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Considering an email / forum-based PnP game (Supranerds Only Thread)

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Boro_Bandito:
I used to be in the really nerdy high school crowd that would set up these PbP fora that had a general idea for a plot and a system of character creation, but no hard rules or set narrative that everyone had to adhere to, essentially two people would decide "Hey, let's roleplay together for a bit" almost like an online version of playing house. The quality of writing in these was, less than subpar for the most part, and it always tapered off after a few months and we'd have to make another site and another setting and start it over again.

I think this problem was caused mostly by the fact that there just wasn't any agreed time for being on and things could go slowly, plus the lack of a rule system beyond "don't be a dick and play God," that I think would be solved pretty easily by just having a schedule and of course using the actual White Wolf rules n' shit. If we want I suppose we could just do it in a chatroom format on like meebo or something (I don't have IRC) for a more real time experience, and you could just copy/paste the results to a forum page or something.

I would even be fine with doing a real time Skype, like I get self-conscious as hell but I can suck it up if needs be.

KvP:
Nah I think White Wolf games and the style of play they demand lend themselves to maximum awkwardness. Like Steve says, you're not supposed to be putting distance between yourself and your character, you're supposed to be acting, which is a hard thing to pull off largely because it's so goddamn ridiculous. It's much, much easier to do that via text. It's like a collaborative novel.

KharBevNor:
Count me in. I have ALL the New World of Darkness books in PDF form from a rulebook binge I had a few months ago. I haven't done anything but skim-read except for the new Vampires book. I played Old World of Darkness Vampires for a while years ago but I barely remember anything except the very generalities of the rules. It looks like they've changed a lot of things in the setting anyway.

We could run things as a hybrid of play-by-post on a seperate forum and through chat medium. We could play on the forum until a crucial point (like an important conversation or an action scene) is reached and then PM everyone to set a time and a place. Then we meet up in IRC or a meebo room or something, enact that scene, post the logs on the forum. This would mean that rather having to set a regular time we could adapt things to the situation. Better to delay things a day or so and have everyone there than hold it every day at a certain time bang on the dot and be missing two people.

KvP:
That's... a pretty brilliant idea. Consider yourself recruited!

KharBevNor:
Also if this works we gotta run some Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green games.

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