Reign for tabletop RPGs / DMs. Tabletop RPG community and DM resources.

Reign is the WordPress theme for building a complete community site: social network, courses, member directory, marketplace and job board on one install. A tabletop site uses the social network, the media and the events.

BuddyNext supplies profiles with searchable fields for system, timezone and experience, plus private spaces for each campaign. MediaVerse, free, holds maps, handouts and character art in albums with privacy levels. Jetonomy adds rules discussion with accepted answers. Eventonomy lists weekly sessions with RSVPs. To sell adventures or maps, BuddyNext Pro adds paid plans and gated spaces, and a shop plugin handles one-off sales.

The BuddyPress Community Bundle kit is the packaged route and the membership site build guide covers gated resources. The plugins page shows the split.

A player checks the looking-for-group space, finds a table that fits their timezone and applies. Once in, their activity moves into the campaign space, where they read the last session recap, post character updates and discuss a plan before game night.

A GM spends their week preparing: updating the campaign space, uploading a map, posting a recap and answering questions between sessions. The best campaigns keep a weekly post going, which keeps players engaged when the next session is days away.

Some tables run entirely as play by post, with turns taken in the private space. It suits players in awkward timezones and keeps a campaign alive between sessions.

Tabletop groups are built on trust. Strangers sit at a table for hours, share stories and sometimes dark themes, and a bad experience at one table can drive someone out of the hobby. The site cannot fix a bad player, but it can make good behaviour the easy default and give people a clear route when something goes wrong.

Start with a short code of conduct written for this hobby. Cover how a game master handles content that makes a player uncomfortable, what happens when someone is repeatedly late or absent, and how a player can leave a campaign without drama. Pin it in the looking-for-group space so everyone sees it before they apply to a table.

Use the moderation tools you already have. BuddyNext includes a report-and-review queue in the free plugin, and Jetonomy has its own queue for the rules discussion space. Name two or three trusted members as moderators and tell the community who they are, so a player who needs help knows whom to message.

Private campaign spaces create a risk as well as a benefit. Nobody outside the table sees what happens, so make sure each game master knows that the site owner can step in if a member reports a problem. Say so in the rules, openly, so nobody is surprised.

Finally, give players a way to say what they want. A simple post type for session zero notes, listing the tone, the lines and the veils the table agrees on, makes hard conversations easier and shows new players that you take their comfort seriously.

Making campaign spaces public is the main one. Notes visible to another group spoil the surprise.

Charging players is the second. It shrinks the tables that make the community worth being in.

Third, do not skip the looking-for-group space. Without it, new members arrive, find nothing to do and leave.