Ecco the Dolphin

I don't want to set any specific expectations bc this is 100% a casual project for me, but at this point it probably won't be until after August. Even if I get everything done and polished, I'm going on an international road trip at the end of August and I'll want to postpone opening until after I've gotten through the stress of that! Aiming for early/mid September, but the end of this month and August are going to be pretty busy for me. So, we'll see.



The skin is specifically being designed so that the only image required will be a 100x100 icon for ease of accessibility to people who may not have a lot of graphical skills!

Not until much closer to launch! I want to have almost everything in order before I start worrying about a discord, just because moderating one will distract from development.



Slots are something I was considering! If the site does get big, it's not something that I'm opposed to doing, but it's much easier to add slots than take them away. We'll see what happens and what kind of turn out there is, but I would also like to encourage making less popular pokemon tbh.

As a more general update, I've done some more work on the skin! Here's a preview of the post row (mini-profile subject to change as I finalize what links/info should go in them).

As a both a Spider-Man and a panfandom fan, I'm definitely interested!

Thanks for the interest everyone! The heat's been dragging me down so there hasn't been much work on this, but I will be slowly but surely working on it thanks to all of the interest.

Thank you for your reply, it reminded me of a few features I forgot to mention in my first post!

Definitely understand the knee-jerk initial reaction to "pokemon as faceclaims", but the more I think about it the more I think I'm sold on it, because at this point we have over a thousand pokemon. Even if someone gobbles up Pikachu right out the gate, theres going to be something for someone.

Ongoing Story: New islands will appear over the course of the roleplay! Each one with their own mini-plot/boss.

Lighthearted Events: Big fan of these, too!

No Gifted Canons: All important roles like the main guild master of the Explorer's guild will be NPCs. The only role available to players will be explorers & leaders of their own custom teams. Though, I wonder if people would be interested in bandit or civilian roles, too.

System-Lite: This is the big one I forgot to mention! It will be a stat-less roleplay. Missions will be story-based with objectives that need to be met during the the thread (eg. travel 3 floors with 2 posts minimum per floor and encounter a pidgey). There will probably be a word minimum, but no battle mechanics. It'll probably be more like earning x amount of levels per mission or using site currency to buy levels.

And thank you for the compliment!

I empathize with how hard being staff on a site can be, but I have to agree with 11's sentiment that it's not an issue of title. At the end of the day, regardless of what you call it, the people in charge of a site are in charge of the site whether you call them staff, admins, moderators, dungeon masters, architects, etc.

When you create a group, you take on the responsibilities that entails which, in the case of a roleplay, are to help the members you've invited into your group. This includes answering questions, settling disputes, and making sure the group functions as intended. This is true for any group whether it be a TTRPG with you and four friends or a roleplay forum with 100+ members.

It can be rough, and thankless, and some people do expect way too much of administrators, but an important part of running any group is setting boundaries. If you feel like you've become a 24/7 help desk, set clear expectations on when members can expect help from you. Pick a day of the week, or a time frame like 48 hours. Alternatively, it might be easier to invite others to help moderate to lessen that load a bit so the responsibility isn't all on you.

Worst case scenario, like you said, members are not entitled to a place on your site. Kick 'em out if they aren't respecting boundaries or are entitled.

I started working on a skin just for fun and to shake the dust off my coding skills, but now I'm seriously considering making a PMD rp forum, so I wanted to gauge interest.

Premise: The pokemon of Prism Island lived easy lives until a year ago when another island mysteriously appeared nearby. The island was full of aggressive pokemon and constantly changing "dungeons". The Explorer's Guild formed to organize search parties to explore the island and discover it's origin.

Key Features

- Humans turned pokemon. I really enjoy this aspect of the games, so the opening event will likely be something about amnesiac pokemon who claim they're humans starting to appear ala the games.

- Six character limit, with each player only being allowed one human turned pokemon just to keep them rare.

- Pokemon will be treated like face claims. Unless this is particularly controversial, players will claim final evolutions as their "face claim" with regional forms counting as separate final forms. For example, there can only be one espeon, one dragonite, one Hoennian Linoone, one Galarian Obstagoon.

- Player characters will start out as the unevolved form of a pokemon. With the above rule in effect, this could mean that there could be 8 eevees running around, but there will not be more than one espeon, umbreon, vaporeon, etc.

What I'm most interested in with this interest check is how many people are interested, but also what people are looking for the most from a PMD rp. Would you want to be able to collect "NPC" pokemon to add to the team, like in the games, or just keep it to PC formed teams? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the above mentioned features?

Edit: Forgot to include a preview of the WIP skin.

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Thanks for the recs, I'll check them out!

Kuroya - ngl the soulmate stuff always made me hesitate to check out lovelorn, but i'll give the info a look now that i understand the concept better.

Jungler - Same sort of deal where I've seen GW around, but the dragon stuff is a bit overwhelming so I never looked into it further. I'll still give the info a glance, tho

i always feel a little bad when i choose an inefficient or clunky way to do HTML that I know I can do in a more efficient way, but... i am lazy and no one's going to be looking at my code. if it works, it works

What it says on the tin. I'm looking for a panfandom rp. The muses I want to play most are Knives Millions from Trigun, Chidori from Reject Ranger/Loser Ranger, and Alma Karma from D.Gray-Man. Not a deal breaker, but I'd also like to play Sephiroth from FF7. I would prefer a site that doesn't require a lot of images, because chidori has next to no content easily available other than the manga.