A game where communication is handled asynchronously in text. Includes playing by post (snail mail) as well as email, posting boards, forums, and other asynchronous text mediums.
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How is a play-by-email game actually played?
I'm currently interested in learning more about play-by-email RPGs. Searching the Web, I've found many forums and sites promoting PbeM campaigns (Aelyria and Blue Dwarf, for instance), but nothing ...
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Recommend a web-based narrative RPG
I have played forum based RPG before. Posting is something like once per day and nothing is required other than text-writing capacity. I would like to try that again, but in English. It should be a ...
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Where has the community from Avidgamers (1 & 2) migrated to?
Where has the community from Avidgamers (1 & 2) migrated to?
The original Avidgamers.com was teeming with personal RP site. There was a conversion/migration to a new ag2.avidgamers.com site, but ...
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Is Diaspora suitable for forum play by post?
I bought Diaspora recently, having very much enjoyed Don't Rest Your Head and being a huge fan of harder Scifi. I'm curious how well it holds up to play by post gaming compared to something like ...
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How do I promote my gaming campaigns?
I have two campaigns on two different sites and I need players. So how do I promote my games in order to get more players?
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How do I, as a player transition my group from Play in Person to Play by Post?
We've just finished our 8 week slot at my local university gaming society, and I feel like events were unresolved. I'd like to transition the game into a play by post option on the society forum so we ...
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Rules for a play-by-post forum?
With my RPG group we decided to setup a private online forum to play in differed time together (and other reasons that are not the subject of the question).
Installing and setting the forum itself ...
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How to handle miniatures on a forum-based game?
When running a web forum game of an RPG that requires miniatures (such as D&D 4e), what's the most elegant way to handle a combat grid?
In particular:
Players should be able to change the map ...
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Is there any other RPG that includes snailmail-writing as an integral component?
In De Profundis, an important part of the game is writing and sending letters to the other players. It's played in real-time with mail correspondence being the only form of contact between players. ...
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What is the genre of play-by-snail-mail RPGs called?
I'm looking for games similar to De Profundis: Letters from the Abyss, which is a role-playing game played by snail mail, without any face-to-face contact. What is the genre called?
I've tried to ...
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Method for playing an online text-based RPG that doesn't require everyone to be online at once?
I am contemplating starting up a web-based text game for my D&D group to be played alongside our weekly sessions. The idea would be to play through events related to the main storyline, but not so ...
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Playing on IRC, getting started
I live where no tabletop has ever been played, thus I had to search elsewhere for some games, namely the Internet. I've spent a lot of time browsing the web but the best communities I could find where ...
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How can I make D&D 4e work as a “play by post” game?
I'm trying to start a play by post game with my friends. I was thinking about using D&D 4th Edition (it's the game we play the most). We really know the system and it would make for little work ...
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What are good techniques for resurrecting a stalled campaign?
We had a really good play-by-post game going for a while, but now it has seemed to stall. I've talked with the member who seems to be most responsible for stalling the game, and he still shows ...
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What RPG systems work well online?
I have a number of RPG-loving friends, but they're unfortunately scattered around the world. I'd like to run a game with them online, using emails or message boards or something of that ilk. (like ...
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Are there any tricks to a successful play-by-post/play-by-e-mail game?
I've played in a couple of play-by-post games over the last couple of years, and they've all ended more-or-less unsatisfactorily. Usually posting would slowly wind down until we hit a bottleneck of ...
