  Wow, so I just accidentally posted the same keystrokes twice. Unfortunately, I think I earned experience for those. Anyhow, I had meant to express a thought. Finding an in-person game is a pain in my bum. Good lord, I've posted in a few spots and I have hope but the community seems so small at times. The kicker is I'm going to be kinda picky. I'm 25 years old with a wife and two on the way (GO ME! oh yeah, and her . . .) so I can't really go and play with everybody, now can I? However, the online side is fantastic! I'm still pretty new to play by post and play by chat, but I am very happy to be here. People are so accepting and just plain eager to play! I have already been invited to play in two worlds! I'm not claiming I'm that popular (I'm a right person who doesn't know his father-put it together for the PG-13 crowd) but that people just want to play!! I miss the taste of warmish Mountain Dew and coolish pizza, the smell of ozone from the still-running computer, and the grab-assery of playing in real time. I miss actually rolling dice and hearing my party-mates' reactions to a critical, their sighs of relief when I manage to raise that port cullis bare-handed, and their cries of agony when I take 7.62 round through my spleen rather than bandage there wounds. I miss the dirty looks I got when I single-handedly wiped my party with a miss-shot fireball. However, I love the taste of cold beer and coolish pizza, the sound of the television and my hard drive, the feel of tossing my cat off the keyboard. I like using a random number generator so I don't need to a) find and b) misplace my f-ing dice. And I can get plenty of feedback when I rock or suck. So in the end, I'm still gonna pine for a live game. However, I would pine for my new electronic homies without them. Thanks real-in-theory friends! Donikage PS, read my site XP as minus 10. Out!! Bookmark/Search this post with:
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I'm a few years older at 41
I'm a few years older at 41 but I share your thoughts. Online play with VTTs has been a game saver with me.
I play in a weekly C&C game and an off and on Warhammer 40k game using Fantasy Grounds and I'm currently trying
to get my old face to face group to game pen and paper online.
Oh, and same problem with the cat ;)
Best of luck,
Erik
Thanks chief! Glad to know
Thanks chief! Glad to know I'm not alone. By the way, can I take Tenkar as a former Tanker?
. . . which brings me to our next lesson, never bring a knife to a gunfight
I know exactly what you mean...
I've been actively participating in play-by-post gaming for about a year now, and I have to say that it can provide a satisfying substitute to actual gaming, which, in my case, it does frequently. I'm a college student and so are most of my gamer friends, so it can be hard for everyone to get together and play due to work/class schedules, projects, homework and the like. Don't even get me started about what happens over spring break, holiday break, summer vacation, etc. Unfortunately, that's the most likely time for a lot of the games that we run to die out.
Don't get me wrong, I miss the feel of actually getting together with people to play from time to time too. When I'm away from the Internet, though, I start to get a bit nostalgic for the forums I frequented there. It's usually easier to let my fellow gamers in PbP know that I'll be gone for a while with a few posts, so I (and they) can plan accordingly.
It's good to know that there's another fan of both types of gaming out there.
Just a suggestion
If you want to do online rp, via text that is, not graphic, try using Google Documents for the collaborative writing, and then a die roller siite such as Invisible Castle or Evil DM to do the dice rolling.
wouldn't that be more like play by post?
I've tried play by post and it really neads an exceptioanl GM / narrator to keep everyone coming back for more.
I go with Online
My prior jobs typically kept me busy and wiped at the end of the day, and made me keep my weekends busy as well. As much as I wanted to, I could not find a RPG group around that I could invest the travel time and consistant appearance for the games. So I looked to the internet for solutions.
I didn't have the patience for play-by-post forum RPGs, because while casual, the amount of writing needed for them boggled me at first, and for the most part (this may be attributed to bad experience) everyone playing were playing in their own bubbles. Character interaction was somewhat superficial. So I found one RPG that acts a bit like a VTT using IRC as the platform. Been a great experience for the last 3 years.
the promising waters of online play
The virtual table-top experience sounds like a worthy substitute, but I presume my alternating work schedule might prohibit even THAT.
I've been left with play-by-post as the last option, but when I look at forums of that nature, it seems as if people are just taking turns writing a story. Which isn't bad in of itself, but I want to simulate the table-top game experience as much as possible, which means die rolls and the like before roleplaying out the scene.
So are these play by post things just shared writing experiments or are there mechanics going on "behind the scenes"? My guess is both exist, but I can't really tell which is which.