Opinions of a Play-By-Post game

[FourToedStatue]

Hey so I’ve had an idea and wondered what people thought of it. When I was around 14-18 I was involved in both playing and running play-by-post RPG type games on online forums and the other day I decided it was something I’d like to get back into so I’m wondering whether anyone here would be interested in such a thing?

It would be set in the Malifaux universe with players playing as original characters. The format would essentially be I post a scenario, the players respond, I respond, they respond etc. Essentially it would be like a pen and paper RPG a la D&D but without the dice etc. It’s much more informal. There’d be rules to stop people from playing God and being overpowered but a big part of it would be trust based and assume that everyone whose playing is playing because they want to see the story develop. From my experience people making themselves uber-powerful is a rare occurrence and other players/ the GM usually set them straight.

Anyway, what do people think? Let me know if you’d be interested and if you’ve any suggestions or whatnot.

Note: I know this isn’t writing per say, but it would essentially become an exercise in world/story building so it seemed that this was the best place for it!

[TheUnderFaux]

Sounds very interesting, I'd be up for this. New to RPGs but would like to see how the story develops in the Malifaux universe. Sign me up!

[tldanon]

I've been doing various pbps over the years as well and would love the opportunity to be in one as a player set in the Malifaux universe!

I'm actually working on putting together one to run as well!

[mephiston]

Here's a nice little starter guide to ForumRPGing on rpggeek.

http://rpggeek.com/thread/439727/play-by-forum-pbf-faq-reference