I'm just wrapping up my first play by post game, ch 1 of RotRL, and the darned thing took over a year to complete! I've been trying to figure out a way to make my next stab at pbp run much faster yet still tell an epic, meaningful story, and I think my answer might lie in the Second Darkness AP.
If I split the path into three seperate arcs, with three seperate mini-groups I can theoretically move through the path at three times the speed.
I'm thinking group one would be a couple of urban adventurers running through chps 1&2, group 2 would be played by Crying Leaf elves (possibly the leaders) running chps 3&5. The third group gets to play some Drow infiltrators trying to take down the opposition. They would play through chp 4. All three groups would then move to chapter 6 and start exploring there concurrently, crossing each other's paths and hopefully allying up in time for the dramatic conclusion.
What do you think? Too ambitious? Too much plot revision required? Obvoiously I'm struggling a bit with how to keep the leveling fair too.
Also, any general advice any PbP veterans out there can give me on how to keep these things running smoothly would be greatly appreciated!