Post by Dickon Sowerby on Oct 7, 2007 13:41:13 GMT -5
Taken from Wikipedia:
A forum RP, also known as a play-by-post game, is an online text-based role-playing game which is played in a turn-based manner.
Play-by-Post games are usually written in the third person perspective. This allows the players and gamemasters to write in the personas of their characters. This is the best way to separate the player character from the person playing the character:
The man walked up to his friend and greeted him politely.
"How are you?" he asked.
((OOC: This is an example of out of character talk))
The first message posted onto a thread of that nature is usually one person laying down the scenario, starting a story about their character and inviting others. If successful, the thread then becomes an ongoing story in which players periodically advance the plot by reading the latest reply and then typing a short paragraph or two about what their character does and how the environment changes in response. These replies are often open-ended so that other players can continue.
Depending on the rules established on the forum, roleplaying and story can be pushed forward through moderation by a gamemaster, specific rules (often existing role-playing game systems), or by mutual agreement between players. Any combat is usually written in entirety by one or more players; and in some systems will be allowed to include the actions of another player in their post. Commonly this practice is considered cheating in more established play-by-post games, where players are responsible for their own characters. Any form of this cheating (automatic hits and controlling another player's character) is commonly referred to as "god-moding".
Internet forums are the most common medium for Play-by-Post gaming. This particular forum RP uses free-hand and there is the absence of dice and chance. Thanks to online forums, players can easily keep track of all aspects of the game, can see what is happening elsewhere and can re-read anything they have previously written.
A forum RP, also known as a play-by-post game, is an online text-based role-playing game which is played in a turn-based manner.
Play-by-Post games are usually written in the third person perspective. This allows the players and gamemasters to write in the personas of their characters. This is the best way to separate the player character from the person playing the character:
The man walked up to his friend and greeted him politely.
"How are you?" he asked.
((OOC: This is an example of out of character talk))
The first message posted onto a thread of that nature is usually one person laying down the scenario, starting a story about their character and inviting others. If successful, the thread then becomes an ongoing story in which players periodically advance the plot by reading the latest reply and then typing a short paragraph or two about what their character does and how the environment changes in response. These replies are often open-ended so that other players can continue.
Depending on the rules established on the forum, roleplaying and story can be pushed forward through moderation by a gamemaster, specific rules (often existing role-playing game systems), or by mutual agreement between players. Any combat is usually written in entirety by one or more players; and in some systems will be allowed to include the actions of another player in their post. Commonly this practice is considered cheating in more established play-by-post games, where players are responsible for their own characters. Any form of this cheating (automatic hits and controlling another player's character) is commonly referred to as "god-moding".
Internet forums are the most common medium for Play-by-Post gaming. This particular forum RP uses free-hand and there is the absence of dice and chance. Thanks to online forums, players can easily keep track of all aspects of the game, can see what is happening elsewhere and can re-read anything they have previously written.