Who even needs judges. If people aren’t obsessed with winning, they’ll concede for the sake of the story.
Now who wants to GM this shit.
Now who wants to GM this shit.
Who even needs judges. If people aren’t obsessed with winning, they’ll concede for the sake of the story.
Now who wants to GM this shit.
Zero infrastructure. Your answer isn't in yet ANOTHER friggen tournament... God, someone please stop that trend. Its like beating a dead horse around here. Tournaments and Safe Spaces don't build community.
Also as someone who participated in the Arena format for nearly twenty years I can't say I think anything Dias has mentioned are ideas I think are fundamentally good at any level.
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That's where you're wrong. It built my community and it's slowly growing. I just have the wherewithal to capitalize on it and do a lot of the work-load to make things happen.
Fair point. But in regards in this place? Your tournament is the only one I know of on here that's actually finished. I'm just saying, people keep trying to suggest running a tournament as if that'll fix this Arena's problem even though that experiment has already been attempted by them. I'm saying what they really need is a legitimate overhaul and start incorporating NEW ideas instead of thinking they already got this thing figured out.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”- Albert Einstein
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20 years in Arena format and yet between your current account and that Gowi account, you collectively only have 1 fight in your own community's Arena? (A fight that apparently never even finished...) And you've been here collectively 5 years? I didn't know being a spectator counted. =P
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He said he "participated in the arena" format. Clearly it wasn't here.
Which means literally nothing. If he's gonna boast about 20 years of playing in the Arena, but has literally nothing to show for it in his own community's Arena forum, then the smart move is to just not even mention it. Literally one of the suggestions I made was that an actual Rulebook be created for the Arena, which he also claimed was "fundamentally not a good idea." And his only reasoning was because 20 years of experience? At that point, yeah, I'm gonna start to question his credibility.
Dias has literally given the best proposal
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It is very true that I haven't participated in a meaningful manner in RPG's Arena. But trying to invalidate my perspective because of that is really immature and nonsensical.
Also, Dias, all I said was essentially that I disagree with you not that I had any constructive counterpoints.
This kind of hostility and condescension is only proof of strengthing the perception of Arena as having a toxic sentiment.
If you think "talking shit" is an excuse of being antagonistic then I don't think Arena getting better and becoming more inviting is going to happen.
Invalidating an experienced RPer's thoughts is counterproductive to reforming Arena, not that I particularly care personally.
Also, I will amend my point and stating a clear and concise rulebook would be a good idea if the community as a whole could even agree on the approach we want to take.
Eh. I don't particularly vibe with any of the ideas. I can see the appeal of them (and have seen some of them in process), but fundamentally by my perspective, I don't really think they are good for helping reform RPG's Arena like so many people want to do here. If you want to be more inviting more competitiveness won't really bring in new interested parties.
But I do think most of your ideas won't work because it's just "let's rework and add systems nobody cares about!"
in the case of idea 4 "let's make something that isn't anything like arena to trick people into RPing here!"
I think all that really has to happen is that people have to start showing less toxicity to "outsiders" and actually try to make the newby tourney work.
You know, nothing is stopping you from doing all of that without the site's support.
Complaining about infrastructure when you have all the tools you need to build that infrastructure is like dying of thirst because you're too lazy to draw water from a well.
uninvited dumbass who doesn't participate in arena.
I wasn't invalidating your perspective, I was invalidating your supposed 20 year record
So you disagree with something even though you have no actual reasoning for doing so?
You picked a fight with the wrong person, padre.
Talking shit is LITERALLY the act of antagonizing, I don't know why you're writing that as if the two are different things. And with people like you stalking around this place yeah, I'm inclined to agree, although I would apply that same logic to the entire site. Its Elitists like you who ultimately cause the death of communities.
Facts over Feelings, chief.
Let's add some more perspective here, I am NOT from RPGuild. This is not my community. This is not my forum. I am exactly the "outsider" demographic you guys are talking about.
Crazy how so many are willing to complain about it here and I have yet to see them post in the area in months. Being apart of the arena when it was booming with activity means nothing to me, but sticking through the shit it’s in now is a respectful grind.