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New Guild Features

• The Dot Crisis of 2015: Are "Your Mom" Jokes Back for Good? Check out the randomness that occurs in the ALL NEW RPG CHATROOM! This immersive exercise in idiosyncratic beliefs and hypocritical elaborations can be found Right Here!
• Friends, Roleplayers, Countrymen! Users can now add friends, and a "friends" box with "last online" dates is now visible on the homepage! Perhaps this is a predecessor to the Stalker Wall's return?
• Arena Rankings! The Arena now has official rankings.
• And many more that you can view here; there's a lot under the hood. I just listed the ones that you guys have probably already noticed.

Thought Experiment

This question was originally asked in the chatroom, and I forgot to make a note of who suggested it. In any case, credit to you, wise person seeking people’s opinions on a fascinating matter!

Consider your characters, your favorite characters. Do you treat them as separate entities, or as extensions of yourself? How do you render their personalities and traits, if they are intended to be different from your own mannerisms?

Share the Experience

An interesting list of various inspirations, literary, musical and movie, that we consider inspirational to RP.

Share the Experience

Music/Album: Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)

_{Back when he was still black. It predates the zombie fad, but let’s face it…it also helped contribute to its cool factor.}

Movie: Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan

_{As Empire to Star Wars, so Khan is to Star Trek movies. Empire would have gone here, except it is not on Netflix right now…}

Book: The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy (1987)

_{On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia - and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia - driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches - into a region of total madness.}

More Music: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1986)

_{While still using some of the methods of the hair rock of the era, Guns N’ Roses definitely set a different tone for it; it was morbid music that sang love songs to heroin and hookers rather than ‘lookin’ for a good time’ hair rock like most of the stuff out there. And yes, the band did manage one more (double) album before self destructing from an excessive lifestyle and a lot of drug use.}

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.

Notable Roleplays

Free

- Myriad Reality - GM: @DarkwolfX37

Casual

- Tales of the Black Order - GM: @Arthanus

Advanced

- Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath - GM: @Ellri

Tabletop Roleplay

- The Edge of Damnation - GM: @Lone Wanderer

Nation Roleplay

- Civilization – New Lands, New Glory - GM: @Chenzor

Arena

- The Stand - GM: @PaulHaynek

About RPGN

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RPGN Staff

RPGN Staff (in order of greatest dislike for Deloreans)

@RomanAria
@Impaqt
@Noxious
@HeySeuss
@Byrd Man
@Kirra

Delorean, plutonium and banner provided by: @Impaqt

[Ellri]

'tis lovely to see our Aftermath featured up there. To anyone curious about it: don't hesitate to ask questions. We keep the players who'd bite muzzled. The ones who'd lick you are not muzzled, though.

Is the "looking ahead" section meant to look 7-8 months into the future? Or is the month chosen for that section incorrect?

A wild idea for the notable RP section in the future... How about when you pick them, you ask the GMs if they're willing to provide a brief 3-4 line description of their RP? That might help spark interest in the RPs in question more than a mere name does, and it could get more folks to read the RPGN.

[Impaqt]

@Ellri As you can tell, by looking at the date on the banner as well, we had some issues with the Delorean. Not enough Plutonium or something like that. We're working on retrieving some more and the dates will be fixed. (As soon as Heyseuss gets around to changing the contest thing and switching out the banner for one with the correct date.)

[Ellri]

Heh. Saw that and took that connection. Which is why we didn't comment the banner.

We'd have contacted him directly, but he wasn't within reach right now.

[Mahz]

Didn't even notice the date until I clicked in to the thread and read yall's posts.

[RPGN]

Date inaccuracies and so forth have been fixed. Whoops.