Just to clarify something that's been brought up here (IB already posted my opinion, I think), the Topaz Text RPG was barely alive when PokeRealm went down. For two months or so before it went down, Wanderer Shawn and I were almost the only ones updating, with other mods chipping in now and again. I think that there may have been moderator applications before the forum went down, but the mods from the new batch weren't really providing much of a boost.

But yeah, IB basically summed up my thoughts. Personally, I feel that a Text RPG would very much distract from the main focus of this board – to make the Topaz game. If you recall, before PokeRealm went down, Topaz was one of the most inactive forums on the board. Additionally, as an RPG moderator, I always felt as though the TRPG was sort of a separate community. The members of the TRPG, for the large part, didn't have much interaction with the regular members, and the RPG always seemed to get the shaft when it came to adding new features and whatnot.

And finally, one of our big things with OI is 'you're playing this thing here, and there's nowhere else that anybody can play the same thing'. Including Caldera/Kirant when there's already a Topaz RPG is sort of like us including some of those Fakemon that every single TRPG on the web uses. I don't mean it as an insult to you guys or anything; if you want to put your RPG on OI, we'll be glad to have you. But if you want it here, then it'll have to be only here.

I don't really come here all that often, so perhaps my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt. But yeah. That's my two cents. Make of it what you will.