Dear All,

With traffic to the site being pretty minimal these days, and my own involvement in roleplaying limited to very occasional one-shots with old friends, I can no longer really justify the ongoing costs of maintaining GameCircle (or the time and effort to migrate to a more efficient hosting plan).

Although traffic to the forum is almost non-existent, there is still the occasional campaign being posted to the wiki. Plus, there is some fantastic material from previous campaigns that is probably worth keeping. So I will keep this notice posted on the front page for a month, to allow anyone to download any content they wish to keep.

If anyone is interested in taking ownership of the site, let me know. It is reasonably easy to make a backup before taking the site down.

Cheers,
Nick

"What’s this “game circle” business about then, eh? What do you, reader and presumably gamer, get out of it?

A game circle takes what you already have - a network of gamers known not just (or even necessarily) to you, but your immediate crew - and adds some more regular contact and a little organisation. The intent behind this is threefold:

* To give roleplaying hobbyists the opportunity to get to know and game with more than a single group’s worth of fellow hobbyists at once.
* To encourage campaign play that takes the vagaries of real life and real people into account.
* To make an interesting campaign idea the first step in making a campaign and making a group the second step."