The Forum

 Register an account and join us on the forum! Here, you can join RPs, show off your fictions and artwork, and just hang out with the everybody.

The Community

 Here we have contributions made by our members. Product reviews, artwork that doesn't make it to the Hall of Fame, articles... it's all here for your perusal.

The Hall of Fame

 Keep hearing about that RP or fiction that was finished before you found us? Never fear! All completed RPs and fictions are catalogued here!

The RP Archive

 Interested in reading the RPs that were, sadly, left unfinished? Looking for inspiration, or information? Look no further! All unfinished RPs are kept here.

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The Community: History

    We've had a very long and rather strange history. Before we became a site, we were a forum. Before we were a forum, we were a board that was part of a forum that was part of a site that had nothing to do with writing. Very humble beginnings, no? Read about the history of our community here!

    Click on the links below to go to the page you want.

The VGMusic Era, June 2002 - May 2005

    The passage of years always comes at a price. You get older, your memories become less clear, good friends part ways... Sadly, we cannot put an exact date on the birth of the Role-Playing and Fiction Board.

    What we do know is this. On March 16, 1998, Mike Newman, the founder of the Video Game Music Archive, announced the creation of the new message boards. This event, which occurred shortly after the site had changed web hosts, is the earliest evidence we have of VGMusic (as the site is commonly called) having a forum. It can be assumed that there was an Role-Playing and Fiction Board, though this cannot be verified.

    The next four years are a similar story. Though VGMusic changed servers again and again, and the forum is mentioned from time to time, there is no reference to an RP Board in their News Archive. Our earliest verification of the RP Board's existence comes from Elec, who joined on June 15, 2002.

    For the next three years, people came and went, but the Role-Playing and Fiction Board slowly formed a steadfast community of its own.

    In October 2004, Ricky and NaokoYiran (who now goes by the username Nerikuro Shino) teamed up to create the VGMusic RP Archives page, located on Geocities. Ricky would copy the RPs, and send them to NaokoYiran, who would upload them to the page. Prior to this, copies of RPs were few and far between- only a few people (Horn, Mavrickindigo, and GeminiSaint, primarily) would copy the RPs they were involved in. As a result, there are very few existing copies of RPs that occurred before October 2004. Though the Archive page fell into oblivion due to a severe lack of updates about a year later, Ricky continued saving the RPs to his hard drive.

    In March 2005, MatthiasKinnearLawrence (who now goes by the shortened name Matthias) started the first installment of the RP Awards.

    In May 2005, ForteBlast, one of VGMusic's administrators and the moderator of the Role-Playing and Fiction Board, decided that the community the board had turned into should be on its own forum, instead of being a parasite of sorts to the VGMusic forum, and so he created a new forum for us on May 10, 2005. The RP Board was locked on May 25, and all posts were deleted on June 01. A link remained until mid-July, when the entire forum was deleted during a server move.

The VGRP Era, May 2005 - April 2006

    The new forum was named the Video Game Role-Playing Central forum, and it was located on the MyFreeBB server. Though it was a definite downgrade- there were no attachments, the server wasn't very stable, and we were all but invisible to the rest of the Internet- we made the most of it, and continued on writing RPs. Fictions got more attention with the creation of a separate Fiction board, and backstage discussions became more common thanks to the Discussion board. GeminiSaint was voted as administrator, while Ricky and Thalzon were elected for moderators.

    In August, Ricky started the Hall of Fame; VGRP Quest and Geowalkers became the first RPs to be inducted. Matthias held the second RP Awards.

    Towards the end of August, as we drew further apart from VGMusic, we created our own General Message and Art Boards, as well as an all-new Video Game Reviews Board. Elec and Matthias were brought on staff as moderators of the new boards.

    In March 2006, MyFreeBB began to suffer serious performance issues, and, after a ten days of downtime, we decided it was time to move.

The RP Haven Era, April 2006 - present

    CtrlAltDestroy purchased web space from Bluehost, and, under the new name of RP Haven, we put launched the new forum on March 31, 2006. The staff was updated somewhat- CtrlAltDestroy became webmaster, Ricky and Thalzon became administrators, and Elec and Matthias became moderators of all the boards. CtrlAltDestroy began studying books on how to put a working site together, while Ricky started putting the new Hall of Fame together. In September, Ricky finished getting the Hall of Fame up to date, and took over working on the site; the main site went live on October 01, 2006.