!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.

!dungeoncrawlers@piefed.blahaj.zone

I forgor to add it 💀

Sounds great! I started it off with a recent favorite.

Oh, boy

Favorite gameplay genre of mine probably =D

There is a whole instance for that at https://ttrpg.network/

computer RPGs

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.

Awesome, I love it, Lucy. Thank you for creating it.

I would just disagree with the little to no story. I feel like dungeon crawlers have the most compelling stories because they are deeply attached to gameplay rather than exposition.

Yeah, I don't like the wording on that rule. Emergent narrative is of course super allowed, it's just the pre-determined mandatory story told through dialogues, cutscenes and main character monologues that doesn't fit the community. Otherwise we'd start calling Deltarune a dungeon crawler!

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.

level-up zone seems pretty dead to me

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.

there’s only one mod who I have no experience with.

That would be me. I'm the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.