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What are the most commonly used markdown tags when doing online role playing chats?
This sort of thing isn’t standardized; it varies from group to group and sometimes from player to player.
On a technical level, you’re almost-certainly better off using an off-the-shelf, standards-...
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What are the techniques for writing descriptive posts in a timely manner as a game master?
Sacrifice specificity for flair.
You can write in great detail about the curliques on the cabinet facings and the details of the room that show a miniature portrayal of the people's lives within.
Or ...
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A dyslexic friend wants to play with an online group in a text-based game; how can I help them participate?
It all depends on what type of dyslexia your friend has. Using the Dyslexie font may help with keeping up with the wall of text. It helps me when I'm writing, I don't get really bad headaches because ...
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Are aftercare/feedback techniques for play by chat different to in person play, and how does it work when we all have a tight schedule?
When I wrote the Stars and Wishes answer that is linked by the OP, I had also included some experience or this tool in online settings, but I will summarize:
Stars and Wishes are somewhat easy to ...
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How to improve the variety of narration in my text-only game of D&D?
Play by Chat made easy!
I am very deep in the MUSH scene. MUSHes use Telnet connections to transmit pure text, and text formatting basically is not existing on that level. On many a MUSH you can only ...
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How to improve the variety of narration in my text-only game of D&D?
Oh Captain, My Captain
Playing by chat is a task that has frequent pitfalls due to the lack of expression that any logical mind can fall into. You want to be concise and direct so that other players ...
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Are aftercare/feedback techniques for play by chat different to in person play, and how does it work when we all have a tight schedule?
Aftercare and after-session feedback are two different things with different goals. Understanding that difference may be informative to your problem.
After-session feedback is exactly what it sounds ...
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What are the most commonly used markdown tags when doing online role playing chats?
KRyan’s answer is spot-on and you should go read that first.
That said, there are a couple of additional considerations here that I feel worth pointing out which are unfortunately too much for a ...
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What are the techniques for writing descriptive posts in a timely manner as a game master?
You can't have it all.
Sorry.
You may have heard the adage (popular in software development and/or project management) that a product can be done "Fast, Cheap, and Good: Pick Two". You have ...
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How can I manage player's secret actions on play by chat in Mouse Guard?
Use an online collaboration tool.
A common tool in the Agile programming methodology is anonymous collaborative assessment of task effort, often called "sprint poker" or "pointing poker&...
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How to improve the variety of narration in my text-only game of D&D?
I'm in a play-by-post game (Dungeon Fantasy RPG: Powered by GURPS in my case), have been for more than six years (or about three months character time). We usually post twice a day, vs. every few ...
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What are the techniques for writing descriptive posts in a timely manner as a game master?
I am actively using Telnet to play in an RPG, and as such face making up descriptions in multiple ways. Of course, I could handcraft descriptions for things spending hours upon hours on making a wall ...
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How can I manage player's secret actions on play by chat in Mouse Guard?
Send it in rot13
Send the messages with online encryption. You can use rot13 or any of a variety of similar encryption services. They can share what they are using to you before, or you can just use ...
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How can I increase the pace and intensity of a text based game as a GM?
I have been GMing realtime text campaigns for years, and also playing when given the opportunity, so here are some things that I've found to work to varying degrees. None of them are panaceas, and no ...
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What are the most commonly used markdown tags when doing online role playing chats?
First of all, I think this question isn't related to Role playing, despite the fact that you're building a Role playing app. It's a simply UX question, which has its own SE: https://ux.stackexchange....
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What are the techniques for writing descriptive posts in a timely manner as a game master?
Are you taking time to think of the description or are you hamstrung by typing?
The former you can practice with flashcards to speed up your reaction or take some classes in improv to get faster at ...
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How can I encourage more proactive players to distribute information they have gathered to other involved players?
Player-initiated summaries benefit everyone.
Since you're presenting information to be used cooperatively, having a player do the summary has benefits for everyone involved in the process.
It helps ...
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