Hi.
Would there be any interest in a PBP game. Feel we have gotten enough rules to go through character creation and some simple homebrewed scenarios. And hopefully by that time gotten a look at more of the rules.
I'm very interested in Play By Post!
Play by post might be the only way I get to play for a while.
I'd be interested, depending on the frequency.
I'd absolutely be in! We can definitely do character creation already, and Chapter 5 (scene creation) should be released to backers in the very near future.
Does Chapter 5 also include how to build Villains?
If they remain consistent to what they presented in the Kickstarter outline, yes.
Slightly off-topic; does anyone know how to get the forum to alert you to new activity (preferably just within specific threads, though I'd settle for anything in the SCRPG forum). It'd certainly help with play by post if done here.
Great, there's interest. Can't find any way to subscribe to threads sadly.
First off we should figure out if we should play here or if there's a site better suited. Also, what kind of game people wants. The last part could evolve based on character creation.
I'd also be up for a play by forum game.
Myth-Weavers and RollGate are the two platforms I'm aware of. I personally found Myth-Weavers a bit arcane to use, though it's feature-rich. Haven't tried RollGate yet. Really you don't need much. Could play here well enough either on the honor system or with an online roller (I like Orokos).
Leffa, I assume you're volunteering to GM? If so, did you have a campaign idea or two in mind? I like the idea of adjusting the game style through character creation but PbP doesn't lend itself well to that. If you did want to go with something like that, a formal guided process might be a good idea (e.g. stealing FATE's system).
We could also do it on Discord. There is the Discord-Bot someone made.
I'd forgotten there's a Discord-Bot! And that would certainly allow for notifications! But I dunno how well hp tracking would work there. Eh, there'll be hiccups on any platform really. In any case, count me in! I have a variety of character ideas, but who or what I go with all depends on the tone and style of the game...
Preface each post:
HP: <Hp Number> ; Zone(Personal) ; Zone(Actual) ;
<Entity Doing Stuff>
Append to end of post:
<Next Entity To Go>, <Tag in some way to their controller>
That would be my idea for a template, but I don't know how the Discord Bot specifically works. The bot might need to interupt a post to give out results, in which case split up the <Entity Doing Stuff> around the Discord Bot, and end post stream with the appended stuff?
Or, and this is inefficient but a way I've handled solo play via Google Doc:
Round x
Heroes:
- Hero 1: Health, Bonuses, Penalties
-- Minions or extra effects
Villains:
- Villain 1/Villain Group 1: Sizes/Health(if public), Bonuses, Penalties
-- Members of group, challenge status, extra effects
Environment:
- Environment Target 1/Environment Challenge 1: Bonuses, Penalties
-- Members of target, challenge status, extra effects
<ActorNow> does stuff. <ActorNow> passes to <ActorNext>
- List of objects added/modified with current states
Yes, I would like to run. I have Role Gate account, but haven't used it much. Setting up Character Sheets there is a hassle.Though, once done is practical. I haven't used Discord for PbP before, but open to the idea.
Discord is better for live chat, not so much for play-by-post. If you want to schedule regular times for everyone to play, it'll work just fine. That wouldn't be for me, though.
That I think could be harder. I'm in Europe so I'm usually in the wrong time zone to make that work.
I'm voting for play by post, as well.
These forums don't have any notification system, sadly. However, if you use a google sheet for reference, you can easily make that send out emails after each turn.