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Boredom Needs a Hype Man

Wayne said
I gotta try Roll20 out then.

It's definitely worth it.

Granted, the stuff Jorick mentioned is still useful and does help to improve the experience.
But Roll20 is all that's actually needed to get going.

Zoe Quinn.

Bioware has slowly been having it's executive staff replaced by EA.

They also cut out most of their writer's for the ending of Mass Effect 3.
Now I fully expected the ending to not live to fans expectations, unlike most fans I'm not mad because you can't run off with Liara and have Asari babies.
But seriously, let your writers take part in the god damn ending!

Plus you can tell with each Bioware game released they're getting more streamlined, and DLC & Micro Transaction based.

I grew up on two games (real young) honestly, Halo and Kotor. There were some others like Gladius that had good hours in them, but Halo and Kotor were the main two. And once Mass Effect came out when I was 12 that became my holy grail of all games for the longest time. Never had that title taken away until Tell Tales Walking Dead came out (and even then, it was debatable until Season 2's ending. After that ending Telltale just stole the title outright). And Dragon Age became my older versions Gladius, had a lot of hours in it so it played a big role, but it was not the huge childhood influence that Mass Effect and Kotor were.

So seeing Bioware die out, is like watching my childhood die out. The only thing making it easier to bare is that I now have TellTale to escape to for games with rich story and choices that I originally could only get from Bioware.

~Complaint List~ I'm very serious!

When did you start roleplaying? Share your RP story here!

It all started the summer of 2008 before I was just starting High School.

Having 2 months of summer to kill I was scrolling through the Internet, being a rather big Star Wars fan I joined a site called Star Wars Combine. It's essentially a real time star wars game, join a faction, do work etc. Me, being the Munchkin I am went ahead and made the character most like possible to be a Jedi, a Gand Swordsman and with the random name Generator he was called Duvnar Magnum. Almost immediately I tried to join the New Republic, do the typical "Fight the Empire" thing. They accepted me (as they do everyone), and as part of their response message linked the site's RP page to kill time in while I was waiting for them to sort out paperwork and stuff (The NR eventually proved disorganized and I never actually was able to join or sign up for training).

So I was sure "Sure, why not?" and checked out the forum RPs. The first RP I joined is one I would always remember, and I made a number of friends there who I would partake in many future RPs with.
Note, with this system it wasn't a "Make an Interest Check for each RP and they all separate", all the RPs we did were with the same characters, they just took different places on an overall timeline. Allowing for very long plots, character development and bonds to be created. This lasted for a while, where at one point I got a friend of mine back from Kindergarten who I still talk to today to sign up and join as well. But there was one issue happening... Admins. The Admins had this one huge issue with "You can't use stuff in the RP that you don't physically own on Combine!", and was cracking down harder lately... and note this included NPCs. So we couldn't even fight storm troopers without owning NPC storm troopers.

I was pissed and essentially went "Fuck this! I made a new site, who wants to come with me?". And literally every active person ditched the Combine's forum RP and joined the one I made... The Combine forums to this day have not recovered from that. And now that we had so much more freedom our role play's exploded, there were far more plots to explore, characters to develop etc. This lasted for a little over a year, only switching sites once in order to update the engine. Occasionally we had new people come in over time adding to our players, eventually to a point where half of our members were those who were never on the Combine forums. And we were all rather good friends too, to the point that three of the people there were even constantly trying to give me advice for whenever the day would happen that I'd get a girlfriend.

But eventually we were hitting the end of our year long plot-line, we ended it with a giant bang and everyone had a memory to last the ages. However, over time our power level had been slowly increasing, and it got to the point where once that Big Bang happened, we were at such a power level it just didn't feel the same refreshing and starting over with new characters... or keeping our current characters and doing a "What happened after?" sort of thing for too long. So that pretty spelled out the end to the site and community, people slowly dripped away. But some of us stayed together for a bit longer cause one of us spotted the RolePlayers Guild and invited the rest of us.

But it didn't take too long for everyone else to eventually vanish, to the point it was just me and the person who originally found the Guild were still on the Guild. And even then, after about a years time he was gone as well. So I had joined the Guild somewhere around Grade 10, and have stuck around ever since (I'm in my 3rd year of college now to give an idea of how long I've been around for).

Soooo, what happened to Mahz?

Kaga said There have been much longer periods of (apparent) inactivity from Mahz in the past. I assure you, he hasn't forgotten about us.For starters, he promised us WOTM managers that our Contest subforum was on the way not that long ago. So that's something.

RPGC was promise the same, and three months later this has yet to happen for either of us.

I always liked Mahz, hell back when the old site shut down I snapped at those criticising Mahz bad enough I myself almost needed Admin intervention.
But I am honestly worried that this site isn't going to last. Not just from Mahz's lack of activity, but from how activity on the site in general seems to of been dropping rather than rising.

Boredom Needs a Hype Man

Roll20 alone honesty does it.

You get maps, music, dice roller, character sheet storage, custom monster storage, voice chat, measuring tools etc.
I've used it for a campaign before, it is entirely capable of running a table top group on it's own.

Spam is a test

I just noticed spam is in the test category, not the Off-Topic category.

Today is international BACON DAY!!!!

The solution is easy... Just go to Golden Griddle and eat Bacon to your hearts content.

You might end up in the Hospital almost immediately after, but god dammit you had all you can eat bacon!

Rate the Signature Above You

9/10

I'd hate to fight such a thing in D&D,

Rate the Signature Above You

7/10

Nice gif, even if I don't know where it's from.