If this is in the wrong place, lemme know.

I'm wondering if I'm the only person who does this, and if I should cop a beating for it being an awful idea.

I love RPing, but only got into it from watching others. I initially put an RPG area on a fan forum for Supernatural. Yup. I'm an Acklesfan. Anywhooo.
I only made the fanforum 'cause the one I was a member of got deleted through a prank.. the admin was 14, so yeah. haha. But I was all swooping in to save the day, and I have a fan forum with over 100 members now. I was so proud, and we had some great writers. With my staff, we made a decision to have an RPG area.

It got too small, as our player number increased. We moved it to its own board. Its got 10 members. o.O
So I'm wondering now, if its such a bad idea for it to only be Aussie players. We're gonna get more, I hope, from the old site, and from another I am a part of, but I'm honestly rethinking it now. Some recent trouble with one of the members, that I actually brought up on this board, most of the members I do have have disappeared.

I know that the site has potential. I know it. We have great characters, of those who haven't left.

I'm just concerned by the dividing by country thingo... Is that such a bad idea?

I know I told the members that it was still going to be THEIR RPG. That I wasn't going to make it a big one without them or anything. That they weren't being shut out in the cold. But but ..bah.

Is it wrong to do this?? I've almost forgotten why its being done in the first place.

Also.. does anyone else do this???

Depends.

All Aussie in real life players? Definitely a bad idea. You're just preemptively cutting down your member base.

All characters must be Australian? No so much. But you might have to provide some information, because you'd be amazed how many foreigners think we all live in rural towns.

There's a pretty good percentage of Harry Potter boards where your character has to have been a UK resident for them to go to Hogwarts, after all. And people enjoy looking up info about where their character comes from and suchlike.

i agree with vanity. if you limit your members to just being from the country in real life, that's a big no no. if i did that, i'd lose a couple of members that i love playing with and talking to on my boards since they're not currently living in the US. not to mention... the show is filmed in the US with american actors so that would be a little bit of a rude turn off.

if the board is set in Oz and you wanted your characters to all be from there, that's different. you should probably allow a foreigner or two because you come across them wherever you are but i agree. in anything you do where you're limiting things, if you want it to be realistic, you have to include information on everything or at least provide links to where they can read up on it.

lol do people really think that everyone from australia lives in rural towns? that's like saying all americans have a southern accent and walk around like cowboys XD silly, isn't it? but, that's the great thing about boards, you can enlighten the masses.

Yeah, I thought so.

Hmm. Thanks for that, guys.

And yeah, btw - Australians don't have koalas (NOT KOALA BEARS - they are NOT bears!) as pets.
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Just a little enlightenment for the masses.

Oh, phooey. Do they at least shoot lasers?

Oh, yeah, that they totally do.

I won't lie, Kangaroos are vicious. No joke. They kill. *shudders*