Eleutheria - Historical Greece

UPDATED May 2021: Started out great, but big map made it hard for plotting to keep going. Lots of staff turnover. 

Wonderful Game!  This is a beautiful site with well thought out set of canons. But, you can also play an original too!  This all combined with a great community of super helpful staff and members. They were so welcoming. I could get to playing right after acceptance!

There are very few Greek sites to choose from on forum platforms; it’s a hard niche to find something that promises to last a while, be active, and also have a good community with fair game runners. The community is really passionate about the era and its setting, more than willing to help people like me, and is not going to fade in the background. The creators have put a lot of time into the project from the beginning, with the help of their base to create an environment that treats a member as more than just a number.

It has a fairly active OOC community based in Discord, many wanteds to choose from, and even more characters. Once accepted, characters are announced with the admin’s personal summary/synopsis which is a nice touch. Writers themselves tend to get into their scenes, the average being 400+ words. They’re passionate people and it shows through their enthusiasm.

I’m not particularly well versed in this timeframe but Eleu makes it easy to digest unfamiliar information with streamlined resources and provides visual references. The site itself is not visually overwhelming, and after personally seeing the coder customize premade skins from the beginning to present, it will get even better in the future. I encourage people to check it out!

This site is my home.  I love everything about it and even helped out a bit in its creation.  The dedication of the staff in just the site alone should tell you how much they care about this amazing place.  With a light and dark skin, everyone can enjoy the site how they want.  The lore is so deep and rich and no matter your question, they are there to help or help you find it.  Being historical Greece, it's sort of hard to know everything, but they went out of their way to make it so you at least have a good grip on everything.

The ability to make either one of their amazing canon's or your own awesome original character, sets you up perfectly for getting something you want.  Oh, and don't forget about the people always online in the discord that will help you figure out what you want and hash out details with you.  It's always been helpful for me.

Last but not least, the members.  Everyone who has joined this site has been amazing and made me feel right at home.  I don't see myself feeling like anywhere else or at least haven't yet.  We are one big happy family and always looking for new ones to grab in our massive group hugs.  It's an insane bunch of people but they all mesh together so well and make the site such an inviting place.

There really isn't a bad site to Eleu, accept maybe that you can only start with two characters and from there need a certain amount of posts.  So all you character hoarder (like me) be prepared.  Just means you can really develop the ones you start with.

Well I hope this helps anyone who is interested.  Hope to plot with you soon!

First off, I've created and run and lived and breathed ancient Greece for many years. Both the myth and ancient history sides are quasi-passions of mine, but without time to admin my own sites, it's been impossible to find good ancient Greece ones. This is the only one I've been happy with enough to join, and I'm thrilled that I did.

The site itself is unparalleled in how well it's put together. The amount of detail the staff here has gone through to create and run this is stunning. Information, lore, rules, canon lists - not to mention the Discord, challenges to inspire people, and even the social media and advertising is like a well-oiled machine. It's not wonder to me that this site is absolutely skyrocketing off the ground.

Not only is the site absolutely beautiful, but the people are lovely. There's a very good mix of people with a lot of historical knowledge and those without. There are people from every corner of the world, too, which is neat to interact with! Someone is always in chat, and the staff is very involved and consistently making sure everyone is welcome and in the fold - like personalized character acceptance notifications (which every site should adopt because it's one of the best methods I've seen used).

The only drawback I can see is based on personal preference, and easily acceptable in the face of everything else. If you're someone like me who likes getting apps out of the way and thrives off a variety of plots and personalities to start with, just know that you will only be able to start with 2 characters, and from there, both of those require 20 IC posts before another can be applied for. For some of us that's a hefty undertaking, but again - worth it.

Anyways. I'm long-winded, but there is so much to say here. In the end, I'm so happy to have found this site.

Amazing game❤️

The ability to world build in a historical setting while keeping it fun and easy for anyone to jump in puts them head and shoulders above others in the genre.