Everywhere I've looked people only want to run asynchronous play-by-post. Games advertised as live text get a dearth of responses compared to PbP and voice. Players even feel entitled to tell you they've lost interest because it's not one of those formats.Was there some revolution I slept on? Years ago you used to be able to find something. Now an entire summer went by without a single game showing up. God damn it feels like this whole hobby died out of nowhere.
Do you have examples of these games? I’m interested
>>96798399pretty sure OP means people get online at the same time and text it out.in other words... a discord rp
>>96798379Live text games have always been a minority. People really love their beer and pretzels voice slop.But games are down all around these days.
>>96798379I still run text games, but my online game group evolved out of IRC players years ago, back during the Adeptus Evangelion days. I'm running a text game on discord on Sundays. I think the problem is that the sort of people who play games in this way are not only rarer, but gated communities like discords are naturally where we ended up because thats just the platform that makes sense for us, which isn't exactly easy for a rando to just kind of waltz their way in to.
>>96798399>examplesYou write it out and actually think about your character's actions. It's pretty simple.>>96798410>discord rpDiscord LFGs are chock full of ads for play by post. You'd think they'd be all for live sessions but they hate it the most.>>96798439It was always the minority but it's gone from 10% of games to 0%, and play-by-post went from 0 to 90 fast. Voicetards were always a problem but now it feels like PbP hovered up the crowd that would've existed for live.
>>96798439Holy shit original Patchouli
Depends on the system, but they still exist in Discord for example. The problem with discord is that is active but the quality of RP is abysmal. Filled with dumb zoomer who don't know how to do it and retarded older people who don't care about teaching or enforcing some standards on them.
>>96798464Even when you try to recruit players for live sessions nobody shows up anymore. >>96798488>Depends on the systemWhich ones don't feel like panhandling for a single player to respond to your ad?
>>96798503>Even when you try to recruit players for live sessions nobody shows up anymore.Nah they swarm like locusts.
>>96798536Are you confusing PbP for live sessions like I've seen some people do? Because my own games, and people I've seen trying to recruit for live, got nothing.
>>96798543I'm not confusing them. Where are you trying to recruit?
>>96798550Various discords for lfgs, the same places I've seen PbP and Voice games get dozens of responses. Where are you pulling from?
>>96798584The actual game community discord.
I mean, I guess I’d be interested in it. Long as it doesn’t get too weird.
>>96798591>The actual game community discord.As in per system? Because I literally never see text games advertised there.
>>96798634Obviously not. I'm talking about when you're recruiting for one.
>>96798379I've been running text games for a decade on roll20 and then foundry. Highly recommend!
>>96799739Roll20 has absolutely no listings for text only anymore.
>>96799758Oh, I never advertised there, just used the platform. I coordinated out of session through a discord I made for anons from /mlp/
>>96798503DnD is the most popular system so there will always be retards willing to respond to anything no matter how shit it is.However, systems focused on social aspects like WoD are better for this because it allows to actually focus on the social part of post-by-post RP instead of crunch bullshit. CoC is another one that can help you.
Also, I wonder why can't we just play shit on /tg/? I mean, what's the purpose of this whole fucking board if not to play fucking TRPGs? It should be fairly easy to set up a GM and players.
>>96799764Then why did you bother posting...?
>>96799768I'm still left without any idea of where to find these people. I've seen listings for those systems end up barren because they were live text. >>96798640What do you actually mean when you say the actual game community discord?
Our discord group has three pure text games and two games with OOC voice and IC text. A fourth text game is in the preparation stage.But it's a community that's formed by pure luck and it's gated, we're not inviting randoms.I assume that's the case for other groups.
>>96798379Reminds me of years ago, when I stumbled upon a text-based online (mmo)rpg. Legit the only thing you had to orient yourself was a "map" made out of basic letters and symbols and you had to type stuff like "Head north", "Head south", etc. at minimum to move around in the first place and each area gave you basic description of what's there. I wandered for a bit this way and then stumbled upon a real other player. The guy wrote entire novel-tier paragraphs and it somehow ended up with him showing me the path to his organization's secret hideout, where I was surprised that I could keep up at all, because it was legitimately following the descriptions in the flow text on the side, through streets, alleyways, up and down stairs until you end up in front what was described like just any other random wall. And when he wrote doing some very specific stuff, the wall opened up into another path. That part was legitimately kinda cool, but the whole thing really wasn't for me.
>>96799783isnt that just quest and cyoa?
>>96798379Basically everyone who does play-by-text became friends and don't need to advertise. The games exist, they're just not needing new players for the most part. PbP games die every other week and voice games grate on people so they split up eventually. With a text-based game, there's a certain level of quality required by all participants.For example, my group has been going on for 10 years strong.
>>96800095>OOC voiceSo voice is necessary.>>96800280Games that have no active community to access are effectively dead for anyone else.
>>96800199What RPGs do quest play?
>>96800280Meanwhile I'm 10 years strong without a group. Would you say I've put enough effort into trying tabletop and it's time to call it quits?
>>96800540>necessaryDunno, I don't play in those specific groups, only watched as a spectator once or twice. There was one player whom I didn't hear but saw typing.
>>96800566>those specific groupsBut wasn't it only one group?
>>96800557I would say you've put in no effort. The hard part is keeping a group through schedules and life. Finding a group is easy. Starting one is easier. All you need to do is prune the people you hate or cultivate the people who you like into better roleplayers.>>96800540You live, don't you? Games didn't have "active communities" before the internet, yet still got played. Games rarely had "active communities" unless they were the big dogs before Discord and covid. Make your own group, retard.
>>96800571Sorry, let me clarify.The server was made for a group of 4chan anons for another reason, but once one member proposed running a game, it spread and now within that group there are multiple games ran by different GMs. And it so happens that each of them shares at least one player with another so it's all somewhat connected which is why I described it as a one group.But the specific campaigns are run differently and with different subsets of players. The ones I play in are all text based, so I don't know exactly how much voice is needed for the other subgroups.
>>96800647>Finding a group is easyAre you just pretending to be retarded or did you learn that from being in a steady group for a decade?Everyone else who would've been in a group is already in one. You didn't even read the post I replied to.
>>96798379The problem with text games is that the speed is atrocious. Even a basic two floor dungeon takes weeks to go through, compared to an afternoon at a table, max.
>>96800771So the "solution" is to join random 4chan discords completely unrelated to /tg/ and hope someone feels like running someday?
>>96800788Live text games only take roughly twice as long as voiced games, having done both. You sound like you've only experienced play by post.
>>96800546I have no clue
>>96800775Who's pretending? My point is "Everyone else who would've been in a group is already in one" is a defeatist fallacy. There are new players. There are veteran players who have lost groups due to scheduling. Fat nerds get sick and die. Life happens, so there will always be people looking.
>>96800840>Who's pretending? You're the one that wrote this post, not me >>96800280It matches up with my experience. >There are new players. There are veteran players who have lost groups due to scheduling.There are demonstrably not when it comes to live text games. You can have ads up on multiple servers and have non-existent interest because the format turns everyone off.
>>96798379>Way of play mostly associated with IRC and chatrooms>In 2012+13Nigga, were you hibernated for past decade or something?
>>96800790I do recognise how lucky I got.
>>96800880Ads don't work. Engagement does.I've had ads up for my IRL game before and a month passed by with zero takers. Meanwhile me mentioning the game, despite the ads up on the local discord, as well as physical ads in the FLGS in plain sight were not seen. People don't seek things out, you have to bring it to them. A lot of the time this means you have to be the GM.And yes, I know you specified "live text games", the same applies. I've seen two ads for live text games in the circles I frequent in the past month. You just need to look and keep your ear to the ground, it might take time and effort.
>>96800948Hey retard, are you or are you not the guy I was replying to? Why did you jump in as if you knew anything about the culture of live text game groups? There are so few players left you need to coddle the few that still exist and are available.
>>96800908Thanks for recognizing that. From your spelling I'm already fucked, it seems I should've been a brit to boot.
>>96800898Heaven forbid someone be interested in roleplay instead of beer & pretzels.
>>96799811>I'm still left without any idea of where to find these people.For Discord, use Disboard.https://disboard.org/Use tags. RP is an obvious one, but if you have a specific idea in mind like vtm or wod, you can use that. Read the descriptions, join and forage the style of play and see if you like the ambient. Like I said discords are pretty active, the problem are the retarded summers. A tag for purely RPG text-RPG is westmarch or westmarches. You can also try searching directly for active forums who RP this, these are harder to find but they exist and there are still people posting in them. Especially if they're related to anime, vampires or urban fantasy. I will post the ones I know but they aren't in English.There are 100% people still invested in playing by text, they're just hard to find. Check their webrings and don't leave everything to google
>>96800647why would you enter in a thread about finding online communities to RP to brag about your shitty clique of homosexuals closed to other people? do you need the attention your mother never gave you or something?
>>96801396I can see why you're nogames
>>96801410don't enter a thread you don't care about disruptive moron
>>96798379I will take this thread as a sign that I have to make amends.
>>96801493Nah. You just need to go where the people are (unfortunately Discord). /tg/ used to have gamefinder threads all the time, but then faggots like >>96801410 and >>96801453 showed up to shit on everything.What >>96801376 said is about right. Find Discord servers with your interests and poke around there.
>>96798379You are going to have to come to terms with the fact that your specific preference isn't very common, so if you want to organize a game with multiple other people, you're going to have to compromise on it>b-b-but my tastes are objectively superiorTry talking to yourself then, something about this thread tells me that you're used to it
>>96801376>use DisboardThere are nicer ways to tell anon to kill himself.
>All these socially inept autists too afraid to speak to other peopleThis hobby is not for you.
>>96798379The people you used to play with in real time were 15 years old. They grew up and have jobs now.
>>96800788my play by post games get way more shit done in the same time as my voice games
>>96801187faggot
>>96801187... and that statement relates to the post you are replying to... how, exactly?
>>96801187Also, if you want roleplay, then chat-posting is the lousiest way to get that, go for actual PBP, baiter... oh, right, you don't play and you don't care
