What do you guys think about a trek-rpg.net forum based game. It could include everyone that wants to play. We just need one or two narrator/co-narrators. Oh yea and a new forum topic that is just for the game. What do you guys think?
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What do you guys think about a trek-rpg.net forum based game. It could include everyone that wants to play. We just need one or two narrator/co-narrators. Oh yea and a new forum topic that is just for the game. What do you guys think?
I think it's a great idea, however the biggest problem with e-mail games is player dropout. When you invite everyone who has posted even a single time on these boards, you might end up with a few applicants who mysteriously vanish after introducing themselves. I can understand that people might become busy, but it really hurts a game when someone expects a reply from a player who is no longer responding.
Just my (annoying) 2 slips of latinum.
Acutally I ment that everyone can apply but only a certain amount can join. Anyway I like the idea.
It sounds like a good idea but then people would have to choose which system. Some people don't feel like spending more money after they have spent a couple of hundred on the book to switch over and do it again.
An ICON game and a CODA game. If there needs to be another forum off of the site I may be able to get one. We could have an ICON and CODA game
Actually, this play-via-forum idea is used extensively on the Spycraft forums run by AEG. <http://www.alderac.com/forum/index.php> The narrator (called Game Control, or just Control) starts the forum topics and the players post to the forum until the game goes to the next scene, in which the narrators opens a new topic.
There are four or five forum campaigns in progress right now.
The forum idea has it's ups and downs. It is a ready source of past posts. There is no need for using YahooGroups. On the flip side, I tend to prefer reading email vs reading the forum, mostly cause I can print out a specific email and take it with me away from the computer to read and reply to on the paper. Forum games limit that to a large degree.
Of course, it would take some approval from the forum owners as it will generate a large number of postings. But this forum already has that...
Dorin, player dropout takes place at the kitchen table as well as on pbems. The medium in which the game is played has no effect on that. As DM, I have suffered both. As a player, I've seen a GM drop-out before any players did. The players either want to play in the campaign, or they don't. And until the campaign gets started, neither GM or player will know whether either will last the entire length.
Thierry, don't narrators have to choose now what game system they use and players either have or don't have it? Again, the medium in which the game is played, whether at the kitchen table or via the internet, has no effect on that.
Matt, if you do start a campaign, drop me a line. And I think "The Gaming Hub" is already the place to hold it.