Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25159376-20140211202106/@comment-25345260-20140213033844

Infada wrote: I can't agree. The themeplayers are doing something completely separate, and completely different. They follow a theme in playing RuneScape as a game, rather than devoting themselves to the construction and interaction of complex characters. Let them go off to their own wiki, and let us maintain what we're building here. We've done so much as a community, and there's no need to jeopardise that.

Let's be realistic, we can do without intermingling of different game types. I loathe to be divisive, but at the end of the day, whilst we can be civil, I think it's best for us to keep to our own and let each other build up their own apparatus so that confusion needn't set in. In a game obsessed with In-Game Statistics, it would be very difficult to feasibly recruit to a Textplaying Group without Themeplayers and Descriptive Gameplayers around as middle-ground.

A few years ago, as Sand pointed out once, almost all clans were themeplay on Runescape. With Roleplay not being a big leap, we had a LOT of people in the community. As Themeplay clans died down, isn't it curious we have more "42 is dying" threads?

Angry, bitter divisions just lead to more issues. If we can agree entirely on what makes them similar and different, we can divide the different forms into ways that suit everyone to share the wiki. Heck, I'd do Descriptive Gameplay. I need to get back into skilling again.