Toric
Legendary Pubber
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2019
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EDIT: Star Frontiers has been chosen. I have three confirmed players at this point. If anyone else is interested in Star Frontiers, I'll take up to two more players or so.
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So I recently decided to change up some bookshelf contents and I now have most of my old boxed set games in said shelf and out of storage from the basement. Given that in-person gaming has pretty much dried up due to virus concerns and doesn't appear to be on the table (no pun intended) for awhile still, I'm looking to run a PbP game of one of these old games. Additionally, even when gaming in-person, my time is limited to about once every other week, and I have way too many games for many of them to ever see any action. Starting up a new PbP of a game I hardly ever get to play or haven't played in years seems like a good idea.
My plan, unorthodox as it is, is to post a picture of my shelf and let anyone here interested in joining a PbP game pick 1-5 games that they'd be interested in playing. Maybe rank them from 1st to 3rd or 1st to 5th or however many you choose as possibilities. I'd only ask that anyone actually interested in playing a PbP game reply as I know the PbP crowd here is relatively small in relation to the population of the Pub and I don't want everyone just voting for favorite games but not have actual interest in playing in a PbP game.
I'll wait a few days to a week for votes, discussion, etc. and then tally up games with the most votes and make a decision from there. I don't guarantee anything! If there is no clear favorite, I'll just have to choose one. If one gets a lot of votes but after really looking at it I decide it won't work well in PbP, I might have to default to a second or third choice.
I'm looking at this as something akin to a group of friends coming over and pulling a couple games off my shelf and asking me to run one of them. It gives anyone and everyone interested in joining a PbP game a voice in picking the game. It might backfire spectacularly if say six people reply and all ask for different games! But that's okay.
It just so happens that I believe I have time to actually start TWO PbP games using this method of selection. So once I get one off the ground, I might run a second as well.
Anyone voting for a game can feel free to throw in requests for a particular theme of the game in question, the sort of style they'd like the game to be. And since I am trying to settle on a game to run by group consensus, I haven't made any decisions on what sort of adventure will be run or any style of game in particular. For many of these games, I have supplemental material (not pictured) including adventures and such. I reserve the right to run a published adventure or something of my own creation at my discretion.
I would be looking for a posting rate of 2 or 3 per week. Not too slow, not ridiculously fast. Right in the middle, fast enough to keep it moving, not too fast so people can't keep up.
This is by no means my entire game collection. But I am only considering running the games that are pictured here. I have removed a few games that are already being run here at the Pub as I don't necessarily want to double up. That said, I think there is still one game pictured that is being run here currently.
Without further ado, here is the shelf of games in question:
And three others that aren't on the shelf but will be shortly as they are on the way to me:
Yeah, these are mostly boxed sets. What can I say, I love 'em!
So any interest? And if not, that's okay too. I'm well-aware this might be a dumb idea that just doesn't work because it is too broad. I have seen people do a poll for a few different games or adventures to run PbP but never seen anyone open up a shelf of games.
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So I recently decided to change up some bookshelf contents and I now have most of my old boxed set games in said shelf and out of storage from the basement. Given that in-person gaming has pretty much dried up due to virus concerns and doesn't appear to be on the table (no pun intended) for awhile still, I'm looking to run a PbP game of one of these old games. Additionally, even when gaming in-person, my time is limited to about once every other week, and I have way too many games for many of them to ever see any action. Starting up a new PbP of a game I hardly ever get to play or haven't played in years seems like a good idea.
My plan, unorthodox as it is, is to post a picture of my shelf and let anyone here interested in joining a PbP game pick 1-5 games that they'd be interested in playing. Maybe rank them from 1st to 3rd or 1st to 5th or however many you choose as possibilities. I'd only ask that anyone actually interested in playing a PbP game reply as I know the PbP crowd here is relatively small in relation to the population of the Pub and I don't want everyone just voting for favorite games but not have actual interest in playing in a PbP game.
I'll wait a few days to a week for votes, discussion, etc. and then tally up games with the most votes and make a decision from there. I don't guarantee anything! If there is no clear favorite, I'll just have to choose one. If one gets a lot of votes but after really looking at it I decide it won't work well in PbP, I might have to default to a second or third choice.
I'm looking at this as something akin to a group of friends coming over and pulling a couple games off my shelf and asking me to run one of them. It gives anyone and everyone interested in joining a PbP game a voice in picking the game. It might backfire spectacularly if say six people reply and all ask for different games! But that's okay.
It just so happens that I believe I have time to actually start TWO PbP games using this method of selection. So once I get one off the ground, I might run a second as well.
Anyone voting for a game can feel free to throw in requests for a particular theme of the game in question, the sort of style they'd like the game to be. And since I am trying to settle on a game to run by group consensus, I haven't made any decisions on what sort of adventure will be run or any style of game in particular. For many of these games, I have supplemental material (not pictured) including adventures and such. I reserve the right to run a published adventure or something of my own creation at my discretion.
I would be looking for a posting rate of 2 or 3 per week. Not too slow, not ridiculously fast. Right in the middle, fast enough to keep it moving, not too fast so people can't keep up.
This is by no means my entire game collection. But I am only considering running the games that are pictured here. I have removed a few games that are already being run here at the Pub as I don't necessarily want to double up. That said, I think there is still one game pictured that is being run here currently.
Without further ado, here is the shelf of games in question:
And three others that aren't on the shelf but will be shortly as they are on the way to me:
Yeah, these are mostly boxed sets. What can I say, I love 'em!
So any interest? And if not, that's okay too. I'm well-aware this might be a dumb idea that just doesn't work because it is too broad. I have seen people do a poll for a few different games or adventures to run PbP but never seen anyone open up a shelf of games.
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