These are not fully fledged RPs Merlin. I'm calling them quests for a reason. They are short little bits, not intended to be much longer than like 30 posts at the most. There is enough material for everyone to post enough to be judged, in a group of 2 I had said roughly 10 posts was enough. In the groups we have of 4, 20 to 30 posts would be plenty, since you have more people. I do not expect these to be long RPs, I would be crazy to expect that.

The other thing to keep in mind is that everyone here is a RPer by nature or has RPed. If you are using RPBs as your standard, then yes 6 months is stupidly long. But we are not RPBs, this is a RP Tournament. That by default is going to make it a little more involved and a little longer. For those that have been here for a year, how many RPs are completed in three months, and how many RPs go for a year? Six month for a standard RP is pretty normal, whether it dies or is completed. Six months is normal. Everyone here should be used to the long haul.

And Merlin, I did say that I edited my original post, in my post after you about the strange 10 to 8. Here is how I explained it, the best eight, or the worst two from the second rounds of the priliminaries are pulled out and the finals proceed with 8.

Now this is easily changed and we can drop out to 6 people, and cut out a round. Right now I am looking at 5 rounds total, that being enough. Which is only one round longer than Loco's ToA.

And as I said at the top, 15 pages for this, is stupid. All I expect out of the quests is about five to ten posts per RPer, I hope for ten, expect to five. Some will post more and other less. As long as the quest is completed things are good. I expect about 15 to 30 posts per quest, which with 4 for people in the group, is not really unreasonable at all, 15 should be very easy. That give enough time to do the quest. If they want, they can post more, I will not stop someone from posting more and more often. But I am inclinded towards the month deadline. It might be easier to say three weeks and a week to wrap things up. So it rounds out to an even month.