PPR

Pokemon Paper Roleplay was the precursor to No Golds Allowed. It originated as a Roblox game run by Ressicle, dedicated to roleplaying Pokemon as 2D sprites in a 3D world. The forum created for players of the game eventually gained its own culture, little to do with the game or Pokemon at all, and split off, becoming NGA.

History
In 2014 a forum was created by TimeToRunLetsGo, intended for user complaints and organization of larger roleplays. This forum almost immediately developed a culture of its own; storywriting, artwork and other off-topic boards were created. There was also, as with any online community, a load of hilarious drama. Because of this drama, in summer 2015 TimeToRunLetsGo resigned as admin and Ressicle created a second PPR forum. This second PPR forum was where the shared PPR culture began to almost completely split off from the game, coming into its own based in a shared interest in Fire Emblem and weird Tumblr comedy. This tended to conflict with people on the forum who still actually cared about the game, and after a 2016 incident involving a bunch of people with identical Cutiefly-based profiles the forum users split off to a new forum run by Bid: NGA.

For a glimpse of the forum's history from when it was still happening, take a look at the PPR wiki.