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Welcome to Masked Pandas! - Schnuupi - 12-05-2026
Hello! First I'd like to start by saying thank you for stopping by if you found yourself here. This community is something I've been wanting to get off the ground for quite a while now and I'm glad I've found myself the motivation to do it. Even if you are just checking things out I still wanna say thank you for giving it and myself your time.
What is this community all about? I've been a part of online gaming going back to the beginning of the 2000s and especially within the online roleplay communities. Starting way back on RPG-X which is a mod for Star Trek Voyager Elite Force that overhauled the game to allow deep roleplaying within the Star Trek universe. I spent a long time and being a part of many great communities during the 2000s.
During that time I discovered Garry's Mod in 2006 and got hooked. Jumping straight into Spacebuild servers and later finding the Taco'n'Banana HL2RP server and falling in love with the deep serious roleplay it offered which reminded me of RPG-X. Serious roleplay just felt elevated above your traditional RP gamemodes because it puts the players imagination and creativity first above objective jobs and roles you have to follow that end up feeling like a minigame objective. Serious RP gamemodes had no goal, no set way to accomplish anything, you did what you thought up and embedded your character and their story into the world of the server with everyone else.
After spending many years in RP servers and even then running my own community and sadly short lived Clockwork: HL2RP server I left the Garry's Mod space for a good number of years. After becoming tired of most modern gaming especially multiplayer gaming, I did my tour of the Overwatch trenches, the Battlefield trenches and others. I always wanted to come back to Garry's Mod and try to see if I could recreate that feeling of intimate, creative and freeform roleplay that I remembered.
That brings us to here! I've made this community because I've decided to see if I can create my own gamemode from scratch and not rely on framework gamemodes. It's made with my memory and knowledge of past serious roleplay gamemodes but also my own ideas and creativity put in. I'm not trying to clone those old gamemodes but make something new that has the same feel while being fresh.
I've been working on it for a while but have now decided to put it live onto a server for anyone to join and enjoy. It is under active development and although there are no errors or unfinished features in the live version I haven't done extensive stress testing of every feature as I've had limited people to help with that. With more people who join and play this should become much easier to spot issues or things which don't quite work right or feel the way they should. All feature suggestions and bug reports will be available to make on the dedicated forum for the server.
I don't want to ramble too much and I will post more with updates to the server and going over features I add or change. For now I want to say thank you for finding this community and trying it out! Even that means a lot to me.
Thank you and be a happy Citizen of City 18.