How I do Play By Post (PbP)

yochaigal · December 6, 2024, 3:32pm

I recently did a write-up on how I have done Play By Post for the past five years or so. Folks here have asked for it, so here it is:

Christo · December 6, 2024, 5:32pm

Thanks! I’ll give it a read.

SamB · December 10, 2024, 7:47pm

Interesting read!

I’m wondering if you could elaborate on a bit on rules. My gut tells me that PbB would probably be more successful with lighter set of rules. You already highlighted the usefulness of procedures. So I guess rulesets that are procedure heavy or have a clear loop would work better. Any other recommendations as much have or must avoid in PbB?

yochaigal · December 11, 2024, 2:19pm

I’ve run PbP with mostly rules-lite systems, though I did play in a Dungeon World PbP game that was just fine. And Cairn 2e has some pretty serious wilderness/dungeon crawl procedures that I really rely on in PbPs and in fact made the game work much better!

Procedures are good, actually.

tonytranrpg · December 11, 2024, 9:56pm

Great advice/post!

I like the sub-categories channels. Currently hosting multiple games in the one server, so I’ll need to re-jig.

I’ll be testing threads as sub category for Locations, People, etc.
Though you cannot sort them, stacking by creation date first.