Moiraine, I genuinely don’t think that will happen. On the UBB it will be a lot easier to move between forums (it will be just a mouse click away! ). I think it will actually make it easier for people to join in because you will have people who don’t necessarily have BG questions who will be able to participate and this will help our board community to grow. Of course no-one will be stopping anyone from going off-topic with BG threads – that’s how we all got to know more about each other! But UBB forums I’ve seen are set up with an offtopic forum where most of the ‘regulars’ hang out, because we’ve all become experts on the game and want to talk about our own interests and about other things. And newbies don't feel like they're intruding in offtopic convos because that's what that forum is there for. In fact, I’m a bit worried that most people with BG2 knowledge will spend ALL their time on the off-topic board and there’ll be no-one to help out the newbies with game problems (except me and Armisael!!!) So when we do move, please check between boards, ok??
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