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[Fubb]

I did similar...On the Bethesda Softworks forums, they had The Elder Scrolls fan fiction, aswell as RPing, and some of the RP's were either awful, or only fun for awhile and died out. But some, are still going, and they've been goign forever! And the DM's act as players aswell for some, whereas in others they just DM. Pretty neat stuff.

See i'd get pwn3d in a D&D rolepaly though, because I know nothing of DnD

[Saccade]

Did they ever make a SLA Industries computer game?

[El Quia]

Ah, pen and paper role playing games... I love them! I'm a role player since '93 and I couldn't (not that I wanted to) quit since then. Although I could not play regularly all those years, in the last three I am playing a lot more often and, at last, I am not the only GM (I was almost the only GM amongst my friends between 1996 and 2005/6).

Right now I'm GMing a AD&D 2nd Edition campaign and an Unknown Armies campaign. A friend is GMing Star Wars d20, and another one GMs some experimentals one-shots. And we have an unfinished D&D 3.5 that will have to wait since may.

I have never played by post nor by email nor by chat. I shudder at the idea, although I think that by not trying to duplicate exactly the tabletop experience, it could be a very interesting experience. If anyone is trying to star a Play by post RPG (or play by email), please send me a pm to evaluate if I could hop into!

[Saccade]

The only play by post games I ever used was VGA Planets and Chess.

I think that something beautiful would be lost if roleplaying games such as AD&D were played in that manner.

I've watched people play WhiteWolf RPG's in chatboxes and it just degenerates into disorder and nob jokes...
And if your character has a stutter or something, it'd be r-r-r-really annoying to have to type it all out all the time.

[El Quia]

I remember a mage game played in a chat channel that I read at the GM's site. Obviously, it was edited to filter all the crap about dice rolling and such, but it was a really good reading. But I suppose that's depends on the group.

And sure, the typical AD&D campaign played by post would be very different to the tabletop experience. But I think that, realizing the differences and limitation of the play by post style, you could have a very satisfying experience, albeit a more literary one (in the sense that it gives you more time to expose your action and portray your character with more care). But I accept that I didn't played in this way, so it is all a conjecture

[Saccade]

We could give it a go, perhaps?

How long's the post between England and Argentina?
Wait... that's what email's for isn't it?

Anyone interested in this except us two?

[Tomekk]

Your talking about "text-RPGs" that you play in forums via posting, right?

Then look around the Competition/Games section and you'll see that a lot of people are already interested in this

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by Tomekk

Your talking about "text-RPGs" that you play in forums via posting, right?

Then look around the Competition/Games section and you'll see that a lot of people are already interested in this

What I saw there was more like free form collaborative writing: It has almost no rules, everyone is modifying the world and there is no discernible Game Master. We are talking something more similar to tabletop, but with the modifications necessary for it to work on a forum.

[Saccade]

Do you think that, if it was structured and had more of a Real Life RPG feel to it, that it'd work in the same way, El?

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by Saccade

Do you think that, if it was structured and had more of a Real Life RPG feel to it, that it'd work in the same way, El?

What do you mean by "Real Life RPG"? I can't think of anything by that name off the top of my head. It's a gaming style?

By the way, calling me "El" sounds weird, as if I am some kind of Kryptonian or something :P. "El", in spanish, is like "The" in english. Calling me "Quia" is just fine, if you want a shorter name ("quia" means something like "guy" in "lunfardo", a kind of argentinian slang).