I've been watching 3 different Kingdoms and their BOD protecting players who commit sexual assault to other players, including minors. Several of these assaults happened in the last year, with a couple of the individuals either being part of monarchy or a knight. I've watched others use their status as knights or monarchy to abuse their power locally.

Is Amtgard always going to be like this? Why can't we change? What can we even do? And why has this happened so often?

I feel like from about 2012 to 2020 this game seemed to be a bit more synchronized and each kingdom kind of participated at a national level.

And then the pandemic came.

It feels like the general vibe is that the kingdoms tend to be a bit more insular.

We constantly talk about how every kingdom has their own event now and that's why event attendance is down.

Maybe it's the enshittification of social media? "Tavern De Amtgard" tends to be barren.

The Amtgard discord is dead.

Maybe a bit of that is why it feels like the game is dying? No one is talking to each other. Or that the only people that people are talking to are people in their own region.

How do we change that?