Our Forum Review

Entering your forum, I directly noticed your banner. Although I noticed it, it was not that appealing, as it feels like it is way off the totality of the forum. Some of the colors in the forum does not seem effective in capturing the attention of the viewers. I'll convey them on the next section. However, I have admired the sleek appearance of your forum, which made me impressed as I went on.

In your general forum appearance, the forum post icons are very commendable. The colors do go along with one another. However, there are two icons that I feel like they are way off (New Post and No New Post) from the other forum topic icons. I would like to suggest to recreate them, but it's up to your liking. Another is the forum background. I think its strength is the same as the categories and forums, and so with that, the floating appeal is somehow not achieved. I would suggest to make the background darker so as to achieve the aforementioned thing. Lastly, there are missing descriptive images for  your category "Dorm Hall". At the time of writing, only Utopia White has that. With that, I'd wish you'd take a look in that and have it updated.

In your forum activity, it is noticeable that you have just started your forum, judging the membership date of your u1, which is dated April 3, 2016. But it is good to see that most of your members have recently visited in your forums. Though they have visited, they do not post that much. It should be taken in advantage that when they are always visiting your forum, you should provide forum games (let it be your official dueling game or just offtopic games). Provide a lot of interesting topics to discuss. Since it is a gaming forum, why not include a character creation/ card creation as part of your forum? Lastly, affiliate with the other active RPG forums. In that way, you can boost the membership in your forum. As administrators, do not be afraid to think "outside the box". Be creative! Think of something that would make your forum stand out from others.

For the staff and usergroups, their number is very reasonable. However, I'd suggest that you update your group description for each of the groups so as to inform the members about their purposes in the forums. Also, I'd suggest the change of color to the group "Admin" as it is almost unreadable. Try a lighter color.

As to your forum originality, I would say that your concept is common. Do not take it as an offensive comment, but rather, a constructive criticism, which leads me to the encouragement of letting you think of innovations that will make your forum stand out from the others. Be ambitious! Since your forum is young, I will be waiting for your updates as it really excites me to see a forum growing dramatically.

For your forum layout and organization, your layout is indeed praiseworthy. However, I'd point out the following suggestions:
1. Retention of only one of the two widgets, "Top Posters and Top posting users this month", for I think they are redundant when you'll have the two posted;
2. Reposition the category "Updates" next to either Forum Hub or Market, since updates are very important and should be seen at the top; and
3. Removal of Banned Members forum, because I think it isn't right to out emphasis on those banned members. They may be banned, but you are not there to humiliate them. I noticed that inside the mentioned forum is  a topic named "Banned Membe Sheet", which I believe will be filled out by moderators. I believe it is rightful to make it only visible to your moderators or admins.

Lastly, your grammar and spelling is exceptional! No errors spotted.

Much has been said here, although this is just a simple review. Remember that the biggest room in the world is the room of improvement, so make use of that. I hope my points above will help you.