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Up until Free RPG Day this year, I've only been able to find SFS games by playing Play-by-Post. I really enjoyed the PbP games, and now that a new PFS group started earlier this year and most of the players are also interested in SFS, I now have the problem of how to deal with playing both ways at the same time.
Luckily, it sounds like SF2e will have replays on all scenarios, so that helps, but with the live group being able to play scenarios almost as fast as they come out, that doesn't leave much or any room for playing PbP unspoiled. So I was wondering if anyone else who's been in this situation has any suggestions on how to balance playing both life and PbP? Here are a few questions and thoughts running around my head on the subject.
1. Do you find it more fun as a player to replay in a PbP or live a game?
2. Does it help to make separate characters for each type of game?
3. Play characters live, and GM PbP?
4. Play SF2e live and keep playing SF1e PbP?
5. Whatever you do, don't...
6. Don't forget to...
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It's not always (or even often) possible, but I like to try and experience things first as a Player, and then GM it - either for home / IRL groups, or Online, or whatever.
In practice, this ends up looking like playing new scenarios as they come out at the big online conventions (either VTT or PbP) and then GMing them, in whatever medium you want.
One piece of advice, though - when you're juggling which PCs can play a scenario or receive credit for GMing them with multiple play modes, do recall that, although the rules are very clear on PCs only being able to participate in one adventure at a time, Chronicles from GMing can still be assigned, even during a long PbP adventure - they just don't take effect until after.
(At least, that's how 1e works. TBD if there'll be changes in 2e, once that campaign's rules come out!)