Ye Olde Gaming Companye Forum

This next forum Ye Olde Gaming Companye aka YOGC Community Forum is another odd duck. What I mean by that is that they are another one of the mixed message forums. A basic theme for forums is to recruit new members, but a lot of forum are antagonistic to new members in one or more ways. Some forums are very anti-lurker, they think if you join you must also be an active poster, when most people join a forum just to read the posts and make sure they have access to everything and a few might make a post once in a blue moon (mostly what I do most places) and then a very few are high volume posters. 

So this forum has a Hello Thread (IMPORTANT: After you register, post a quick 'Hello' here. Otherwise, it is likely you will be deleted as spam. Definitely the kind of thing that sets your teeth on edge right off the bat. You delete account that are spam or trolls, you don't delete accounts for lurking. That just sends the wrong message.

This forum was founded in January of 2008 and they have 179 members, 585 threads and 6216 posts. In the past 48 days they have added 1 member, 1 thread and 16 posts. The site is dark and uninviting in appearance and is in need of a facelift. This site was created to support a game called the Wayfarer RPG, it is available at Ye-Olde-Gaming-Companye at RPGNow. Change the name to The Wayfarer instead of Wayfarer and you go from a good name to a great name. The game says it is a mix of old and new school elements with an old school feel. Their licensing terms and derivative works terms appear very reasonable. 

So as bad as it looks this is not IMO a lost cause, a facelift for the website, more friendliness towards lurkers, make the pdfs free and the POD copies full price and then focus on a mix of free and for sale support products, would be a good start. Then get active blogging about the game spend some time creating new threads and with a core of people to do a little pushing this could be revived IMO.

This all assumes that the game is a good one, you'll have to decide that for yourself. I had not heard of the game or the forum until I started doing this little project. I hope they do a reboot of their whole thing and breath new life into their forum and their game.