Forums » Looking for RP » The Valley of Aram | Setting Open to New (closed)

Jutting out of the steamy jungles of the Mhatubas, a city teeming with trade sits not far from the coast. Aram, a city-state ruled by wealth, favour, and the occasional noble, is rife with danger, excitement, and magic beyond the imagination.




While Aram is in an entirely different universe from our own, the 1600's can be likened to the closest similar time period; North-western India and Pakistan would be the closest likeness, geographically. Hand cannons are starting to see wide use, but overall this is your average low-tech setting. We consider ourselves to be a medium-fantasy, high magic setting: while there are many fantastic species and races to be found, you simply will not see dragons swooping willy-nilly out of the sky (in fact, some might say they're purely legend); magic is in every living thing, but the ability to harness or direct it is not.

While Aram has quite a few of its own custom races and species (and will continue to gain more as we work them out! Suggestions are always welcome, of course), we welcome characters of outside origins. Aram, being a well-positioned city along the main trade route on the continent, sees people of many walks of life, and of an incredible variety of origin.

Our community works hard to be a safe-space for roleplayers of marginalized backgrounds! So on top of a great place to RP, this is also a friendly place to socialize!

If you would like to become part of a community of quality story-telling and interaction, we'd be pleased to have you!

Apply here!

Ah, but alas, those under 18 cannot join. Are you sure you have this in the right forum?

Yes, I am certain. You have to opt-in to see the over 18 forum which, as you can guess, may cause problems with getting a wider audience, even of people within the age-range.

This is indeed fine where it is.

Let's bump this back up! We've gotten quite a few great applicants, and I can't wait to see who else might come by!

Bump!

Up up up!

Ohey

Up up up

Oop long time no bump

Always nice to see fantasy that takes different approaches and aesthetics.

This seems like a really gorgeous setting, but I notice that most of the threads haven't been posted in for several months. Is the community still active much?

I'm glad you enjoy the setting (And thankyou ahh)!

And yes, it is. If you check the 'archive' section, you'll see more recent stuff. Most of our players prefer to RP on Skype and other messengers, and post logs after. (I also have a few logs kicking around I need to post...) Completed/resolved forum RP threads also get moved there.

More players would definitely help, though. I'd like to see more forum RP going on, but that doesn't seem to be the biggest cup of tea around, if that makes sense!

Of course there's a few threads that got dropped/the players forgot about/etc. But that's pretty normal in RP communities.

Well, that's good to hear.

I wasn't much of a forum-fan until my schedule got fuller. All of a sudden, the slower pace of thread posting became very comforting.

I'll look into putting together a character/application. It seems full of potential!

Yes, forum is REALLY helpful for that. It also helps some players who are kinda anxiety/rushed feeling on real-time messengers!

AAH I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE!