Anons, do you play PbP TTRPG games? What are your opinions about them? Can you recommend any?
>>96891359I used to play pbp on giantitp a long, long time ago. It's shit, and here's why">Games last two weeks>Full of the worst of the theatre kids>DMs flake>Players flake>You will inevitably flake>No one follows the game's rules>Everyone wants some ungodly homebrew shit>Even if the game continues, it slows to a single post per day maxI would not recommend.
Regular foundry sessions + Discord to coordinate/organize is peak
>>96891386What system was that?
Rolled 10 (1d12)>>96891359Can you BACK THE FUCK UP and ask if I play ANY games first, THEN delve into a specific "durr you play PbP games"?How FUCKING rude of you.*Rolls to fart**farts*Ok now how much did I win, OP?
>>96891359Yeah, they're fun
>>96891359My first one fell silent after a week or so. The second one, same dm but different players, seems to be steaming ahead nicely about one month in. It kind of scratches my itch to RP more without worrying about game pace and coming up with dialogue on the fly. We play on discord and pause when someone is sick or something. It takes some trust and conscious consideration to allow for narration between dm and player. We might sk in the ooc channel about lore before writing something sometimes.We use a simplistic system for character building with a lot of freedom. All rolls start as 2d10, adding and subtracting dice for a character being skillful at the task or in a (dis)advantageous situation. A 5-10 is a success. How many successes you have determines the outcome. You need more of them for difficult tasks, but 2 usually does it.We do very little combat and lots of dialogue, body language and non-combat actions which really sets it apart from my 5e game that's much more combat focussed. All in all its good stuff, bit probably not for everyone.
>>96891359I run live text games due to never finding a solid group for asynch. I use discord for everything, maybe a dice rolling bot, people keep their sheets in a google doc if there isn't a specialised bot. Ironsworn is great for text based games and has an excellent custom bot that will do everything you need. I have used Owlbear for battle maps but prefer to keep it to theatre of the mind, text games are already slow enough without combat on a grid. I've been doing some Daggerheart games of late since finding people for a niche play style is a crap shoot and since Daggerheart bungs on about being narrative first it's very easy for me to plain keep doing Ironsworn things.I've found players who I have run voice games for get much more invested in a text game due to the added layer of disconnect between themselves and the character. They can start writing a response and adapt it on the fly before posting, and can scroll up to reread and double check things they would otherwise ask verbally. Since it is text it is very easy for people to go and do other shit mid session, I have kicked people for being fuckwits who can't hide the fact they're playing a video game or who go "oh I'm at a family dinner but I can still play" ten minutes into a session, but hey every group and play style has room for people being idiots.
I feel like Apocalypse World is the only game that will work as an anonymous PbP Discord roleplay, if everyone involved isn't a fuckin fag and everyone leaves their notifications on so they actually reply to it. I don't mind a TTRPG where the PCs have sex with each other and it's gritty violence and very humanistic and narrative, like a drama with a whole web of relationships, that's cool. Although I wish that characters actually died instead of "oh no you actually can come back as another class" or whatever. It's fun as a rare thing but the result is that almost no one ever dies.
>>96895046>if everyone involved isn't a fuckin fag and everyone leaves their notifications on so they actually reply to it.This is a massive fucking problem even for a normal game. I don't expect the faggots to be best friends or something but fucking reply to pings, and hell if they're feeling spicy actually talk about what they wanna do before game day.
>>96891359I played Apocalypse World once, back in 2016.It was average - nothing bad, nothing good, just general meh.That's my entire contact with PbtA. Never met again anyone wh would suggest playing it. //tg/ obsessing about it like it's some sort of 3rd force in the TTRPG scene is one of the easiest tells that most people here don't play games at all and just fantasise about the hobby at large
>>96897580Well the idea with PbP is it's an ongoing game. Apocalypse World has set start-of-session and end-of-session mechanics, but you can just have those happen at natural chapter breaks in the story.I don't want the people involved to be best friends, the more I know about them the harder it is to do a group creative exercise.I find it hard to believe that people play AW IRL and do the sex mechanics. And I have a gf some platonic female friends and their partners and we talk about sex and shit all the time who cares, but if my character and my friends character have sex in front of her bf it's just gonna put out some weird vibes. I'm sorry but it just does. Anonymous online discord text RP removes that issue, and you can follow the flow of the story.
