Hey everyone.
As many of you know, I've supported the addition of a freeform roleplay area to Althanas (which I've dubbed the Interactive World or IW) for several years. To date, my previous attempts at bringing such an area to life, primarily Athylia's Verse and The Nexus have failed primarily due to lack of interest. I also note that both areas, though derived from the idea of freeform RP, were not exactly freeform either, as both had registration requirements.
So, the idea has been passed around again, but this time it has far more staff support than it's ever had before. However, based on my previous failures, before starting it I wanted to know whether the majority of you would use it. There are several integration ideas floating around, but my favorite making it an extension of Nexus. We will bring the forum back to the forefront as it's own category (Freeform RP). Registration would not be required, though I'll leave the Codex subforum active for people to post the characters they are using. Threads completed there will earn GP (since GP is freely transferable across characters), but not EXP because EXP is the World of Althanas staple. Completed threads there can be submitted for judgment like normal threads for AP like normal or simply submitted as a no judgment for GP rewards.
That said, are you interested? Do you have any suggestions? I don't want this to be a major resource sucking area/event. It will be a more casual post between post type area where you can RP Harry Potter, Star Wars, Earth, DnD, LoTR, etc. and grind for GP so you can buy sick Althanas stuff, so keep that in mind when coming up with ideas.