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« Thread Started on Dec 2, 2010, 11:38pm »

Hello.

When someone hears of a new forum, several questions come to mind. First... where is the forum? Secondly, who made it and why?

Well, the forum is here! It has been made.

The person running the board is me, Cies. I've been role playing for over ten years and loved it the first time I accidentally stumbled upon it. Like most role players, my love of rping is closely linked to my love of reading. At the end of a stressful day it helps to put my mind somewhere else and exercise my creativity.

My personal life trumps the importance of this website, as it should for everyone. I have a job, wife and a little girl and they take up a good amount of my time. I use to primarily do live role playing, but with both the women in my life throwing unpredictable events at me, it became more and more difficult to fulfill promises of showing up at certain times and for certain periods of time. I began to wonder if and how I would ever get to do any roleplaying. Then I remembered posts! Posting has proven to be much easier to do with my lifestyle. I write when it's convenient to me and surprisingly, I can write more often when not having to line myself up to another person's schedule.

This website does have a chat room, it has recently been upgraded to a slightly more accomodating one for players to enjoy. If you want to know more about it, there's a thread which details it.

Why did I make this site? What are my intentions?

I first began rping on AOL, back in the old, old old days. AOL became less and less rping friendly and the act of role playing died out for me almost entirely. If I wasn't playing with some old acquaintances I had, then I wasn't doing much of anything. Meeting new people was hard and often discouraging. I was considering just deleting it all.

Then a friend told me about a large site that hosted Rhydin and the Red Dragon Inn, like the one I had known back in the AOL days. It's a great website, I do recommend it (http://rdi.dragonsmark.com/index.php). I've enjoyed the website and the community there a great deal. However, something was missing.

I often felt that all of my rping hinged upon the RDI website, which wasn't a situation I was comfortable with. I wanted to be able to open myself up to meeting with and rping with players outside of that community. Other rping websites, though, seemed to be heavily focused on a particular concept.

I found that many websites were guilds with strict rules and regulations. You must post this many times a week or you are ejected. You must spar this many times to get this rank. Your post must be at least two paragraphs with eight sentences in each. I disagree with that sort of mentality because anyone who wants to rp, will, and it should be when they have the time and interest to do so and not to simply meet a regulation. And if the websites I found weren't guilds, it was more of a WOW type thing. Which isn't bad, I just wanted something that was still about the writing, not about gaming. A large majority of websites are also dedicated to Harry Potter rp and I've just never been interested in fanfiction. If it weren't those factors then... well, the website was dead.

So what to do?

It had been suggested to me several times that I should make my own forum and finally I just hoped on it and made it. That's how this was created. I have found other forums along the lines of my interests and will include those at the bottom of my page under "Affliates of this Forum." I only mention a forum as being an affliate if I really and truly endorse the admin and their website.

I'm fairly conservative about the outcome of my forum. I'm not expecting there to be hundreds of characters and players here. It would be nice to have a handful. If players who were, for whatever reason, uncomfortable with the RDI site or other rping sites and decide to come here, that's great. If players just want to be in more than one forum they're more than welcome.

My hope is that if you've dreamed of role playing in a world with vampires of the kind you like (be it Dracula, Interview with a Vampire or Twilight), that you get your own board and fulfill that, while still being in touch with a community that respects what you want in your board and also offers you other role playing opportunities outside your vampire theme. Some boards are so specific with what you can rp (only historically accurate colonial characters need apply) that it's unpleasant. Just because you have one vampire, dwarf, smurf character doesn't mean that's the only breed and location you want to write for.

And isn't writing creatively what it's all about?

« Last Edit: Sept 28, 2011, 12:37pm by Cies »

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