by The Kingpin » Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:44 am
That former project sounds like it takes a bit of inspiration from The Wolf Among Us, too.
I'm really glad that the site has had the impact it has on you. In the end, that was the hope. I wanted a place that was fun and useful. Something you could immerse yourself in and forget the world, that you could come out the other side saying it's benefitted you.
But as mentioned further up, I honestly doubt the site will be able to come back to a truly active state. What's happened is a combination of a couple of things. The first is that most of the members have moved on to different things. The only ones still writing are you, me, HF and CS. CS is off doing his own thing atm and honestly, writes at a pace I no longer have the energy to keep up with consistently. HF and I write on and off in Google Docs projects that are largely offshoots of FRPG.
The second thing that's happened is that Forums as a platform for younger users for things like roleplay are dying out. There are more reactive, more popular platforms that have come into existence that serve the same role but are much less bulky. Discord, for instance. I could, in theory, fully transition RPGT to Discord with zero problems. The only real problem would be the word count limit per post, but that could be worked around.
So yeah, I hate to admit it, but the way things are going now, a combination of life's responsibilities and technology has just made the RPGTopia webforum obsolete. I'll keep checking in, of course. I'll keep posting if there's enough ways to plausibly interact. But if it's just two or three people, it's only delaying the inevitable. We'd need about 5 to keep a cohesive, multi-faceted RP story going. Otherwise it's more a collaborative fiction than a roleplay. Which, don't get me wrong, is still a perfectly valid writing approach. But it's not something webforums are well suited for. There are better ways to do it [like Google Docs, for instance].
If this were 5-8 years ago I'd probably have grumbled about this not being the right topic for it. But eh. Another issue of forums is that it's so cumbersome when conversations drift away from the original topic. So **** it. We're here for now. We can move over to the Random topic going forward from here. :U
"Ah yes, organised chaos. the sign of a clever but ever-busy mind. To the perpetrator, a carefully woven web of belongings and intrigue, but to the bystander? Madness!"
–William Beckett, Lore of Leyuna RPG