K
Kestrel
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I began role-playing on an amateur game making site's pulled into it by some other members. Said site closed it's section close after said section one half died and the other went to shit. The GM moved to some small site, but I also started looking for a dedicated role-playing site.
First I ended up on gateway, but it was so vast and anonymous I never really settled in. I then joined roleplayerguild, where my first thought was upon finding the right section for my supposed skill level (assuming it's be middling at best cause this was a dedicated role-playing site) "Wait this is advanced? Half of it has lower standards than what I am used to."
And then I got into a fight with my first GM on that site about godmoding. Good fun.
The guild was great for the most part. Despite being big, the segregation of sections made it feel smaller and more cohesive. For the longest time, Fonz cool was practice and the site was overall a chill experience. Outside of drama behind the curtains which I admittedly greatly enjoyed. It taught me a bunch of stuff about role-playing and people management. You could also be a dick as long as you were a fair dick with good points. Which eventually and maybe inevitably, snowballed into you can try really hard to be like @Jorick. Which was first contained in the so-called 'condom' of the guild AKA the spam section. But because just like AIDS doesn't really stay in your genitals and circulates the bloodstream, as such it bled into other sections. To pacify it, and to keep the metaphor going, the staff tried to have sex with it. Did not work out. They were overwhelmed by disease and some became part of it.
Meanwhile. Or more like, in forever, the owner's loose attitude that made a lot of the guild great, forced a lot of decisions on a less than stable or unified team. The only capable leader we had, whether you liked her or not, got promoted irl and joined the hands off approach full time. Then, due to life circumstances I know little to nothing about, the owner did not pay their bills and the site was terminated without warning. Causing a lot of people to lose a lot of writing. The reformed guild felt like it was on life support. The owner made lofty promises about custom coding content, but before that went anywhere the AIDS, corruption and mostly the insecurity surrounding it's continued survival, motivated me to try my luck somewhere else. Iwaku was one of 2-3 sites I tried.
First I ended up on gateway, but it was so vast and anonymous I never really settled in. I then joined roleplayerguild, where my first thought was upon finding the right section for my supposed skill level (assuming it's be middling at best cause this was a dedicated role-playing site) "Wait this is advanced? Half of it has lower standards than what I am used to."
And then I got into a fight with my first GM on that site about godmoding. Good fun.
The guild was great for the most part. Despite being big, the segregation of sections made it feel smaller and more cohesive. For the longest time, Fonz cool was practice and the site was overall a chill experience. Outside of drama behind the curtains which I admittedly greatly enjoyed. It taught me a bunch of stuff about role-playing and people management. You could also be a dick as long as you were a fair dick with good points. Which eventually and maybe inevitably, snowballed into you can try really hard to be like @Jorick. Which was first contained in the so-called 'condom' of the guild AKA the spam section. But because just like AIDS doesn't really stay in your genitals and circulates the bloodstream, as such it bled into other sections. To pacify it, and to keep the metaphor going, the staff tried to have sex with it. Did not work out. They were overwhelmed by disease and some became part of it.
Meanwhile. Or more like, in forever, the owner's loose attitude that made a lot of the guild great, forced a lot of decisions on a less than stable or unified team. The only capable leader we had, whether you liked her or not, got promoted irl and joined the hands off approach full time. Then, due to life circumstances I know little to nothing about, the owner did not pay their bills and the site was terminated without warning. Causing a lot of people to lose a lot of writing. The reformed guild felt like it was on life support. The owner made lofty promises about custom coding content, but before that went anywhere the AIDS, corruption and mostly the insecurity surrounding it's continued survival, motivated me to try my luck somewhere else. Iwaku was one of 2-3 sites I tried.