TBH I think for me the biggest priority lays in the technical side of site. I would like if Mahz got around to delegating some system of admins or sub-admins with the purpose of helping to implement features like PM deletion and letting you PM more people, upping security features to prevent the spambot infestations, finishing the search function, giving a bigger toolbox for mods to their jobs better and other quality of life stuff.

Regarding board merging as someone who's uses the tabletop section and thus is familiar with it, I'm gonna say no to merging nation rps with them. They lack any sort of proper mechanics to make them a tabletop game; yeah you might have some numbers or ranking or something used but that's not really a mechanic so much as it is an abstract rating. They're at best like a game of Diplomacy with made up nations and more flavor text.  Someone else mentioned them becoming more narrative oriented and if that's true than they're just more of a specific sub-set of rp.