RPoL

RPoL stands for RolePlay onLine.  It is a message board-based site for role-playing games.

RPoL was specifically designed for the purpose of playing role-playing games (RPGs) in a play-by-post format, and has many features designed with RPGs and their players in mind.

Several years ago, RPoL's creator, jase, played RPGs on a Bulletin Board System (a BBS).  When that BBS closed, his group needed somewhere else to play and after looking at the available options, jase decided he could do better.

So he did, and thus RPoL was born.

RPoL has a great list of features available to users:

• Private Messaging: Users can speak to one another directly in PMs within games.
  
• Private Lines: Players and Game Masters can pass private notes to one another inside public messages.
  
• rMail: Use on-site mail to contact other users and site administration.
  
• No Spam: No other users can ever see your email address -- it's used for site administration purposes only.
  
• Portraits: Each character in a game can have a portrait assigned for a little extra panache.
  
• Security: Users' passwords are encrypted so their cookies and Internet cache are more secure.
  
• Formatting: Text can be bolded, italicized, underlined, colored, and more, while multiple spaces in posts won't be truncated.
  
• Local Time: All dates are shown in the user's local time according to their computer's clock.
  
• Groups: Users can be split up into groups within a game and kept separate.
  
• Co-GMs: More than one person can Game Master a game.
  
• Game Information: There's a lot of information that can be set by the GM, such as the Game Introduction, game website links, and the game map.
  
• Scratch Pad: Each player in a game gets a little bit of private space to keep notes there -- and even the GM can't see it!
  
• Last Logins: Game Masters and players of a game can see the last logins of their fellow players.
  
• Themes: There is a variety of colour schemes for users to choose from so everyone can see RPoL in a theme they like.
  
• Active Development: jase is adding new things all the time!
  
• Free: RPoL is free to use!
  
• No Fosters: RPoL was developed in Australia and, although it is now hosted in the USA, it is still owned and admined by the Australian who developed it and contains no Fosters whatsoever.

jase.

jase is the Benevolent Dictator and President for Life of RPoL.  In his spare time he runs a consulting firm.

He also has the assistance of several Winged Monkeys who work as site moderators.  Currently, they are bigbadron, cruinne, elSpike, Ironsite, Jhael, Shannara, and Skald.

There are a few places users can look to find help with their RPoL problems:

1. Try taking a look through the FAQs (these things you're reading now!).
   
   
2. Try the Help link at the top right of any screen.  That link will pop up a window with instructions specifically for the screen you're currently on (yep, it's context sensitive!).
   
   
3. Try asking your question using the Beginners or the General Forum.  A lot of our users are really helpful and know the ropes very well.
   
   
4. Use rMail (the link at the upper right of the Main Menu) to contact the site moderators.  Be sure to give them a couple of days to respond -- all site moderators are volunteers doing this in their spare time.
   
   
5. Lastly, if all else fails and you have tried everything above, you can email the Administrator.  Give him several days to a couple of weeks to reply, as he's a very busy guy.
   

Sure, and there are a couple of images about half way down the Links page which are suggested.  And thanks!

While you're here, take a spin around the other FAQ files.  They're really very helpful!