Antica Sezione Ruolisti (ASR)

ASR (in italian, Old RPG Group) is an italian speaking RP community based on the game Supremacy 1914, created by italian players Eowang and Knaimor. The ASR was officially created as it is known today on 2014, its player base extends throughout Italy. They have a preference to organize their games in their own forum, where their games have been held for almost a decade, only a few rare players use discord to recruit new RPers. They maintain a philosophy of less is more, hosting only 31p or 10p games. They do not intend to grow their community in large numbers, as they feel that this can be counterproductive to the quality of the game, making it difficult to keep up with all the articles.

## General Information

### Site

https://angolodeiruolisti.forumattivo.com/

## History

In an interview with the leader of Antica Sezione Roulisti, Falco, he mentioned about the history of his community:

"For all I know, those who created our RPG Community were two moderators named Eowang and Knaimor, but all they did was to create the first core of our Community. Of this early roleplayers little did we know, as they disappeared long ago in the year 2011 leaving no traces behind themselves. Knaimor was back online once in 2015 I recall, but all he did was to look upon a new, and reborn Community. I joined in 2014 as a "neofita" (a newcomer), and I was later entrusted as the new leader of this Community by the few players still alive. Since 2014, we thrive as a small yet close community. From time to time we're in vacation, then we're all back at the same place ready for a new adventure".

When asked about the name of the community, he responded:

"We never had the need to call ourselves or to use a symbol that would represent us. But we use to call ourselves "la Sezione", which means "the Part", as we are the RP Part of supremacy1914. If you need a name, we used to call ourselves "Antica Sezione Ruolisti" (Old RPG Group), which sounds very italian and very bakery-like".

A peculiarity is the use of its own forum to organize games. About the reason for not using Discord he could tell us:

"As our community was built around me and my weirdnesses, my poor fellows don't use discord, as I have a distaste for how discord works and I prefere GoogleChat, which only requires a Google account and is similiar to WhatsApp. We have our own forum, which you can find at the link angolodeiruolisti.forumattivo.com where we publish our articles. Indeed, the main thing differing us from other groups is that we don't use DE for publishing. Forum allows you to put all the images you want to put in any font you want. And it stores them for years and years to come".

To finish with the history section, he shared with us about the old games in his community:

"We were younger and more focused, but we were also more emotional and many games failed back in the days. As we grew up we became more mature and our rules improved, we're much more sophisticated than we used to be".

## RP Style

Being such an old community, they have had a great variety of games and scenarios, set in all kinds of eras that other communities would not dare to touch in Supremacy. About this he said:

"Our RPGs are mostly historical, we played on every map any kind of historical scenario from Ancient Rome to Cold War, until Bytro decided only 31p and 10p was creatable... Our rules are sophisticated and simple at the same time, our purpose is to let everyone play till the end and not disappear, and some rules are intended to make the RPG more intriguing with Cards, etc etc, or to allow less online players to keep less attention during wars".

## Original Rounds

### 2022

La quarta Alba

Alexander Nevskij

L'armistizio di Natale

## Notable Players

Eowang, Knaimor, Falco, Nikolai Lenin, Oscuro II, Stratega Capo, AmaTIz, Astrid I, F. Helnz Guderlan, Ferdlnand-Foch, Mussu, Vlad.