This may seem off-topic, but it may lead to a lot of new game submissions to the phoenyx. Here's why; As some of you might know, I started off my on-line GMing career on Compuserve's RPGAMES forum, using the forum message boards. I have always found this forum to be an excellent communtity of GMs and players, and a lot of very high quality games have run there. A month ago, there was a major forum restructuring, and RPGAMES was replaced by a new forum called ADULTRPG. The reason we were given at the time was that, since most of Compuserve's forums were being opened to the web, the only way we could preserve a member-only forum was to move it into the 'Adult' section. Many people voiced concern at this at the time, but we were assured that the place would not be allowed to degenerate into an 'adult chatroom', and would be much as it had before (except for the absence of any under-18s) Now it appears that we've been at best misled, at worse lied to. The forum web-view front page ( http://go.compuserve.com/adultrpg ,although I *think* non-CSI customers cannot reach this page) is heavily promoting those threads with explicit sexual content. We've started to get off-topic sleazy 'Adult Personal Ads' posted into game threads by the types attracted by these. Forum management are brushing off complaints with platitudes, and removing all criticism of the direction things are going from the message boards. The result of this is there will be a lot of high-quality games looking for new homes. Unless Karen and Carl raise any objections I indent to recommend the Phoenyx to any GMs who's games come up to the Phoenyx's standards. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
