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Ask Away: The State of the Guild
Usually, 'Ask Away' is tucked down somewhere in the middle of the RPGN because it's there as an afterthought. In fact, "The Conversation" is almost inevitably more interesting and has the advantage of already having people talking. So in a way, "Ask Away" has become the least useful feature and we're cutting it as an obligation. We won't post an 'Ask Away' unless we have a really important question to ask anymore.

On the other hand, it occurred to us that one question hasn't been asked lately, and it is this: "How is the Guild doing? What can be done to make it better?" Sure, the answers can get contentious, but feedback is important, and sometimes it's necessary to go beyond a circle of people you know for a better insight as to what's going on. Is the topic broad? Yes. That's intentional. Think of it as a state of the union address regarding the Guild, but from the perspective of the reader, rather than having a mod step up and give it.

The Conversation: Most deplorable character/things you've RPed
Wayne is curious in hearing about the guild's experience of the most depraved character you've played. Join in on the conversation and share your experience!

Up and Coming
Interest checks are often the first stage in recruiting players for an RP, and a really good one can net you a lot of applicants. These are some of the interest checks that caught our attention recently. Best of all, they're looking for players!


Current and Cool
Roleplays on this list have already started (but may still be recruiting, please consult the GM) and also caught our attention; the hard work the GM and players put in to setting up the RP, writing their sheets and hashing out the details have paid off and now they're writing their in-character (IC) posts.


On Display
- The Irregulars – An Art Improvement Group - Sherlock Holmes has established group 'for those who wish to improve their art skills through hard work and lots of studying' that establishes guidelines to allow for a group setting critique of posted work.

About RPGN
RPGN is produced by a volunteer staff of druggie rock and roll musicians with the goal of bringing Guild members current and useful information about goings-on in our community. We are always accepting suggestions on categories and content. We're particularly interested in displaying people's artwork as a banner (and will fully credit it and link your gallery -- woo). For more information, feel free to PM RPGN.

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Ask Away:

New Guild isn't really thriving like the Old Guild did, but it's vitals are pretty decent. An over generalized input on how the Guild can be helped is by starting to get things off this list. After all, seven months (or so) of the Guild and still no friends' list?
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Awesome, featured NRP, thanks staff.

AkiBlue said
New Guild isn't really thriving like the Old Guild did, but it's vitals are pretty decent. An over generalized input on how the Guild can be helped is by After all, seven months (or so) of the Guild and still no friends' list?


If Mahz decides to upgrade the site, friends list/black list would definitely be a great idea. In general, the forum we have is very bare-bone compared to similar sites on the internet. While some fancy features such as overly large emoticon base and animated background won't do anything other than lag mobile devices, things like editing titles and post preview will make people's experiences a lot better.
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A friends list would definitely be useful. Profiles would be nice too, but I guess they aren't exactly necessary at the moment xD. I definitely agree with gcold, the ability to edit/delete posts and PMs would be lovely.
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Honestly, the site needs to get toned up a bit, like everyone else here has already mentioned. Whilst it's perfectly understandable how busy Mahz is and how difficult and time consuming the coding of a site from scratch is, the current site is still a massive far cry from what it used to be, and it looks it. It's of course absolutely functional but it could be a lot better, couldn't it? More of the features that Aki has listed should really become a priority in being implemented sometime. A friend's list, simple clickable buttons to activate bolding and italics etc without having to manually type the whole code out, editing/deleting posts and PMs, a report button etcetc should be updated sometime, surely?
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Also, groups. I liked groups.
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There is a pretty big list of desired features by users. It was mentioned already, I know, but that's worth repeating. I figure if there is collection of wanted features those would be the first place to start, maybe even with a poll to see what's all most important to the community.

Looking over the place I do find it a bit funny how people talk to one another. The Guild has a lot of great roleplays going on, albeit, a bit slow in some areas, then you have the OT area where people basically just tear one another down and get pissed. The attention that area seems to get and those massive posts you see in there with tons of references to pop culture and articles is strangely more popular than Advanced, which can be long in each post, but definitely doesn't require you to have your finger on the political pulse. What if people were encouraged more to focus on the RP areas with greater sub-forums like Advanced, Casual, and Free specific general boards (along side the Roleplay and Interest Checks tabs) to just let people build off one another.
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I don't see a search feature. A search feature might be nice. If at the least by thread title. Or if you want to get hard core for threads and posts containing the term. I've used things like this to quickly go back to old posts to double-check myself for consistency sake. Or even to find a post I wanted to show someone and I know it contains a certain word or set of words.

Like "bacon Pepsi".

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As per the conversation: thinking about it the most diabolical thing I've pretty much done in RPs is skip the judicial process to kill off some characters and imprisoning folks based on political leanings. Elsewhere in the same RP one guy committed full-scale genocide on the Tuareg of north-west Africa to test chemical weapons, tortures political prisoners and social deviants, and all around does border-line Nazi Germany stuff. Likewise his neighbor has practiced mass mutilation of tribal population by lobbing off the arms of children to force a rebel general to make a hasty move, and basically has a giant necropolis full of war-time prisoners digging for no reason deep under a mountain complete with lobotomies and medical experiments.

Thus far, my version of China has been lacking in the gritty dark stuff. Though I have plans, but I don't know if that counts.
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My Nation Roleplay is on this week for Noteable Interested Checks :O I'm shock, but thank you for check out my NRP.

I think that Mazh (when he gets backs) should be focusing on what everyone wants. Groups, profiles, ability to edit/delete posts, etc.
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Mahz needs additional Pylons before he can really get back to work on this site.
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Never thought I'd get featured. Cool stuff.
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This is a story of how I bumped a RPGN to make sure a bot isn't on the front page.
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HeySeuss said
Cheap Kitchens Wank-by-the-Sea . Thirty Ex Display Kitchens To Clear. www.exdisplaykitchens1.co.uk £ 595 Each with appliances.Tel 01616-694785


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Feature-wise I really miss the preview option. I feel embarrassed every time I make a post and a formatting error happens that everyone will now see unless I rapidly fix it.

As for deplorable. Not sure. I once made a alien race that went around juicing client species en masse to feed themselves off their blood. But that's all I can think of.
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Updated because Vance Miller is a choad.
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I really would just like to see BBcode come back. Some people mentioned buttons to apply things like italics and bolding, that would be nice and I seem to see those a lot on other sites. Also, colored text would be wonderful, I miss that so much ;_;. 2nd to bbcode, I would also really like post preview to come back, I don't like my posts having mistakes.

As far as deplorable characters go, I once had a blood mage that would only perform rituals on young girls. He would lure them and then peel all their skin off to eek the screams out, then he'd cut both their thumbs off and let the blood drain onto the summoning circle that would turn the blood into blades that would dissect the sacrificed individual.
Hey, if you want players to hate an antagonist, you gotta make them bad :D
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