Have any of you guys ever been to a message board for a tv show like breaking bad or true blood and seen all of the viewers discuss and give their opinion on the most recent episode?
"Omg, I can't believe she slept with him"
"Dude, when he killed that guy I was like whoa"
I want to replicate this but completely fabricate the whole thing for the pathfinder campaign I'm running. Essentially I want to create a topic in my own message board and create several Zerg accounts all discussing the latest session I just ran as if it was an episode of one of these shows. I came up with the idea when my players entertained the thought of'what if this campaign was a tv show?'
"Man, the budget for this season is trash. Did you see that lich? The cg was soooo fake."
"I know, right?! And there was like zero action."
"TEAM ALANTHIA!"
I saw an article writer for Magic the gatherings site do this once and thought it was hysterical. Does anybody know how I could do this? Is it possible to create your own forum and create like twenty accounts (that are all really the same person) to simulate a joke discussion on somethin?
There's free forum creation sites all over the place. Boards.net, Forumotion.com, EZboards.com, and Createforum.com (warning: this one seems about to bite the dust, if the two forums I've used on it are any indication) are just a few, you can probably find more with a quick Google. Given they're free, though, you'll be more limited with resources and such.
Most forums require an email address to sign up; if you can find the settings and remove the limitation of "all users' email addresses must be unique", you can probably kick up dummy accounts easy, sure.
Have you considered using a blogging engine like Wordpress as an alternative? That way you could write a nicer-looking "article" page for each "episode" with the comments beneath it.
You could either install your own copy on webspace somewhere, or go for a free wordpress.com account.
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If you do a campaign journal here, you can create aliases of your own ID that will look like other people. You don't need multiple userids or email addresses that way.
^ what she said is really the best idea. And it saves your players having to (re)register at yet another forum to keep track of.
This is all very hellpful! Thanks, guys :D I think the campaign journal idea may be best. Hopefully there's no limit on the number of aliases one can have.
Nope. I'm almost to 100 myself and there's a small handful of people who have even more than I do.