Alrighty!

The forums have been upgraded to the latest phpBB version and we have lost user integration with WordPress. However, BBCode finally works again. This is what most people, including myself, agreed was best.

Things may be offline for the next day or so while I get things up to date.

[Edit is below]

The website is up-to-date. The forums, however, are rather out-of-date. I have been using a plugin called WP-United that has successfully integrated the WordPress accounts and the phpBB3 accounts for the forums. This means if you log into the forums, you’re also logged into the site and vice versa. The same goes for registering an account. With WP-United, if you’re registered in WordPress, you’re automatically registered on the forums.

The issue is that the forums are on phpBB 3.0.14 and the latest version of phpBB is 3.1.5. The forums are so out of date, we can’t even use BB code. It’s just no longer supported. In order to update to the latest version of phpBB (3.1.5), we’ll have to say goodbye to WP-United and the user integration it offers us as WP-United does not work with phpBB 3.1.

Other plugins that can replace WP-United either are very poorly supported and may not work or require payment for up to $40 a year. Seeing as Meridia Island is not very active, I cannot justify this especially with the regular domain and hosting costs that I am already paying.

Here are the options we have:

• Lose user integration to have full phpBB forum support OR
• Lose full phpBB forum support to have user integration.

I will be making a decision soon after some input from the community.

Saturday, April 25th.
2pm Pacific (though really at any point, people will be loitering).

Reunion/Get together party in IRC.
Credit goes to Ketara & Cid on this.

Chat = irc.chatspike.net
Room = #RPG
Can use the chat client here on Meridia too.

See you all there.

Anywho. Now that my insides appear to be more-or-less working again.

Boss-lady and Scarth and allegedly at least one other have discussed possibility of making a dedicated Server/Realm in Minecraft for #RPG.

Minecraft Realms service seems simple and cheap, but has an unfortunate limitation of:
1) No mods.
2) 20 max members, 10 max online at once.
https://minecraft.net/realms

Have been looking at alternatives as well.
Example:
https://mcprohosting.com/

Anyone have thoughts?
If we launch this, anyone willing to play?

It’s been months since a first page post.

We haven’t had anything happening so there have been no announcements to make.

There are no RPGs running although there is talk from a few people about possibly starting a few RPGs. There isn’t much hope of anything running really soon due to essentially everyone being busy with their lives (this also means it’s been a really long time since I’ve put any work into beefing up this site as much as I’d like). That said, the community is still alive in chat (IRC) and the Facebook groups started by the After Era and especially the MSG Wars community lines are still active.

This site will remain open for the foreseeable future and if there is anything noteworthy to report it will be posted here by myself or any of the other officers.

Stay safe, I hope the Americans have had a nice Turkey Day, that everyone who engaged in Black Friday and Cyber Monday got some sweet deals and that everyone is looking forward to a nice and relaxing holiday season among friends and families.

For those of you who have been having difficulties with connecting to irc.chatspike.net on your mIRC apps and programs, a work around has been shared by Sakura/Anastasia/Meiko. You can connect to #RPG using the following: chatspike.konata.ca. We will let you know if it changes. Thank you for your attention.

~Strikey

So, I’m starting up a new World of Darkness play-by-post forum game with the assistance of another veteran World of Darkness storyteller. The game is a cross of limited-run with long term stories (a number of out-of-character days is equal to a single in-character day, and each story is slated to run approximately 30 in-character days, though there’s some wiggle room). At the moment, we’ll be supporting both Changeling: the Lost and Geist: the Sin-Eaters with their own individual stories (at the beginning, I’ll be handling mostly the Geist side of things while my co-ST will be handling mostly Changeling, though we’re both well versed in both games and able to swap between them).

The game will be starting in the next few weeks and be run from a set of forums (located at http://mountroyal.rawrgh.com/forums), with an attached wiki and IC news site. I’ve also registered a channel on ChatSpike specifically for the game, located at #mountroyal – so there’s a communication method for those who don’t visit #RPG. We’re currently in the “what do you need to know about the setting” and character discussion/creation phase, so stop by if you’re interested. Or just ask me questions in the chat or whatever.

Why Should I Play…

Changeling: 

Stolen from the life you knew, dragged into a twisted realm of maddened nightmare, and changed into something not entirely human; forced into servitude, tortured and punished with no real rhyme or reason, and traded as commodities; a daring escape, twisted thorns eating away your memories of the madness, and returned to the mortal world only to find something had taken your place. As one of the Lost, not quite of the fairy tale world of Faerie and not quite of the mundane human world, it’s all about finding your place in the world and, maybe, recovering a little bit of what was stolen from you (or going mad trying)…

Montreal is home to a unique system amongst the Lost – a freehold not dominated by any particular court system, instead embracing all the courts of the world, with power shared in what loosely resembles a democratic government of by the freehold for the freehold. Or it would be, ideally. The byzantine politics of the various courts seem only to have been magnified by their separation from the freehold and the disparity between one court and the next is amplified, divided instead of unified by their experimental government.

Geist:

Death comes for everyone. It’s a different experience for everyone, deeply personal. It came for you – but you weren’t ready to give up and the thing that came to you in your last moments was willing to cut a deal. For you, death would have to wait. You awoke as one of the Bound – right into a world that you never knew existed. Your new found connection with one of the little gods of death has opened your eyes to the world of the dead around you. And opened their eyes to you. With some effort, you can shut them out, long enough to realize you’ve been given a second chance – what do you do with it?

Once the Bound had a massive presence in Montreal but that brotherhood was broken from within. Now, decades later, a handful of disparate krewes continue to eke out an existence in a city drenched in the duality of life and death. Loyalty to the krewe and its mission, whatever it’s decided to be today, comes first and everyone else is either with you or against you.

We’ve hit a long draught as of late, but there’s a new RPG currently open and running. It’s another iteration of Era of Chaos. Please sign up and check it out here.

Enjoy

Have a Merry Christmas

A Happy Kwanzaa

A Wonderful Winter Solstice

And an Amazing Athiest Children Get Presents Day!