{"id":71,"date":"2013-05-28T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realmsofdespair.info\/blogs\/tharius\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-05-28T21:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:53:33","slug":"state-of-the-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/state-of-the-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been trying to get to know the active members of the role play community on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realmsofdespair.org\">Realms<\/a>, exploring the half-elf nation and learning some of the history from forums that cover a great span of time.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I didn&#8217;t need to, I could have just jumped right in, but I thought that it might be a little more respectful of the community to take a little time to learn. \u00a0Some of the things I&#8217;ve learned include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">There are a lot of interested people, not all want to lead, everyone has their own level of involvement and free time<\/span><\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no secrecy on hometown boards and I suppose there doesn&#8217;t need to be, but I will need to try to be careful to keep what I know and what Tharius knows separate<\/li>\n<li>There are huge differences in how people RP on Realms &#8230; no way is best as long as it&#8217;s respectful of others<\/li>\n<li>To paraphrase Ghandi: Be the change you want to see\u00a0in the game. \u00a0If you want activity, generate it. \u00a0Nothing will draw others to you like activity and success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I won&#8217;t bore the people that are successful rp&#8217;ers&#8230; For those of you thinking of trying it out, start a lowbie and join in. \u00a0If you&#8217;re not a PK RP person then level doesn&#8217;t matter and you can save your main for when you really want to get your feet wet! \u00a0The two main Nations boards are NE;NE;N (current stuff) and NE;NE;N;N (histories) of Darkhaven Square. \u00a0Your own hometown will also have a board in it that will help get you up to speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been trying to get to know the active members of the role play community on Realms, exploring the half-elf nation and learning some of&#8230; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/state-of-the-nations\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roleplay","tag-ooc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Tri1-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}