Best Free PBP Messageboard w / dice roller and private messages?

The subject says it all. Any recommendations?

The subject says it all. Any recommendations?

I'd say Myth-Weavers would be your best bet. Some learning curve, but overall a nice community.

Hope that helps!

Myth-Weavers is fine; it has all of the bells and whistles that you're looking for (private mailboxes, a dice roller, you can even make parts of a post only visible to certain players).

BUT.

On a personal note, I prefer to minimize the number of web sites I visit. So I'd much rather play in a play-by-post game on this web site (that I visit already, naturally) rather than having to check yet another web site from time to time. YMMV, of course.

Hmmm. Probably wouldn't be too hard to add a dice roller. How would you expect it to work?

How would you expect it to work?

I misread this as "Would you expect it to work?". Hee hee...

Generally, you have some tags like:
1d20 + 31d8 + 2 ⇒ (9) + (2, 8, 3, 1, 5, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 8, 1, 8, 3, 7, 8, 7, 5, 8, 4, 8, 7, 5, 3, 3, 4, 8, 5) + 2 = 167

And the output looks like:
1d20+3 = 8, 1d8+2 = 5

But you have to make sure that it doesn't roll the dice again every time someone edits the post.

Hmmm. Probably wouldn't be too hard to add a dice roller. How would you expect it to work?

How about adding a roulette wheel and a poker table while you are at it? Some slot machines would also be nice too! ~grins and runs~

How would you expect it to work?

Like invisiblecastle.com does.

Gary Teter wrote:

How would you expect it to work?

Like invisiblecastle.com does.

Depending on if people want to be able to look up old rolls or what not.

Yes, the "audit" information is useful.

For what it's worth, I find this dice roller a bit better:
http://hwx.it/wizards.com/session.php

And example of a session I'm using for a Paizo.com pbp game:
http://hwx.it/wizards.com/dice.php?sid=2657

As Hogarth suggested, use 1d6d1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

And the output looks like:
Longsword Attack: 1d20(5)+3 = 8

One of the harder parts of a dice roller is making sure the result can't be edited.

This thread has become incredibly awesome.

Plug away!

http://barroks-tower.net/forum/

Adding in the oddball dice (d2, d3, d30) would be nice as well. Even cooler would be the ability to define our own number of sides to the dice.

A built in Paizonian dice rolling BBCode would make my life easier. I say go for it!

Adding in the oddball dice (d2, d3, d30) would be nice as well. Even cooler would be the ability to define our own number of sides to the dice.

The Barrok's Tower chat room allows you to choose the number and size of your dice. Also the community is nice, and there is alot of content to the site.

As a side note I plug there for here too.

The Barrok's Tower chat room allows you to choose the number and size of your dice. Also the community is nice, and there is alot of content to the site.

As a side note I plug there for here too.

It's almost like you're plugging the site...

*looks up*

Oh!

I get it! :p

I'll check the place out, thanks for the reference. : )

EDIT: After a bit of perusing, there is indeed a LOT of content there. I think I've found a new site to mine for goodies to torture my players with! I thank you doubly for the reference!

As another note, a person/alias-specific spoiler BBCode would just be the bee's knees as well ... Long as I'm typing up my list to Santa Teter.

A built in Paizonian dice rolling BBCode would make my life easier. I say go for it!

Yes please. :P

Ignorance Alert!!

What is a BBCode?

Ignorance Alert!!

What is a BBCode?

BBCode = Bulletin Board Code. HTML lite, lets you bold and italic certain items with square brackets, among other things. When you post, click on the "Show" button next to "BBCode tags you can use" underneath the text entry box.

I've elected to try Helm's Deep. It has everything I've been looking for. You may want to check it out.

I've elected to try Helm's Deep. It has everything I've been looking for. You may want to check it out.

Hmmm...it doesn't look like it's very active.

I agree it appears fledgling, but I believe that is partly because you have the option of making your game private, so that it doesn't even appear in the list of active games. Once you've got a game forum set-up, you can see a list of several other games in play.

I agree it appears fledgling, but I believe that is partly because you have the option of making your game private, so that it doesn't even appear in the list of active games. Once you've got a game forum set-up, you can see a list of several other games in play.

Ah! That makes more sense. I was a bit puzzled when it looked like there were only a handful of games started in 2008!

A friend wrote a dice-bot for skype, before we started using maptool in an online game (known to us a "the evil dice-bot") I bet I could get him to email the code to the postmonster.

I would recomend Groovygamers or PBPHouse.

Both are great PBP sites.

testing here...nothing to see

1d20 ⇒ 13

I quite like RPOL.

Each GM gets to set up their own section in which to run their game pretty much as they please. The system is automated, so you don't need to ask an administrator to set up an area or approve what you want to do.

The die roller is quite sophisticated, and keeps a log of who rolled what. The GM can make secret rolls, I think players can make ones that only themselves and the GM can see, but haven't tried that yet!

Within your game area you have a lot of control. You can set up numerous threads, and control which of the players have access to each one - good if you have a party that likes to split up.

Each player has a space to keep a character sheet, viewable by them and the GM, and one in which they can write a public description of their character for everyone to see. When you are admitted to a game, the GM sets your character name so that all posts in that game appear to come from your character without your needing to recall who you are.

There are 2 message systems, a PM one within each game and one across the whole site. GMs can see any conversation on the in-game PMs.

Images can be displayed within threads, provided they are somewhere online - you do need to know how to add an image in HTML code (just write <img src="complete web address of your image"> if you don't know!), but the in-post help covers most of the colour and emphasis you may wish to add to a message. Unfortunately you cannot upload images to the site, so you'll need to use an image-hosting site or stick them on your own webpages if you have any. (I use a hidden directory on one of my sites.)

There's an extensive gallery of 'mugshots' for your character portrait, which links automatically to the public description of your character... if you don't like any of them, add your own by posting it as an image in your description. They offer a facility to e-mail in your image to add it to the portrait collection, but that means it will be available to anyone, which you may not want.

There are OOC areas to advertise for players or GMs, and one for general conversation which I hardly ever go to. Or you can just tell prospective players you've recruited elsewhere where your game area is.

Adult content is permitted provided that your game is tagged 'Adult' and all participants make an age declaration saying that they are old enough to view adult content in the place in which they live. (This is on a trust basis, nobody checks that I'm really a 51-year-old living in the UK!)

When you are running a game, everyone wishing to play (or even look at anything you've not tagged public) has to make a Request To Join (RTJ) which sends a PM to the GM, who can then decide to admit that person, and sets up their character. Most GMs have a public RTJ thread which visitors can read, to explain what they want - character concept, fully generated character or whatever.

Oh, and it's all free and not cluttered with adverts.

I'm running a Pathfinder Society OP section, by the way. The door is always open... :)

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