Play by Post Question

[Iziak]

Hi-

My previous post seems to have completely dissapeared, so I'll try again:

I'm considering starting a PbP game (still haven't quite decided) but if I do I wanted to try and have an actual meeting time where everyone in the group is on and active for 3-4 hours or whatever, instead of having a slow and stilted kind of game the way the most PbP games are (at least the one's that I've viewed on this site). This, however, brings up two questions:

1) Is Paizo okay with this? Because if there are 5-7 people on at the same time constantly posting, it would mostly take up the "recent posts" bar on various pages of the website... If you guys would rather not have a game like that, I understand completely.

2) Provided Paizo doesn't mind, I have to wonder how you access additional pages of the messageboards... if nothing is posted for a week or so in a thread and it drops down below the bottom of the page, is it still accessible? Is it gone forever? I just don't see any obvious "next page" buttons.

Thanks!

EDIT: My previous post appears to have popped back into existence. I've deleted it.

[Cpt_kirstov]

I don't think it would be an issue with the lots of posting, the recent posts just does that recent threads, not individual posts I think..

For this type of game I would recommend thinking about doing it in a chat room (you can use www.dmtools.org/chat and look fo r the command on the left to create more room and invite others to them.) and then at the end of your session, post a log of what was siad in the chat. (maybe to the campaign journals part of the messageboards) remember what your thread's name is, so if it does fall off the page you can use the search function on the top left of the page.

[Iziak]

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

I don't think it would be an issue with the lots of posting, the recent posts just does that recent threads, not individual posts I think..

For this type of game I would recommend thinking about doing it in a chat room (you can use www.dmtools.org/chat and look fo r the command on the left to create more room and invite others to them.) and then at the end of your session, post a log of what was siad in the chat. (maybe to the campaign journals part of the messageboards) remember what your thread's name is, so if it does fall off the page you can use the search function on the top left of the page.

Thanks!

[DM_Iziak]

Well, I'm probably going to scrap the idea of having a set time... a normal PbP may work better anyways. I am trying to get a game together right now here if you're interested. It's either going to be a straight RotR or a RotR/CotCT hybrid.

[Paris Crenshaw]

Iziak,

If you're interested in starting a PbP game, then I highly suggest you try RoleplayMarket.com. The site is specifically designed for play-by-post games and has lots of great features and support tools.

Cheers!

[DM_Iziak]

Paris Crenshaw wrote:

Iziak,

If you're interested in starting a PbP game, then I highly suggest you try RoleplayMarket.com. The site is specifically designed for play-by-post games and has lots of great features and support tools.

Cheers!

I'm actually planning on just doing it here... I don't really need anything fancy for a PbP.

[Daeglin]

Paris Crenshaw wrote:

Iziak,

If you're interested in starting a PbP game, then I highly suggest you try RoleplayMarket.com. The site is specifically designed for play-by-post games and has lots of great features and support tools.

Cheers!

Fixed link.

[Paris Crenshaw]

thanks for the fix, Daeglin...not sure what happened, there.

[DM_Iziak]

DM_Iziak wrote:

Well, I'm probably going to scrap the idea of having a set time... a normal PbP may work better anyways. I am trying to get a game together right now here if you're interested. It's either going to be a straight RotR or a RotR/CotCT hybrid.

My PbP game's thread is in a new location: here .

[Vic Wertz]

Iziak wrote:

Because if there are 5-7 people on at the same time constantly posting, it would mostly take up the "recent posts" bar on various pages of the website... If you guys would rather not have a game like that, I understand completely.

People who have forums closed (via the little triangle thingy) don't see posts in those forums in their view of recent posts... so as long as folks are using the triangles, it's not a big problem.

Iziak wrote:

...if nothing is posted for a week or so in a thread and it drops down below the bottom of the page, is it still accessible? Is it gone forever? I just don't see any obvious "next page" buttons.

Older threads go into the archive; there's a link to browse each forum's archive at the top of each forum.

[Iziak]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Iziak wrote:

Because if there are 5-7 people on at the same time constantly posting, it would mostly take up the "recent posts" bar on various pages of the website... If you guys would rather not have a game like that, I understand completely.

People who have forums closed (via the little triangle thingy) don't see posts in those forums in their view of recent posts... so as long as folks are using the triangles, it's not a big problem.

Iziak wrote:

...if nothing is posted for a week or so in a thread and it drops down below the bottom of the page, is it still accessible? Is it gone forever? I just don't see any obvious "next page" buttons.

Older threads go into the archive; there's a link to browse each forum's archive at the top of each forum.

Thanks Vic, but I've decided it's a better idea to do a standard PbP. However, both of these are nice to know for future reference. Thanks!