Some of you may have noticed our recent downtime. The RPG Palace account was blocked by our hosting company due to CPU overuse. It turns out 98% of the traffic that generated that CPU spike came from one IP: 68.12.42.100. This resolves to a Cox address in Oklahoma. This IP address has been blocked. I apologize if that was any of you, but as far as I know we didn't have any Oklahomans here. Of course, if it was somebody here, we'd never know unless we went around and asked every individual person, "is RPG Palace back up for you?"

The migration to Drupal is finished! Two projects which have been hosted in private forums are now in Groups: Netplay+ and the former RPG Palace community game.

Any member with the rank of Socialite may create new group. Groups have useful features that work like a private forum that the group creator controls permissions for.

Other new features include user blogs (any member except traveling merchant may keep one) and the now-ubiquitous shoutbox.

I think I've got the system set up properly and I want volunteers to test the new site before I do the full migration. What will be entailed:

There is only one forum category, and you'll be having random conversations in it so as to test out your own permissions and site features. At any time you can make suggestions on how I can make it better.

One thing you cannot do is advertise the location of the test website. Since its location will only be privately disclosed, it will not be accessible by search engine or by spambots.

I've changed the category names, and in some cases their organization. They now fit a sort of metaphor of RPG Town as a walled city around a palace. The naming has also changed the purpose of a couple of categories, such as the Spam Bin, now the City Gates, and Concepts and Plots, now Game Maker's Guild.

It's been a long while since any updates, so let me clarify: RRR is not dead, but it has been so long since I removed the dead link that they don't have us anymore either.

What is the state of the RPG Making community? Is it up? Is it down? The main user base gets older and older, with some of us in our late twenties, and yet RPG Maker continues to attract the kind of youth that we were in its heyday. So where were you, nine years ago, with RPG Maker 2000? Even that was before my time.