A Discord server template for gaming guilds

The layout#

Categories in capitals, text channels with #, voice channels with 🔊. Rename anything to fit your guild; what matters is the shape of the COMMS category.

INFO
  # welcome
  # rules
  # announcements
  # pick-your-roles

GUILD
  # general
  # looking-for-group
  # builds-and-guides
  # clips-and-screenshots

EVENTS
  # raid-schedule
  # event-signups
  # war-reports

OFFICERS              (private: Officer and Guild Master)
  # officer-chat
  # recruitment
  🔊 Officers

COMMS
  🔊 Command          callers talk here
  🔊 Alpha            one channel per party
  🔊 Bravo
  🔊 Charlie
  🔊 Delta
  🔊 Echo
  🔊 Foxtrot

HANGOUT
  🔊 Lounge
  🔊 Duos
  🔊 AFK

The roles#

Give @everyone read-only access to INFO and nothing else, so new joiners see the rules and the role picker before the rest of the server.

Why the voice channels look like this#

Discord sends your voice only to the channel you're in. Put a 40-player raid in one channel and party leaders can't talk to their party without talking over the caller; split them into parties and nobody hears the caller. The COMMS category is built to have both: parties in their own channels, and the caller relayed into all of them. The trade-offs are in can you talk in two Discord voice channels at once?

• Command holds the shot callers. Limit who can speak there to Shot Caller and Officer, so the channel stays clean.
• Party channels get a user limit equal to your game's party size — five or six — so channels match in-game parties. Limits are explained in Discord voice channel limits for large guilds.
• AFK is set as the server's inactive channel in Server Settings → Overview, so idle members drop out of party channels.

Set it up#

1. 1

   Create the server

   In Discord, add a server, choose Create My Own, then For a club or community.

2. 2

   Add the categories and channels

   Create each category from the layout, then its text and voice channels. Drag channels to reorder them.

3. 3

   Create the roles

   Server Settings → Roles. Add Guild Master, Officer, Shot Caller, Party Leader and Member, in that order from the top.

4. 4

   Set channel permissions

   Make OFFICERS private to Officer and Guild Master. In Command, allow Speak only for Shot Caller and Officer. In each party channel, give Party Leader the Priority Speaker permission.

5. 5

   Set party sizes

   Edit each party channel and set its user limit to your game's party size.

6. 6

   Relay the caller

   Invite the Callout bot, pick Command as the shot caller channel and Shot Caller as the caller role, and give each party channel a speaker bot. Getting started walks through it in about ten minutes.

Adjust it for your game#