Roleplaying Forum, Could do with some cleaning up, don't ya think? Options

[The Welsh Paddy]

So yeah... I've been looking through the RP forum. I don't know about you guys, but I think it looks too messy and unorganised, not to mention out-dated. I also noticed that it has very little activity, so it may not matter all that much. However, as an avid forum RP-er (Well, not so much these days, but I like to make a bit of time for it.) I feel that this should be brought to attention, and I do have a few suggestions to make. I would like to think this would draw more activity back to the RP section, but then that all depends on members interest in it, so in that respect I think it would be worth setting up a poll.

But anyways...

1. Archiving out-dated topics: I think it may be worth having a sub-forum for these or, if you would prefer, just to delete them. I know you already have a "Noteworthy Topics" section in The Tavern, so maybe shift them over there? I think this alone would clear up a lot of the mess.

2. Pinned Topics: There are a fair few of these in the section. I think the pinned topics should only be limited to the rules for the forum and any announcements.

3. Active RPs and Sign-up/Discussion Topics: To make things a lot more organised, I think a sub-forum for any RP Sign-Up and Discussion topics would be worth making. That way it keeps them seperate from the main RP topics, which would be made in the main section, thus making things look neater. Also, the Sign-ups/Discussion sub-forum would also provide a place for those who wish to put up their character bios in the forum, in their own topic.

By no means are these demands or anything, because I know the focus of thise forum as a whole isn't RPing. It's just that if the forum is gonna be there, it may as well be done good, right?

[Sparrowsmith]

A forum adventure is basically a second-person narrative (usually with pictures, sometimes without.)

MSPA forum holds the monopoly on them, but I have seen other forums use them to some effect.
Prequel is an adventure that reached such popularity it now hosts on its own site. However, it started on MSPA, and all of the commands come from either there or from the website it is no hosted on. The character's name, personality, and adventure is mostly decided by the reader.
Rubyquest is an example of a forum adventure, it was hosted on 4chan and is actually pretty damned good.

Most adventures however look more like This They're wacky, almost unintelligible at times, and just good fun.
They'd probably be better to run in the Fun and Games section of the forum, but some of them are a Higher Standard than others.

They're pretty fun. I actually run one on MSPA.
This is the only dwarf fortress adventure I could find, but I'm sure there are more... somewhere.

So yeah, probably more suited for Fun and Games, but there could be some crossover.

Edit: Found another Sort of Dwarf Fortress Adventure.