RPOL - settle the matter for me

[Darkhon]

I haven't been here in ages, because found a spot called www.rpol.net where I could create my own forum for each game, and then assign people in-game names. It's free and easy.

I hate the idea of all games being a single message in a larger forum like here. I like my games to have many messages and to be able to include stickies at the top for the rules and such.

Unfortunately, most of the people at this site are not YOU guys. You all seem to be interested in games that blend strategy into the RP. Your games are the type of games I like to create and play in.

So I can either;

A) Try to convince the people at RPOL who want to freeform a dungeon crawl the joys of roleplaying a Monarch of a soverign nation and how interesting the strategic elements can be in a place with a much better interface for gaming, including a built in dice roller and a place for everyone to found their own games.

B) Risk being branded a spammer and invite you guys to check it out, in the hopes a few like minded players join me in a better place. Yet, with the caveat you could stay here and do both, so there is no risk of you losing anything, you can do both.

C) Return here and be hobbled by the interface, sharing my game in the same forum as dozens of other games, but find myself surrounded by creative geniuses who enjoy RPing an armchair mastermind.


What should I do?

 

[Catharsis]

If what you're after is the chance to take charge of a nation, then you'd be more at home in the Never-Ending Story forum than this one. (Occasionally there's a game of that type in this forum too, but there hasn't been one for a while.)

While NES also has the issues you find fault with (were you to start a game there, you'd have to share the forum with all the other NESes) the situation is not quite as simple as you say: for example, go to the top of this page and click Community -> Social Groups. Some of the groups you see in the sidebar (such as "The Entente", "Commonwealth of Nations", "EkoNES: The Undercouncil" and so on) are private groups that were set up by players in those games in which they can conduct discussions and diplomacy with their allies in an area where other players can't look at them. (At least, I assume that's what they are. I'm not actually in any NESes.) If you moderate a social group, you have a lot more power over what goes on, although I don't think you can sticky threads. You don't have to wade through lots of other games though, and you can have more than one thread in each social group.

The downside to this is that the interface is rather clunky and there's a quite restrictive character limit for posts (character as in letters and numbers, not in the RP sense ) which means you probably couldn't run a whole game in there. But the point is sound.

This forum mostly has mafia games - that's strategic play with a RP flair, but in a different way. For the most part, the games held in this forum don't require more than one thread to play, although a lot of private discussion does go on via the QuickTopic message boards, in much the same way as NESers use the social groups.

Incidentally, I went to that RPOL site once, but couldn't make head nor tail of it. Didn't really know what I was clicking on.