[quote=Chapatrap]
I've been RP'ing on and off in the Casual section for a few years now (pre-guildfall) but I usually stuck with a group of guys on the old forum I was on. On the old forum, it was generally split into 'Hardcore' and 'Casuals', which are the equivalent of RPGuild 'Advanced' and 'Free'. Hardcore RP'ers generally stuck together and we all had a big thing of making original RP's (usually nation based). It was a bit of a culture shock when all of these guys and I decided to migrate over to RPGuild for good and found that the Advanced section contained Anime RP's (among other things we would never have found more in the Hardcore circle of the old forum).The Advanced section, to me, seems to be a bit of a ghost town and the few RP's that do exist in it seem to be anime/canon RP's, which I have little interest in doing (Star Wars RP's are my weak spot). So I find myself now looking through Casual and Nation's for something interesting that'll let me write a bit and is at least original. I'm having little luck so far. I'm considering GM'ing but with the success rate of RP's on this site so low, I'm not even sure it's worth it.
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There's a lot of (justifiable) defeatism here that's kind of self-perpetuating.

If you don't go into the Advanced Section because it's not busy enough, you don't contribute to it or help it to grow into a busier, more active section.

Also, if you won't create the kind of RP you want to be in (for whatever reason), you really aren't in a position to complain that that RP hasn't been created. If it doesn't take off or dies, it's not an idea that's gone forever and been wasted. Put it in the mushroom cupboard, see what grows and bring it back with a better understanding of what worked and what didn't. I think you're exaggerating the proportion of canon RPs in Advanced anyway. Scrolling through the first page of threads, I counted ten (out of thirty) that were probably canon-inspired (I don't recognise a lot of the things that tend to have fans that RP).

Your defeatism is understandable because RPing can be frustrating, but it doesn't actually help your situation.