...sorry to kill whatever confrontational mood you guys are fostering, but...
Am I the only one who saw this and suddenly envisioned Findelfin in the Matrix? With the Neo coat and sunglasses and everything? D:
That said, one of my only qualms about the site in any way, shape or form, is the abundance of firearm-wielding characters when that's supposed to be a bit of a no-no. Likewise with the slew of We Fell In From Another World But We're Fine Now types. Considering my own walking cliche piles though, it's hardly a serious complaint.
As a player though, I'd like to see some more background on the resident mythologies. Not the War of the Tap or the last round of XEM'ZUND EATS YOUR BABIES! per se, but the gods and the planes and all that. Out of idle curiosity, has anyone ever actually played a quest to Icehenge? What about direct (or even indirect) involvement from the resident pantheon?
Besides that, a new player etiquette guide would be nice. Not some big honking in-depth thing of doom, just a short list of some sort. I say this mostly because I've had two instances of submitting threads for judgement only to have a lack of communication with my fellow players; in the one, Seth Rahl didn't contact me to say he'd submitted a thread for judgement, and in another I did the same thing to Call me J because I thought a thread was over and didn't think to contact him. Maybe just a reminder to stay in touch with your fellow RPers or something. It's second nature to most of you, I'm sure, but not all of us have been here two or three years >_>;
Another new player thing, and this is probably going to sound more like me just griping and whining so feel free to skip the next two paragraphs, is that I'd like to see a little more responsibility spread out for The Fate of The World.
Judging solely off what I've read (which isn't a whole flippin' lot in the way of RPs, just guides and the like), a lot of the time the whole world hinges on a small group of about four to ten people. I mainly cite the Coronian Civil War when I say this, chiefly because you had Letho, Izvilvin and Bredith basically deciding the course of an entire country with little to no outside involvement -- and when one or two people asked to join, they got laughed at.
I can understand trying to keep a story streamlined and the hassles of coordinating a metaplot -- and for what it's worth, it was a good piece of work. But something about that just rubbed me the wrong way and I've been itching to say as much for a while now.