Split the Forums

[Rycke]

Is there a way that the forums can be split, one set of forums for people who have actually played, and another set for therory-crafters? It would be nice if I'm looking for what people think of certain classes or ancestries if I could limit my searches only to people who actually have played them or seen them in action.

[Rysky]

Even if they did split them there's nothing stopping people from crossposting, if you're interested in a specific instance you'd be better off making a thread and just asking for people who have actually played to respond.

[Bluenose]

How would you be able to tell the difference? Would people from the 'actual play' forum be required to explain what they find fun before being allowed to declare a class fun, or give their average dice rolls so people can see whether their thoughts on whether a class was powerful or weak wasn't informed by rolling a standard deviation above or below the mean?

[Moro]

What makes you think you can tell the difference now?

[Dasrak]

It's also not a black and white line. I've built and run mock combat with every 1st level class except monk (honestly never cared for them, likely never will) and gotten a sense for how they handle in combat at 1st level. This is much closer to playtesting than theory-crafting, but it's not the same as a real table with other players.

[MrGWillickers]

As much as the idea of separating the two sounds nice, it would never work. As others have mentioned there would be no way to enforce it, and you would have a lot of people really upset at being "left out" and they would say Paizo is trying to silence them.

But, yeah, I often want one or the other.