After last week's removal of the Galactic Message Exchange, Erek, Banquo, and I assembled to develop a new roleplaying forum for SWC. The goal was to create a forum for players interested in more roleplaying opportunities that could serve as an intermediate step between the unmoderated freeform Meeting Hall and the highly structured long-term White Scenarios.

At the top of the RPG Centre, you will now find the new Scenario Hall. This is a forum in which anyone may create a new thread to run a scenario of their choosing.

Similar to the Meeting Hall, no particular structure is required. Players who wish to participate in freeform roleplay and chat in a cantina setting may do so, and players who would rather start a more structured scenario with a storyline and end goal may do so as well. You may create [Open] scenarios in which anyone can participate, or [Restricted] scenarios just for a group of friends or factionmates. The thread starter is entirely in charge of his thread and its direction.

Similar to White Scenarios, XP will be rewarded for participation, although this amount is capped at 500 XP per thread (averaging to no more than 20 XP per post, although posts will not be scored individually). XP will be awarded once the thread is requested closed by the thread starter when the scenario is concluded to his satisfaction, or once the thread reaches 30 days of inactivity. XP is only intended as a participation reward for roleplaying and contributing to SWC's IC environment, and attempts at using the forum to farm XP will be blocked.

Moderators will only interfere in instances of godmoding, rules violations and abuse, or if specific complaints are submitted, and will post an XP tally at the end of each thread. This largely hands-off approach will hopefully prevent the forum from accumulating an XP backlog as we have commonly seen with White Scenarios, and will give players the freedom to roleplay in the SWC universe as they wish.

A full set of rules (many of which will be familiar to players experienced with White Scenarios), a brief guide to scenario types and how to get started, and a sample scenario thread have been made available in the forum. Please read the sticky threads, and if any questions arise, feel free to ask any of the moderators or post in the OOC discussion sticky thread.

The Meeting Hall and the White Scenario board will continue to exist unaltered, for players who prefer completely unmoderated freeform RP or the greater commitment and XP rewards of WSs.