The Padded Room Party!

The Padded Room Party! (created by Mike aka Char!) was one of the largest and arguably spammiest ‘role playing’ threads to ever exist. The PRP was typical of most OtakuBoards Version 3 role playing threads; if featured little to no premise, barely any character development and chaotic action-oriented posts with a weak (or nonexistent) overlaying narrative. The posts contained numerous references to what was popular at the time- Dragon Ball Z, typical fantasy stereotypes and numerous other animes. It lacked substance, quality, narrative and most everything many OtakuBoards Version 7 members associate with their role playing era.

An enormous number of posts were put into the thread (well into the hundreds, if not thousands) before it was closed by an unknwon moderator and eventually deleted entirely. Most of the people involved in the thread found the closure to be a bad decision. The decision to close the thread was part of a larger movement to improve quality within the Role Playing areas. These decisions lead to the increasing quality, depth and the evolution in general of RPGs on OB beyond the silly spamfests that reigned previously.

Some more details about the Padded Room Party:

• The thread’s exact title was Padded Room Party! with an exclamation point.
• The thread had just topped 2,000 posts when it was closed.
• Warlock and Final Flash are two more notable members who took part in the PRP.
• After the PRP’s closure a number of spin-off RPGs were created, all of which were closed as well.

Categories: Notable Threads, RPGs