You can try !rpg@ttrpg.network there is some D&D player there, not sure whether there is a living D&D community, but considering the main rpg community has like one post a week, I doubt a game specific magazine is alive

People do post on lemmy from Mastodon/miss key, and you can follow a lemmy community from Mastodon. It’s not ergonomic but possible.

If you use mbin rather than lemmy, you can even follow Mastodon users

This is making planning ever more complicated, I try to have 4 or 5 player, so the game can run with 1 or even two player not showing. Sure if someone just don’t show on a regular basis, I’ll re open her place to a new player. But people are abroad for work, have to deal with their kids, or have a peak of work, they let us know, and we find an in game reason for their character so not be available and the game runs fine.

Even when the GM miss, we all have ready to play one shots lying on our computers, so not that of a big deal

Player cancelling aren’t that of a big deal comparing to GM cancelling. In the first case you keep playing while shit talking about Bob, in the other, you have to change your plan for the evening

With experience, one learn that players will need 5 minutes to destroy 5hours of game prep. So indeed, sticky notes and bullet points do wonder.

Also, somehow, modern games do wonder at reducing the amount of game prep

Actually, firmware is the Word I was looking for. Thx for the clarification