Play By Forum RPG
Posted: June 3rd, 2007, 23:29
Just had a thought, not really fleshed it out as an thought, but thought I would see what you guys thought about it, I thought.
anyway....
As the recent venture into old school bearding went quite well, with the SLA stuff, I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in some kind of play by email style game, only using the forum instead of emails. Would be slower than playing over teamspack, obviously, but would mean that we dont have to get everyone together at a specific time for several hours. I have attempted such things in the past with mates (albiet on a one to one basis over emails) and as long as the DM sets it up right it works reasonably well.
Anyway, I was quite fancying DMing a Shadowrun game, and thought this would be a good way to do it without it getting in the way of future SLA game playing. Not thought it through much further than that, but I could put together a simple mission (similar in complexity to the SLA one we did) to test it out, if people are interested. I also have electronical versions of all the current Shadowrun rulebooks, which I could leave somewhere on the floor, im sure.
In case you dont know what Shadowrun is, setting wise: its basically cyberpunk meets D&D. Everything you can find in either of those settings is in Shadowrun, as well as some other stuff. You may meet elves and dwarfs and magic, but the elf may have a robotic arm, the dwarf may specialise in heavy machine guns, and the magic may be being hurled at you by a guy in an expensive suit. Theres lots of corporate backstabbing and nastyness. Also, its all rather amoral: you are not heroes, you are a bunch of mercanarys and criminals. Just to give you an idea of what it can be like, when we used to play it my mate had his character fitted with a powerfull explosive device in his head, rigged to detonate if he died. This was to encourage the rest of us to keep him alive when we were in the field with him. This kind of mutual trust is not uncommon.
Its a bit more complex than SLA, but makes up for that by giving a bit more depth to what you can do with your characters. And dont worry, I will hand-hold all the way through, as and when is needed, so all you will have to do is say "I want to shoot the bastard".
Anyone interested?
anyway....
As the recent venture into old school bearding went quite well, with the SLA stuff, I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in some kind of play by email style game, only using the forum instead of emails. Would be slower than playing over teamspack, obviously, but would mean that we dont have to get everyone together at a specific time for several hours. I have attempted such things in the past with mates (albiet on a one to one basis over emails) and as long as the DM sets it up right it works reasonably well.
Anyway, I was quite fancying DMing a Shadowrun game, and thought this would be a good way to do it without it getting in the way of future SLA game playing. Not thought it through much further than that, but I could put together a simple mission (similar in complexity to the SLA one we did) to test it out, if people are interested. I also have electronical versions of all the current Shadowrun rulebooks, which I could leave somewhere on the floor, im sure.
In case you dont know what Shadowrun is, setting wise: its basically cyberpunk meets D&D. Everything you can find in either of those settings is in Shadowrun, as well as some other stuff. You may meet elves and dwarfs and magic, but the elf may have a robotic arm, the dwarf may specialise in heavy machine guns, and the magic may be being hurled at you by a guy in an expensive suit. Theres lots of corporate backstabbing and nastyness. Also, its all rather amoral: you are not heroes, you are a bunch of mercanarys and criminals. Just to give you an idea of what it can be like, when we used to play it my mate had his character fitted with a powerfull explosive device in his head, rigged to detonate if he died. This was to encourage the rest of us to keep him alive when we were in the field with him. This kind of mutual trust is not uncommon.
Its a bit more complex than SLA, but makes up for that by giving a bit more depth to what you can do with your characters. And dont worry, I will hand-hold all the way through, as and when is needed, so all you will have to do is say "I want to shoot the bastard".
Anyone interested?
