Arminius
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Are there any systems that are particularly well-suited to forum or postal play? Note, I’m thinking of fairly traditional forms of RPG, not epistolary games or whatever they call them where you pretend to be characters sending letters to each other. That said, a fair amount of newfangled narration-trading could be worth the offense to my traditional sensibilities, if it helped overcome the glacial turnaround cycle that seems to afflict PbP/PbF.
To jump-start discussion here are my notes from a few minutes’ research and noodling.
Spaces of the unknown (a version of Searchers of the Unknown)
Storium
Follow (Ben Robbins)
Overview article: http://abominablefancy.blogspot.com/2017/03/reviewing-rules-for-play-by-post.html?m=1 Favors:
Warriors Adventure Game (link to website rotted but might be retrievable)
The Pool
CORPS (so also EABA?)
Risus?
Story Engine
Primetime Adventures?
Mythic (my own suggestion, and the only game on the list I know at all well).
I saw a lot of recommendations for *World games but (a) that seems to happen no matter what you ask about, and (b) I’m not too crazy about the system, although I may be persuadable.
It occurs to me that Heroquest could be a possibility but I didn’t take to the 1e rules.
The Solar System/TSoY also might fit but it may have too much back-and-forth in resolution.
T&T (purely because it’s supposed to be so fast)
To jump-start discussion here are my notes from a few minutes’ research and noodling.
Spaces of the unknown (a version of Searchers of the Unknown)
Storium
Follow (Ben Robbins)
Overview article: http://abominablefancy.blogspot.com/2017/03/reviewing-rules-for-play-by-post.html?m=1 Favors:
- Into the odd
- The Black Hack
- Maze Rats
Warriors Adventure Game (link to website rotted but might be retrievable)
The Pool
CORPS (so also EABA?)
Risus?
Story Engine
Primetime Adventures?
Mythic (my own suggestion, and the only game on the list I know at all well).
I saw a lot of recommendations for *World games but (a) that seems to happen no matter what you ask about, and (b) I’m not too crazy about the system, although I may be persuadable.
It occurs to me that Heroquest could be a possibility but I didn’t take to the 1e rules.
The Solar System/TSoY also might fit but it may have too much back-and-forth in resolution.
T&T (purely because it’s supposed to be so fast)
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