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An Open Letter to SDRP.

Dear SDRP,

We find ourselves in a rather disagreeable state, that is, we’re at a stand-still. So many broken dreams scatter the forums it is hard to step through without gaining a shard in one’s foot from all the explosive destruction brought about by negligence and withdrawal. Yet, it was a slow explosion, a writhing if you will, that brought us to where we are today, which is quite possibly nowhere. This is rather unfortunate.

I believe it is time to change that, and in an effort to realize this guild in its full unbridled glory it will take more than myself to bring about the necessary changes to make this guild a lively place again.

Would you join me?

Yes, I’m asking you, dear members of SDRP, to bring about change and direction within our once-fruitful guild to make it so again! We have a -suggestion box- for discussion, with better details on my current vision, which I hope to make your vision, or if your vision is better, than to make your visions known! We must all share in this process so that we can begin anew, to give the up-and-coming roleplayers of Gaia a place to ply their skills without judgment or reprimand, to make them better so that they can experience the joys of thinking in someone else’s head in another’s world for a day.

I won’t lie, it’s a tough job that I have balked at for several months (if you notice, I’ve been active in my one-on-one’s for the past few months while the guild has died), and I am intimidated by the task at hand, which is to clean and tidy and make the guild presentable while at the same time attracting the legions required to both run and populate this project.

But this is not my project, or rather, it shouldn’t be, it should be ours. As both mentors and students, masters and apprentices, we should express a solidarity in the foundation of teaching those who want to learn while learning from the very same. Which is what this letter is about.

This is the call to arms to any who would hear it, any who so wishes to see a place of many roleplays of any variety with people getting along and helping each other build and expand, create, new ideas! This is not revolutionary by any means, but by providing an friendly environment for the lost masses, we can achieve a community that borders, no, revels, in greatness.

Will you join me?



With Due Respect,
Jikial and Admiral Frog

P.S. I apologise.

For the record, I didn't send this over the mule because somehow the mule isn't able to run anything anymore despite being the owner/captain.

Which is a shame. I don't know how this happened, might need to ask a GAIA MOD about it, so the mule can get back up and running.

I, too, have just resurfaced. Was never popular here, but I'm very interested! No suggestions, though. Sounds like you have a handle on things. xd

I only joined during the fall of the guild although I see the guild has high potential. I wish to see this guild rise once again and I am willing to do anything to help in any way.

I've been on and off for awhile, and really miss some of the really good RPs I found when I first joined.

I do have a suggestion though: I happened to see a handful of RPs that are very similar in vein to each other. Not that it's a bad thing, but why don't we try to branch out from our comfort zones?

We tend to stay to the 'safer' stories, the more common genres. But there is so much out there to work with.

I would love to see more diversity in RPs in this group.

I'll admit, I haven't been very active in the guild. I mostly stuck with the tutoring thread, to try and find a tutor, and was disappointed that most of the tutoring threads seemed so out of date that I didn't bother to respond, or that I didn't receive an answer when I tried.

I am interested, though, to help this guild live up to its full potential.

For me, over the past couple of months have been eventful, yet I still do my best to try and post in Roleplays that I have, and in the process of fixing up an old idea. But I would love to, and hope, to have this guild revived.

This guild helped me so much when I was wanting to become a good roleplayer. I might not be there just like that, but I have gotten so much better because of some of the help I have gotten from this amazing guild.

So yes, I would like to help out in any way to get this guild back into working order.

Inexperienced and disorganized as I am, I'm more than happy to lend a hand somehow.