RoA Community Chat Number Five
It has been around as long as I have, and low key, I've been a regular on rpol close to 20 years. I started as PC Swamprose, and at one point was DM Hydroninja (I think that was my handle). I had the Moonsea bubble.
I remember DM Annihilator, his future Mrs, and Raven. DM Raven was dope. She had some really neat encounters I truly enjoyed. This one time she had a giant bear, and me being the newb in the game was like, "Don't kill it! It's a bear and its mad because the cubs." But I convinced the party to subdue it, and then we even healed it. I think the game ended because of health or something.
I've never been a great fit. I like playing the "Jayne Cobb" or "Frank Castle" type of characters that are grey, or at least accidentally heroic. I always loved yhe end of Jaynestown, after he kills Stitch, and is like, "Whats wrong with you people? You think somebody is just going to dump a box of money on you? Money they can use? Well there ain't people like that. There's just people like me."
Priest: It's God's will!
Captain: You see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I ain't sayin y'all weren't easy to find, but you were a bit out of the way and he didn't wanna come. He's feeling a might ornary right now, looking to hurt some folk. I'd say it's his will you ought to be worried about.
Priest: But she's a witch!
Captain: Yeah. But she's our witch. Cut her down.
Or perhaps...
"I'll kill a man in a fight. I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or an unfair fight. Or if he starts a fight. Or if he looks like he's going to start a fight, or if he bothers me, or if there is a woman involved, or if I'm getting paid. Mostly just if I'm getting paid. But rapin an eatin people? When does that get fun?" *Looks confused*
I also ran into other hiccups. The realms allowed a lot of things I either didn't like or have access too. I always ran into a party with Tieflings or some class I didn't know what it was, and didn't have the heart to say, "I know this site allows that, but I dislike and am a hard no." Finally, I will always prefer Darksun or Ravenloft to the Realms. :/
I digress. I feel left out that I've never been in one of your games CatMan. Every time I've applied you've rejected me. I still watch the Player's Wanted thread. I either see new DMs with no longevity, or Rez advertising the same games week after week. When I see the same game being bumped week after week, it tells me the DM has trouble with player retention. That in turn tells me said DM runs off their own players or otherwise has a negative reputation. I've kept an active crew for my own game 8 years now with an ad for something specific about every 6mo or so, and I get flooded with RTJs. So I dunno. Maybe I got lucky.
I digress. I don't really want to see this place go splat. It has been here forever. I still use the character sheet I stole decades ago. :P