EuRoSoc

When Wizards of the Coast started Gleemax I was hoping for something just like Facebook but for gamers. I don’t think I have to tell what a major disappointment this site was. So when I lost hope, I thought about starting my own network. Hehe, it was a really megalomaniac idea and in the end I setup the “European Roleplayers Society” as a network on Ning.com. Ning is a free service that allows you to create your own social networks and from what I’ve seen so far it works pretty well. In order to get my network started I invited all my gaming friends, my WoW guild, wrote some blog entries, created several groups, uploaded some music and videos. But from all the people invited only a few registered and even less became active.
I now try to reinvigorate EuRoSoc by asking my fellow RPG bloggers for help. If you think that something like that could be a fun idea or just an interesting experiment, sign up and perhaps even join the groups, discussions et cetera. And if you like what you see, ask your friends to join. And don’t feel left out when you are not from Europe. I called it European Roleplayers Society because I thought it would be easier to attract people from the same continent as I live in. But if you hail from any other place, feel free to join us.

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Dave T. Game

Hmm, interesting idea, I'm on other Nings but didn't think about one for gamers. What would you think about an official RPG Bloggers Ning?

I'll try to keep up with the comment thread here, but also feel free to shoot me an email.

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Stargazer

An official RPG Bloggers could be a fun thing. When I am not mistaken you were one of the people behind the network, so why not create a rpgbloggers.ning.com site and invite all the members of the network?

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Dave T. Game

That's what I was thinking too, but I didn't want to step on your idea 🙂 Also have to talk it over with the other guys behind the network and see what they think.

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Stargazer

I really like the idea, but perhaps before choosing Ning we should check out the other social network services that are out there. Possible alternatives are mixxt.com and sixgroups.com. Mixxt for example features wikis for each network, something like that could come in handy.

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The Chatty DM

I too am interested… We could definitively piggy back on an existing Social Network infrastructure while we ponder building our own.