Okay so while I am starting a medieval fantasy site, it's probably not going to be open until next year; I'm willing to offer you the discord for that, but I figure I'd pitch the site that's established and won't be going away any time soon.

Ramora Weyr is advertised as a real life site, but we've recently started accepting animanga FCs with the rules being that if your FC has natural hair/eye colors, or you're willing to edit them for that, and the appearance is otherwise not too outlandish for a human-only low-tech setting, you can use an animanga FC. Because we only recently started accepting animanga FCs, we have a lot open. You can find our taken FCs here; we only have a few reserved Genshin FCs, one mzdz FC taken, and none of your other series have any taken.

Ramora is a dragon riders of Pern RPG that requires no fandom knowledge to play in. Pern is a blend between science fiction and medieval fantasy-- while it is scifi space shenanigans, we actually don't do any space travel in our setting and we're very grounded on the planet that was originally colonized (heck, no one ICly knows that humans aren't native to Pern, nor do they know about the history of humanity before the colony was settled). So it plays a lot more like a low fantasy medieval site than a scifi site, with the only remnants of the scifi setting being some slightly more advanced medical techniques and the dragons themselves. There's no magic, but there are psychic dragons in our setting and you can collect them for free serotonin.

The big draw of Pern, of course, is making characters so the admin can match them with custom dragons. We take it to an extreme on Ramora, and we allow a fair amount of member input. We like to make dragons that you as a player would like to play, and if something doesn't work for you, you can tell us at any time.

We are a bigger community (about 35-ish people), but if you ask for threads or connections you will be able to find them. I like to believe we're welcoming, at least. We're also not a very demanding community, so if you come and go, that's also fine by our standards. We're also not judgmental about short posts. We're more than willing to help you get acquainted with the lore, and we'll even direct you to character connections if you're looking for those early on (people might go a little feral, though, you have been warned.)

Here's our site if you wanna check us out.

(If you like canons, we also allow "adaptations" and "inspired by" characters. We have a Raistlin inspired dragon and a Cole Cassidy expy iirc, as well as a few others lying around that I might not remember. So long as your character fits the setting, we don't mind.)

still around, still kicking. almost two years now.

My favorite thing about staffing is how much my members appreciate me, and how much they appreciate each other and the site they're on.

My least favorite thing is updating lists, honestly.

To be honest I encourage members to handle disputes on their own and to tell me if the other party is 1) continuing to ignore boundaries or 2) suicide baiting in response to being asked to stop doing something.

I've had issues with both on my site, and that's about when I step in and go "yeah we're weeding."

after reading a few articles that showed up on my home page, i can safely say writers don't care about kidney donations.

that's at least good to know. i made this new account just to duo with a friend in our off-roles and at least it's good to know that at least new players get something. i'm not super phased by it (as u can tell from my name, i play jungle; i'm used to it) but i'd worry that someone playing this game would get this treatment lol.

man you know

I've been playing league for so long that the insane people are not at my MMR usually. so i decided to level a new account and i found them.

they're just actual animals and I cannot respect any of them. i can see why we aren't getting a lot of new players. new players have to play with these freaks.

watching casual geographic is teaching me that nature has no respect.

to be honest I'm really glad the influx of new members is always slow on Ramora.

we get a new one every few months and it gives me time to integrate them and get used to them before another one comes in, so I have them memorized and recognized and I'm never like "who is this person" on my own site. considering for our genre we are massive that really helps. I feel if we were an 80 person site I would die.

Got the kids reserved, I'm changing up the FC for Indira but I'm still open to suggestion c:.

this is gonna sound cruel but nah i don't care about members i don't have.

if my site doesn't work for people who are not on my site, i'm not changing it to attract people that don't RP with me yet. if it works for my members, I'm keeping the site the way it is.

besides with members you don't have, there's no guarantee that changing your site is gonna make those possible members join? what's the saying? "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" and that's honestly my policy when it comes to staffing. my members, for instance, think my character slot system is forgiving and encourages them to use the OCs they already have rather than just make 10 OCs out the gate. it's how they self-regulate, and they say they have no real problems getting characters in play because i make want ads free to create. i'm not going to get rid of it so someone who doesn't like character slots could *maybe* join.

I think also as we get older, fewer and fewer people are going "I'm going to make my own site!" and are looking more for sites where they can stay for longer than two weeks. So we get fewer forums, yes, but those forums have more long-term members than when we were teenagers and making new sites every other week.