Hello People, I am new

The problem with LoTM is that Rock gave Sideways (The now Head Admin) control of the site. Sideways certainly isn't the worst member that's been on SSBRP...but he's far from the best as well. No, I do not think I deserved such a spot as well.

Sideways...isn't on much...and when he is, he doesn't post. At all. Even in the Suggestion Forums.

He also rarely answers PMs. Of the 3 I've sent to him over the past 3 months, I have yet to have a reply. Then, I'd send another PM to him a week later to ask if he ever looked at it...still no reply.

His RPing isn't that great either. I mean, he gets the message across...but he's still a mostly One-Liner Poster.

To top that off, Iroh's main decision in picking him was that he was the member closest to Rock's age.

Hey, sounds like me!

From Rock's perspective, I imagine that he had some reason for sizing up Sideways as he did. Perhaps he wanted someone who could keep his site as much on the track he intended as possible, and so picked someone as similar to himself as possible. And similar he is, as by the sounds of it he's depending on everyone else to make the site a happy and active place while he plays and plots in the background, just like Rock used to do.

Of course, my assessment could be way off. I don't have the time to head over there and examine it in detail anymore. Have you guys been making a bunch of suggestions that just get ignored while the rest of the site goes stagnant? If so, you might be able to conspire with the rest of the staff to just charge ahead and implement a few, and then just go play the (now more interesting) game some more.

It's not worth just cutting through and making SSBRP our own, because it's not.
That, and I still don't understand why everyone loves stat-based so much, but I'll overlook that for now.

Anyways, if we want to get anywhere, we just have to make it ourselves instead of
A. Sitting around
B. Trying to do with something that isn't ours.

So, if you've all got suggestions that adhere to those guidelines, spit 'em out, boys.

Step 1. Get a forum.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Yay! Most awesome RP evar!!

Nice to see you, Headdy. In answer to your question, I have been doing quite well. Largely still spending my free time reading massive amounts of D&D and World of Darkness books, and playing certain varieties of both, of course. Other than the Internet, having those weekend RP sessions with my friends is pretty much my only social outlet. Still do a little bit of video gaming on the side once in a while. Games with a good story are just so hard to come by; I feel like my intellect has long outstripped the majority of the games out there. Let's see... I had the chance to play Tales of Symphonia, and since then it has bumped Chrono Trigger down to 2nd place for best game of all time, IMO. I can no longer say that I play enough games to definitively tell what game is truly the best, though. There are just too many and so little time. Still reading webcomics daily, and I'm pretty much always logged on to AIM and MSN these days. Oh, and I still work for the USAF. What about you? You still in college?

Man, it has literally been ages since I have chatted with Zeldwina. I wish she would drop by.

With everything else that has been occupying my time, I no longer really have a place in my life for running or developing a forum-based RP. However, if a friend were to ask me to become a moderator or just a plain player on an existing one that piqued my interest, I might or might not be able to make time for that. As always, I will give free advice for, but not participate in, forum RP design.

Idea: Everyone gets Gametable, then we set up a session of WoD-styled SSBRP XD

Lucca! It's good to hear from you again.

I actually graduated in December, and have been trolling for job offers ever since. For now, I'm working for a family friend's business - why pay money for an classified ad when you know someone who's available and knows what's going on already, eh?

In gaming terms, my friends and I play a lot of Shadowrun lately. One particular campaign has been successfully riding its wave of narrative randomness for over a year, which is... new, for us. We also kind of threw together a funky space variant of the game for further fun. I'm the only one in my group who hasn't actually been in charge of one of these campaigns yet, which is probably a good thing, since I seem to be a much better GM in writing, eheh.

...and my stance on forum-building vis-a-vis the lack of time on my hands has been discussed here somewhat already. Whoo.

Lloyd's sarcastic reference is surprisingly astute. Regarding Poultry's suggestion, from what I've heard and read, tabletop SSBRP would probably be best served by BESM. Heh.

You're a frickin' amazing GM in writing. Congrats on getting your BS and good luck with the career.

Actually, I haven't read the BESM system or even heard much about it beyond the very basic concept. Having not seen much anime or manga, I never really saw a reason to pick it up...

Thanks. I wish the best for you as well.

I never actually read the book myself, but through word of mouth and reviews I've gathered that it's similar to GURPS except less... needlessly complicated. Combine that with the fact that anime and videogames tend to have similar themes and would thus benefit from similar optional silliness, and we have grounds for my brain to relate it to the joke.

Granted, trying to relate this to the WoD rules would be even funnier...

I've convinced myself to help out LftM.

Yeah, what?

Played too much Master of Orion II, that's why. I am supposed to be the starship guy, after all.

Well, after reading this, I'm kinda at a loss of what to say. Maybe for starters I should say that I might have made a mistake in accepting Rock's offer. I mean, I already knew that I wouldn't be able to be on much at all until summer came and he offered the position to me how many months before? So, yeah, maybe I messed up.

About the PMs: at times I was able to get on, I usually had some kind of update or post or something I'd rather be doing or would forget about them, and never got around to it. I didn't realize -- well, I guess I did, but kinda pushed the thought to the back of my mind and told myself I'd get to it later. Which comes to a flaw of mine: Poor Time Management. So, I never did get to them and I'm sorry about that.

As to why Rock gave me the position, I can't say I know the real reason. At first, I just thought he gave it to me because he knew I'd try to keep his continuation of a fan fiction strait, but, now after reading this, I think that he might have given it to me because I never expressed anything against him in that huge flame war (I wasn't the only one, though). Or, it could have been that at the time that he was deciding who would be his successor, I was the least n00bish and most active at the time, though I doubt that's it. And to tell the truth, I'm probably younger than Rock thinks.

* Um... This playing and ploting in the background thing that I'm doing (well, actually, its more like doing very little in the background when I have time for the site) should be over soon. All next week, I'll have some free time and by the end of June, I should be back on doing something productive (or fun if the site is up and running by then) every day or two. Also, I guess another thing that has been keeping me from trying to get the site running is that I've kinda lost the passion I had in SSBRP when the site split and haven't felt like doing anything about it.

In short, I agree. I probably am not doing that good of a job at running SSBRP and there are a ton of people who could do it a lot better. After reading this topic and thinking about it, I'm considering stepping down myself when the site finally gets running (or before, because it might be my fault it doesn't get started; but, then again, while some people have been offering help, I don't know really what to give them to work on because I don't know what they can do, and for the most part, I have been alone (which may also be my fault as well...)).

If you guys really want the site to get active again and want to make suggestions, then feel free to get on SSBRP:LotM and start to do it yourselves. I obviously don't have enough time at the moment to dedicate to the site so I'm going to give any staff that want to help with the site permission to just do it without me. I might come back later and suggest a change or something though. If any of you guys reads this and decides that you do want to get SSBRP up and running again, I'll gladly post all of the things Rock/Iroh and I (and I guess Morden had some major things too) have complete or started so far.

And yes, I'm definitely not the best RPer out there, but I thought I had improved from being "half-decent". I mean, the way it was said makes it sound just a step about horrible. Take for example this post as my alt. on LotM. And that was from September of last year. I can assure you that I've increased in my ability to describe things going on since then.

@Jill: Just a quick question, if you don't think I deserved to be head of SSBRP (I'm in agreement with you, I don't deserve it) and you don't think you deserve it, who do you honestly think should be in charge of SSBRP?

After reading this entire thing over, I've re-thought the situation and the only things that I really think are preventing me from doing a good job on SSBRP:LotM are that I have little time at the moment to give to the site and that while, in my opinion, I'm good with the concepts of the battle mechanics but have trouble with coming up with the numbers (as I believe Morden (that's PolterGhost, right?) said). I'll admit that there are a bunch of people who could do the job better than me, but while I'm in control of SSBRP:LotM, I'm going to do my best to bring it back to its former glory as an RPing community!

hi very one