Cruinne is an online avatar RPG community that became “officially” open to the public in early February, 2008. It is in its beta stages now, and the staff bring frequent content to the site, including quests, events, and system updates to make the site easier.

The general design of the site is nice and easy to use. The navbar underneath the banner provides a wide range of links that will take you almost everywhere you need to go. The site is also ever-expanding with bringing art to their site.

There are several things that set this site apart from other avatar communities. For one, they have been developing an in-depth web-based RPG to go along with their storyline. This allows users to perform quests such as delivering items, battling monsters, and other such tasks to receive gold, experience points, and quest-only items. The RPG is still in alpha, but never-the-less provides for quite a bit of entertainment on-site.

The site also has very original avatars. Most avatar communities use pixel art, but Cruinne uses CG, which gives a more anime feel. The avatars are also larger than average, so users can really see the neat items that they are able to equip. Unlike many avatar sites, Cruinne also has multi-position items, which gives more customization to users. They have plans to have animated items in the future as well.

While the site may still be very new, the admins and all the staff are online frequently and interact with users. They do a very good job at trying to answer questions promptly, and letting the users know that their voice does matter to the site. They allow users to be a part of the development of the site by holding monthly art contests and quest contests, so that user content may be featured as items on site, or have their quest created for the RPG.

There are a variety of ways you can make gold. You can play the RPG, or post in the forums, and soon you will be able to play flash games for gold. You can easily customize your avatar from head to toe, by using your earned gold to buy clothing.

While the site really caters to people who enjoy playing the RPG, Cruinne also enjoys catering to people who just want to be a part of the community. They offer gold as rewards for posting in the forums, and also have blogs for the users to participate in. They have hopes for flash games in the future, too.

To-date the site has been growing at an exponential rate. While they are still hard at work to bring in more features, and polish their current ones, Cruinne really adores its members and appreciates their support. You should definitely join and see what a warm, welcome, and fun community Cruinne is!