Game masters are not around to control how people roleplay. They are given the ability to create roleplay and keep the boards active. Shinobilegends may be a gaming site, but given the fact that roleplay has been so largely integrated, it is now important as well. Take a look at all of the editing that is being done in the test servers (i.e. New Villages). This for RP. You may hear the mods say that SL is not a RP site, but they are not telling you that they do not care. They are telling you that they are not responsible for what happens in RP. The role players are the ones who manage RP and the mods, aside from actual gaming needs, are only meant to keep it clean and safe for an audience of all ages. This is where game masters come in. They are role players. Even with only the ability to post without their name tag, they are able to take roleplay to a new level.
There is a lot of talk here about who can be a game master and who cannot. I do not think that we should look at this ‘who’ the way we are now. The way it has been presented, you seem to think that you can use labels such as ‘kage and veterans. Though many of you may know each other rather well, do you expect to judge others who might want this position? People can roleplay a certain way and be completely different in person. Kayenta makes a good game master because she is not biased. She may have been a ‘kage, but she also has a general love for roleplay. There are a number of people who are very “one way”, choosing to remain painfully loyal to a single person, clan, or nation. We cannot let these people make us distrustful of everybody we roleplay with. Even these people might be completely different in reality.
Characters such as demons and other more fantastical creatures may not meld with everybody’s idea of roleplay, but they are committing no wrong. Those of you who complain about them are missing one very large point. It is you who chooses to roleplay with them. It is not their “powers” which are wrong. Many of these characters would not be familiar to the majority of you. They do not care about being destructive or overbearing with their chosen method of roleplay. Those that are a nuisance are at just as much fault as a canon character who is the same way. We cannot prohibit them from roleplaying simply because we do not agree with their fantasy. This is all fantasy.
As any of you who are involved with the bijuu will know, there is only one deciding factor in what you can and can not do during a battle. Does your opponent agree with you doing it? If they do, they have to handle it. If, at the beginning of a battle, I agree to let my opponent to use a kekkei genkai they do not posses, I cannot complain about it later on and petition that they cannot use it because they have not reset with it. There is a certain level of organization that must be upheld during a fight. If you have a problem with what you opponent did you must state it at that time, not after you lose. Zenaku and Raifudo have been very honorable in mediating over the years. They proved this not too long ago when Bocchiere lost the Rokubi. Game masters are given their abilities because of traits like these. You cannot label some enigmatic stranger a game master and expect their word to be respected. You label people who are known as game masters because they are respected. This is why some of you think the ‘kage would make good game masters. Has Kayenta not proven that even a ‘kage can be trusted?
Do we need people to be better role players and “fix themselves”? Certainly. The true question lies in how we expect them to do this.. The only way that game masters could help with this is by providing something to keep people busy with. It is refreshing to have to work against something that is not another character with a set attitude and a set collection of abilities. We often forget about the trials of man vs. nature. Suna tries to keep them alive, but they are usually overlooked.
As I end my response to this topic, I would like to make note of something. Though they have now made themselves hated by almost everybody, Kumogakure is to be respected. I have never seen a group of people roleplay together better in all of my years as a member of this community. They maintain a strict RP setting and are still some of the friendliest, most interesting people OOC.
