I have been role playing and writing for the better part of two decades. By far my best experiences come from my humble beginnings as a real-time play-by-post role player on the serves of Battle.net through games such as Warcraft or Diablo. The achievements that brought me the most enjoyment were the collaborative efforts that established a static, yet concrete continental environment that brought about wars, spies, and other espionage. Another collaborative effort established a variety of fighting pits, a guild across that continent if you will the battles of which were gathered together on one website that allowed people to read our collective works. One particularly nasty battle had been created between two dragons, where I unwittingly encountered a dragon much younger than the dracolich that I had been writing for. Back then transparency was not always required as we experience here on the guild. Or there happened to be a particular role play between and few friends and I that developed into a few short stories and an epic sized adventure that I am still working on today. In fact, before the fall I had attempted to post a chapter of it to get some feed back on this website before the fall. Unfortunately, as I am sure many of you have experience the members at that time weren't exactly receptive. On any accord, little of that matters now. The guild has shifted into a place where varied skill or past reputation matter little.