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Goooooood day, dearies! It’s been a long 3 months since the triumphant ending of Dangan Roleplay Round 2 and goodness gracious have we missed you all! The vacation has been great but now we’re back with some very important (and despair-inducing) announcements!

Firstly, with RL obligations intensifying for your loving Monomom and Monodad and based on how well the previous round went with another set of hands, we’ve decided to bring a third permanent mod in! After two rounds of breaking hearts as a player please welcome R1’s Jimmy Two-Shoes and R2’s Tobias player, Chi! Adore and fear her as you do Ri and Lynny. Love this Chi.

Now, there’s been a lot of talk on plurk about smaller, shorter gimmick rounds and we’re pleased to announce the first one, Disney Ronpa, will be happening January 2015. The official start date and app openings will be announced later this month. For those unaware, this is a round where only Disney/Pixar characters may be apped. This round is also out of continuity for the greater DRRP universe meaning any previously apped/invited Disney characters (ex. Anna, Elsa and Jumba) will not have murder school memories. We’ll have 15 available spots for this round.

As for Round 3, we know a good lot of you are chomping at the bit for dates and details so here you go: round 3 of Dangan Roleplay will be happening June 2015. The reason for not having another winter main round was because round 1, while delightful, had a lot of conflicts with people who were still in school or who were going to be out of town for the holidays, while we found as mods that the time conflicts in round 2 during the summer round tended to be more easily resolved and easier to work around. This also gives us more time to use Disney Ronpa to try out a couple new rules and work a couple remaining kinks out of the trial system.

Obviously, Round 3 is a ways out, so there's not much to say about it just yet. But, given the success of the last time we did it, we're going to have another Dangan Roleplay Mock Trial in preparation for it. The Mock Trial is a chance primarily for new players to experience the way that trials work firsthand, however while we would like to keep it majority newbies, we also like the balance of having a couple veteran players to keep things on the rails (mostly). This mock trial will have 20 openings, and will run similarly to the last one. It will also be entirely non-canon to the main storyline of the rounds.

Additionally, after talking about it amongst ourselves, we have decided to make Round 3 also only open to 20 participants. The reason for this is twofold - firstly, with Round 2 we actually had a problem getting to 30 participants; and secondly, as much as we loved all of you, 30 characters was just too many to trim down to the final 9. Keep in mind that the canon murder games only take place over a matter of two, three weeks at the most. Round 2 was 12 weeks long, and all the surviving characters (as well as some of the ones who were on the deceased side of the final trial) were definitely showing it by the end. So in the interest of shorter future rounds, we're dropping the character cap back down to 20.

Along with this, we will not be instituting any further restrictions with regard to reapping. The only rule is that a single character (not player) can only participate in two murder games, maximum. This is because while we do encourage new people to app, round 2 proved that having a healthy balance of veterans vs newbies overall makes the experience smoother. Since the reserves are filled on a first come, first serve basis, we feel like this is the only way to remain fair for both old and new players.

TL;DR:
- Round 3 and its mock trial will be restricted to 20 participants each.
- Disney Ronpa will be opening for 15 participants in January 2015.
- Round 3 is slated to begin early June 2015, exact dates pending.
- Chi has been appointed a permanent third mod, all hail Monosis.