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Post by Cerridwen on Sept 28, 2006 0:24:45 GMT -5
I don't know if it's just me feeling crabby because it's that time again or what but I'm kind of getting truned off by my own forum. I'm starting to feel that the posters have lost sight of the reason that I created this forum. Now there's all sorts of strange and bizzar things poping up in various threads. I don't mind creativity and creative character concepts but this morning when I was reviewing recent threads I was about to join one when I found myself truned off of posting by the concept of one of the characters. This has never happened to me before, I have never been turned off of posting on a thread because of a caracter concept of a fellow poster. It made me think about what kind of changes the forum is going through. So now I pose a poll to all posters on this forum. I want to know what everyone thinks.
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Post by LordStripetail on Sept 28, 2006 7:46:46 GMT -5
I think reform is necessary to a certain degree. This forum was set up as a Redwall site, and to a certain degree that is no longer the case. I'm not sure how to go about reforming the forum, My guess wiould be to limit the types of creatures that can be played.
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Post by taggle on Sept 28, 2006 7:51:54 GMT -5
yea. limiting characters you can play, and nithing to far fetched from the books. like i was in a redwall site oince some guy tried to get a GUN in a redwall roleplay... you can imagine how well that went over.
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Post by Flight on Sept 28, 2006 9:23:51 GMT -5
Fascinating.That guy must be having some trouble focusing or just plain bored.Personally,I think that reforming to a certain degree is neccisary,and that we should keep the characters' spieces within the ones found in the books.And as I've said before,we should limit the use of magic,seeing as it isn't really Redwall.
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Post by LordStripetail on Sept 28, 2006 9:29:54 GMT -5
Cerriswen is a woman flight, and without her we wouldn't have this forum...
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Post by sekraktaa on Sept 28, 2006 10:23:34 GMT -5
From my POV, everything seems fine to me, though I think I can understand the way you feel.
There are players who like to focus on the original Redwall world, then there are other players who prefer other and new locations for their RP's, expanding the world like that. Like me, for example.
Originally, I intended on just playing on the "Forgotten Continent" and "Magic Realms". Then I wanted to bring in a new character, the crocodile mage Katarn-Revor, and introduce him in a more Redwallish area. So I posted the RP in the "Edge of Mossflower", and because nobody seemed to have objections about it, I thought it to be alright.
I think, one of the major solutions for the problem if we part the Forum into separate domains/areas/fields or whatever you like to call them. In the first area, you can RP in all the original places, but only if you stick clearly to the books. No magic, no dragons or anything supernatural. New species would be fine however, for as long as they are species also existing in reality. Like crocodiles, tigers, etc...
In the second area, you would be able to RP both in the original Redwall places as well as other locations from the "Expanded Redwall Universe", maybe even making your own places/locations/landmarks. Within this board, you could, to a certain degree of course, RP as whatever species you like and use things like magic. It would also be open for new types of monsters and enemys like goblins or ogres, if the players choose to be a little bit more fantasy.
I think, that you way you would satisfy both the RPers who prefer the original Redwall, as well as those who prefer only Redwall-based RP's.
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Post by Redstripe the Strong on Sept 28, 2006 16:04:58 GMT -5
I too think it is aight with how it is already, but it has strayed away. I chose other because a reform dosn't really seem necesarry, but maybe more strict rules. Some people have tried to change certain things around, nothing against you Sek-Rataa, but when I first joined, animals not featured in the books were limited only to the Forgotten Continent. But, as I have said to many people on manys sights, It is your site, do as you wish.
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Post by sekraktaa on Sept 28, 2006 16:13:56 GMT -5
That's why I think the idea with the separation into "Redwall original" and "Redwall expanded/edited" would be handy. As I said, both sides of players would be satisfied and RP's are easier to assign. And if a situation should occur, that one player starts a thread in "RO" or "RE/E" and another player from the "other side of the river" becomes interested in joining the RP, the potential player could PM the started of the player whether or not he would copy and paste his RP into the domain of the potential player, so that the potential player is able to join the RP freely with his characters.
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Post by Redstripe the Strong on Sept 28, 2006 16:25:17 GMT -5
Yeah, thats a cool Idea. Like a separate world that still concentrates on the animalistic thought Redwall. Kinda like the title of the site, Beyond Redwall.
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Post by sekraktaa on Sept 28, 2006 16:30:35 GMT -5
That's the idea. We would have one Redwall-world-pure, and another one making it possible to... well. Experiment a little, if you want to call it that way. Of course, there is always the possibility of thinks getting a little out of hand, like characters or items becoming all powerful or something like that. But I think, that we're all either adults or at least mature enough to settle this pirvately, either in the RP itself or by using PM.
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Post by Redstripe the Strong on Sept 28, 2006 16:42:46 GMT -5
Or a violent nuclear war...But yeah the whole prospect of another area is awsome, but there would need to be more moderators and such.
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Post by sekraktaa on Sept 28, 2006 16:46:12 GMT -5
*Shrug* Nothing's for free.
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Post by Cerridwen on Sept 28, 2006 18:40:24 GMT -5
I did add boards and sections later on after the origional creation of the forum and the origional sections and boards to appease the wants of the posters. I stated that the boards in the Forgotten Continent were for nonRedwall species and I created a special place for magic using threads. I can't please everyone but I do try for a happy median. There have been quite a few strays out of their special areas. I will make my decision once I think this poll has run long enough. This means I'll probably do whatever I decide on doing within a couple weeks. So say you piece by then.
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Post by sekraktaa on Sept 29, 2006 6:30:35 GMT -5
Your intentions and ideas were good in doing them, but what I believe is responsible for these strays are, that these boards are somewhat marking specific regions. From my own experience, it was somewhat hard for me to decide on which board I should post my RP and choose the boards for their locations. For example, as I started "Cipactli: Enter the Crocodile", I wanted to play in a more Redwallish scenery. Somewhere within Mossflower, with the possibility to head towards Salamdastron or Redwall abbey. However, the boards on the forgotten continent and the magic realm either didn't had anything to do with the original scenery at all or didn't seem to do so. So, you could say that I was in a way "forced" to post the RP outside of the forgotten continent and the magic realm. And from this experience, I think that this might be the source for the strays.
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Post by Gyre on Sept 29, 2006 13:07:15 GMT -5
I voted yes. I don't think it's a huge problem, but it seems to be drifting a little. This is the first time I've really gotten into ann RPG, so I'm sort of learning as I go.. I don't know that I would see a problem starting or not. Personaly, I feel there's too much magic, zombie/undead/cursed things going around, Redwall is just a normal place.. magic in the books is rather rare. (beyond superstisions and religeous things that accure in RL.) and too much.. sort of takes the magic out of it. No pun intented. And thank you, Cerridwen for being patiant and persistant with this. When people start using their imagination it's hard to limit yourself.  |
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