As an aside...

Not sure if this is up anyone's alley, but I run a gaming forum for pbp RPG and I'm trying to get an old idea going again and wanted to invite you all to participate. I'm looking for interest in a Open World Fantasy RPG run through play by post. When I say Open World I mean that the world is being created as players participate. It uses the Window system which is rather open ended, making it rather nice for use in play by post but still allowing quite a bit of leeway. There's a wiki started here. With the forum aspect linked there or you can go straight there from here

Cool. I'll take a look at this later today. At the very least, I'm curious.

I've been playing play by post games for years but I worn out. Too many players disappearing, and too difficult to keep being available in the long run. If you don't post for a time, it slows the game, which in turn make people loose interest, so they forget to post... That's why I am now playing on roll20, to be able to plan a game in my agenda , the same as a regular game around a table. So far, my experience with this game is very good, I just wish our schedules could allow for longer sessions :) Though, I would be interested in a part-forum part-interactive sessions of a like project.

Jarod said: Though, I would be interested in a part-forum part-interactive sessions of a like project. I actually used to run what I dubbed a Hybrid game where I would hold the weekly session, but during the week would continue the game through a forum.

If I may, I, too, understand the plight of play-by-posting. The biggest strength (access to jillions of players all over the world) is also its biggest weakness (access to jillions of players instead of just your close buds) in a sense. For that reason, I've found myself more involved with solo games just because coordination is so much easier. I had a great game running before Christmas and, after the break, the restart just flopped. No one's fault, it just seems to happen like that. The Internet is a big place and full of shiny distracting things. Regarding Kalium though - I can't say that I can -play- with ya'll but I'm more than willing to help with plot hooks and encounters and such. Less of a GM, more of a semi-automated random generation system. I, too, fall prey to shiny distracting things far too easily to put you through having me in your party. :) -BW

I've always appreciated pbp as an venue to really write and explore character dynamics, which can be hard during faster paced games. They also tend to be nice for people who have busier schedules and can't play in as many weekly games as they'd like.

I've never been in a pbp like that. Which means I'm certainly willing to try.