Size and Optimization Friendliness of Play By post Sites

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:31 am

Hey gang; I'm wondering what people think about both the size and optimization friendliness of various online play by post sites; recognizing that these statements will be generalizations and that each site will have some in favour of optimization and some against it; overarching trends.

Myth Weavers
Tangled Web
RPol.net
DNDOnline Games
Brilliant Gameologists
Giant in the Playground
Anything I'm missing?

Thanks for the help!

A Man In Black · Post by **A Man In Black** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:46 am

Paizo's forums. Couldn't tell you a thing about them, though.

Saxony · Post by **Saxony** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:54 am

Brilliant Gameologists are more power optimizing friendly than giant in the playground.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:56 am

I have tried to use RPoL.net, but only with people who I already knew. The campaigns fell through because everyone was too busy.

Fuchs · Post by **Fuchs** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:07 am

RPOL is really diverse. They offer a lot of different games and playstyles. Though it's always a dice roll whether or not a game takles off, and for how long.

Shadow Balls · Post by **Shadow Balls** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:08 pm

Almost all of them are majority basket weavers. Some more than others. BG is perhaps the best off, but still has a surprising number of basket weavers.

Many of these are also downright hostile to non basket weavers, which causes problems in game.

Krusk · Post by **Krusk** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:54 pm

BG is your best bet. Just be prepared to have very hostile arguements if you decide to not allow something for literally any reason. Also be prepared to be expected to rule strongly in favor of the players in any unclear rules situation. (Even in some clear rules situations that the players don't understand)

Also WoTC has play by post. If you are looking for a 3.5 game it will fill within a day. Thanks to how starved that forum is for 3.5 games.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:22 pm

Krusk wrote:BG is your best bet. Just be prepared to have very hostile arguements if you decide to not allow something for literally any reason..

HAHAHAHA. Indeed. Though, in my experience, the dicks who whine about that sort of thing occasionally cross post here.

hogarth · Post by **hogarth** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:53 pm

Fuchs wrote:RPOL is really diverse. They offer a lot of different games and playstyles. Though it's always a dice roll whether or not a game takles off, and for how long.

That's about my experience. Most games don't think about optimizing much one way or another (that probably puts them in the anti-optimizing camp, I guess), and most don't get off the ground anyways.

I've tried Myth Weavers, DNDOnline Games, Giant in the Playground, WotC's message boards and Paizo's message boards for play-by-post games, but Paizo is the only place where I've managed to get games to last more than a couple of months (possibly because it takes less time and effort to run a party through an adventure path than to come up with a brilliant idea for a homebrew campaign).

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:13 pm

bg is probably the most optimization-friendly but they're all spergs over there and you had better run psionics and tob OR FUCKING ELSE