I am focusing on a registration/membership system for my online community. I'm not sure exactly what would be the best way to utilize DNNs robust groups and roles system. I'm not sure if I should keep it simple or if it's best to make my system more granular. Below is a listing of my scenrarios.

SIMPLE: registered users= members, Talent=Talent role,  Entertainer =Entertainer,  Artist=Artist role

SOPHISTICATED: Talent Groups with roles such as dancers, singers, models, etc

                                  Entertainers (groups) same types of roles as above (if this can be done)

                                  Artists (groups) writer, director, poet, composer, etc

My question is what is the best approach with DNN and Does managing groups become a lot more time consuming?

Thanks for that info. Let's say I have a talent group? I have 5 roles in that group. If I wanted to grant access to a certain page/module for all of those roles in that group, do I simply select the group name or will I still need to select each individual role too?

Now I understand. This is not like active directory. I appreciate this information and it clears up a lot of questions for me.