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Are there any online sites in which you can look for people that are looking to play in an online play-by-chat RPG Campaign?

I'm thinking of running a Pathfinder campaign for Skype (text only) and I don't have a group of players.

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A lot of RPG forums have sections for this, maybe you should check them out? – Dakeyras Nov 11 '12 at 12:07
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Duplicate of Where can I find other RPG players? – Jonathan Hobbs Nov 11 '12 at 12:19
Not really a duplicate, I'm asking for places where I can find people for Skype (text) games, not in person or play by post. – Nocte Nov 11 '12 at 12:23
Could be argued either way. From my experience though the sites listed in the possible duplicate are likely to come up again for this question. – Phil Nov 11 '12 at 15:23

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Most RPG Forums have sections for finding people for play-by-post, skype or in person games. Some links that may help (these are sites I have used before, although not for online games):

Giant in the Playground
Knights 'n' Knaves
Role-Player.net

However, I would suggest looking for Pathfinder-specific forums or sites if you can (I can't personally recommend any). A little google-fu can go a long way.

Alternatively, there are mailing lists out there for people like you. Again, I've never used any personally, but they are a good way to reach a lot of people with similar interests/intentions.

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Knight 'n' Knaves seem to be very slow and I think, inactive forum. The problem with R-P.net is that there's not that many people. – Nocte Nov 12 '12 at 9:14
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Forums tend to favor play-by-post games on that forum; you may have better luck with IRC channels. There are many out there, but the only one I'm personally familiar with is #giantitp. They're not very big on Pathfinder, though, they prefer 3.5 standard.

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+1 for Giant in the Playground – Dakeyras Nov 11 '12 at 23:02
I use the homebrew section of the forum but folks in that forum haven't been interested in starting a game with me. (Tried more than two times.) and it is getting quite annoying. – Nocte Nov 12 '12 at 9:10
@Nocte: Not sure if you're talking about the forum or the unofficial IRC channel. The latter's only loosely related to the former. The forum tends to prefer play-by-post on the forum; the chat tends to prefer live games via MapTool, Roll20, IRC, or Skype. Like I said, though, they don't care much for Pathfinder; I was mostly suggesting that there are almost certain IRC channels that do. I just don't know them. – KRyan Nov 12 '12 at 13:35
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In my experience, the best place to find an online group is reddit. They even have a handy filter at the top for finding only online games. Pathfinder and D&D 3+ are very popular there, and other games pop up less frequently (I found an amazing Changeling game via reddit, for example.)

As others have mentioned, forums are a good second option:

Post a message in all three places. If you actually want to run a game, I reckon you'll have no trouble at all finding players - willing GMs are a hot commodity!

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