Hello dear ladies and gentlemen, I'm Rat, and I came here to find a land of milk and honey - and active role-playing. I'm a refugee from a land far, far away, and I've heard many good things about this place. I'll gladly play along with you in a variety of genres, and I could (hopefully) run my own game as well.

I like my games to be fun, engaging and realistic - which could often sound conflicting, but "realistic" doesn't mean "grim as fuck" or "choose to murder this orphan or eat this kitten's soul to survive". It just means that characters do what they should do, and not what the writer wants them to do.

I like original worlds and the wonder (& dread) of exploring a brand new place. I like high-intensity games, with high-stakes and personal stories more than a "save the universe, chosen one" situation. It's the 'little people' that count, ordinary folk just like us. Everybody likes to do some wish fulfillment, but in my opinion it's more gratifying to survive the apocalypse as an average Joe (like myself) than fight aliens as super-bat-woman (Not that it's not fun sometimes).

My favorite book genres are low-fantasy, horror and science-fiction. I'm also a history buff. I like to mix all of them together. My favorite video-game genres are RPG and Strategy, and it shows up in my ideas and characters.

I already posted my first foray into the forum, and explained four ideas I had. They were: "An Enlightenment Period Lovecraftian Horror Dungeon-Crawler", "Viking Colonization of North America Survival Fantasy", "UN Expedition into Alternate Dimension Medieval Fantasy World" and "Great Boer Trek in Space".

Hello, hello, and welcome! You're bound to find something you'll enjoy to do, I'm sure! You have what you want to do in mind already, so it's only a matter of time before people start speaking up.

Mind listing off some of your favorite video games? I love them and am curious.

Good luck and have fun!

@The Darklight Project Thanks, I hope to find like-minded people and have lots of fun.

My favorites are EU4 for mind-boggling grand-strategy, Darkest Dungeon for the sheer torturous fun, The Witcher 3 for the mind-blowing writing, Shadowrun games (recently Hong Kong) for the engrossing lore and setting, King of Dragon Pass for "beating your head against the wall" achievement, Far Cry 3&4 for the sweet, sweet subversion of expectations and open-world goodness...

That's just off the top of my head.

@RadioactiveRat Good choices, good choices. You're going to do just fine here.

@The Darklight ProjectI put my interest post in the "general" section. Was it a mistake, or should I return later and see who is interested?

Edit: I'm also confused by the divide between Free, Casual and Advanced.

@RadioactiveRat That should be okay for the time being, since it's already done. Leave it there for a little while, and see who comes. Not everyone is on 24/7, so people will be looking at it at different times. If you know what level of writing you want it to be though (free, casual, advanced), I'd edit the topic and add that in to the title and the tags, if you haven't done that yet. If you don't get much interest in the general section, then do an interest post in the section you specifically want to write for, and see what happens. Hopefully just giving it a little time will get you what you want, though.

Edit: Just saw your edit, working on adding that into here.

Edit's Edit: @RadioactiveRat So basically Free, Casual, Advanced are different levels of writing. Of them, Free is the most relaxed. It's where people who don't want to worry about grammar or being extremely in depth gather. Kinda like a "starter" section, for people who have never rp'ed before. Casual is a little more regulated, with better grammar expected, more work put into the posts, etc., etc. Advanced, meanwhile, is the most regulated, and the most is expected of a person. However, it isn't as daunting as it sounds. Advanced is technically described as "two paragraphs or more", so depending on what level of Advanced you want to roleplay, you'll find something that's comfortable for you. Does that help?

@The Darklight ProjectThanks a lot for your advice! I guess I fit in between casual and advanced. I'll wait and see what happens with my ideas - there are four of them, and each is developed enough (in my head), but I haven't fully committed to either one since I don't want to play with myself. I'll see how things go. There is a lot of activity here, I like this place!

@RadioactiveRat Happy to help! You're gonna have a blast, trust me.