's version of what transpired. This has been a sorry chapter for our little community. But it's behind us now, I hope everyone heals and we can get back to gaming and talking about gaming.
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Post by gaptooth on Jul 6, 2019 22:47:44 GMT -5
Thank you, Piper! I was part of the old group—by Thessaly's invitation (AKA devadasi in these parts)—but I wasn't logging in to Facebook often enough to catch wind of any of this. Thessaly sent me an invitation to the new group today, I just didn't understand the impetus. I really appreciate the high-level overview, and I respect your effort to avoid re-hashing any invective! Cheers! |
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 7, 2019 8:49:29 GMT -5
Thessaly sent me an invitation to the new group today, I just didn't understand the impetus. I really appreciate the high-level overview, and I respect your effort to avoid re-hashing any invective!
Join!
Right now, it's pretty active though it may only be because the community is new. I hope it stays active. As a newcomer to T&T, I crave discussions of the rules as I'm trying to get a good feel for running my own game.
Oh, you're welcome and I'm with you on the invective. The 'net has enough of that, I try to avoid it as best I can.
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Post by ProfGremlin on Jul 7, 2019 21:20:09 GMT -5
Glad to hear Devadasi is still going strong. I truly enjoyed her perspective and the discussions she instigated and participated in here. I don't have a Facebook account so I'll have to live vicariously through you Piper. My thanks for the good news.
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 7, 2019 21:35:11 GMT -5
I’ll pass on any big news posted there to this forum. They just made me a mod there so this should help me stay “in the know.”
In the FB Trollhallen page KSA was talking about the next “big project” he hoped would be on KS in the next year. It is assumed this timeline is dependent upon the health of a certain luminary in the T&T universe.
Then Thessaly was talking about the big Monsters! Monsters! update getting “bigger all the time.”
Taken together? M!M! Should get a the dT&T treatment very soon! One may well hope in a year, more or less.
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Post by gaptooth on Jul 7, 2019 22:40:38 GMT -5
I was there already, Piper. I accepted the invitation right away.  |
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 7, 2019 22:41:37 GMT -5
News! Sign up now, if membership gets over 300? Non-admin members will be eligible to win a copy of Vaults of K’Horror in a random drawing.
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Post by peterpanda on Jul 9, 2019 7:51:57 GMT -5
Hello Piper,
I don't do Facebook and have no plans to change that but do so appreciate your offer to keep the TrollBridge updated. Thanks!
Cheers -
Peter Panda
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 9, 2019 8:11:59 GMT -5
I don't do Facebook and have no plans to change that but do so appreciate your offer to keep the TrollBridge updated. Thanks!
My pleasure. I know a lot of folks aren't on FB for many reasons, that's why I try to spread the word on any good news coming around.
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 10, 2019 14:17:22 GMT -5
Thanks to Steve Crompton's generosity, we've "added on" to the membership drive! When the FB group reaches 500 members we'll be giving away another copy of Vaults of K'Horror T&T module. Admins, mods, and prior winners are excluded from the drawing. So if you're on FB and you haven't clicked join yet? What are you waiting for?!?
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Karl
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Post by Karl on Jul 11, 2019 19:39:11 GMT -5
I do not Facebook either or I would join in on the fun.
Politics never ever fails to alienate 35% of any group of people, no matter what side is taken everyone thinks their side is the reasonable one lol.
Sounds like in the end the T&T community might end up stronger for it.
We can all get along, at least long enough to play some T&T!
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Piper
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Post by Piper on Jul 11, 2019 20:50:27 GMT -5
Political discussion is not welcome at my table, for pretty much the reason you cite. No matter how cool and calm everyone thinks they are, sooner or later it degenerates into an argument.
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