Oct
17
The Ongoing Worlds website has a lot of features to help you manage the characters in your play-by-post game. This article will explain how you can customise the character list, and how the characters are grouped and displayed.
On the Characters page for your game, the characters will be arranged into groups. These groups can be edited by the GM.
Oct
12
Joining a game on Ongoing Worlds is easy, and the process has been made as easy as possible for the GM to quickly review your application process so that they can decide whether or not to allow you into their game.
Click on “All Games” to see a list of all available games.
Click ‘All Games’
You will be shown a list of all games, including a thumbnail photo for each, a description, and the titles of the two latest posts. You may find the game blackjack casino, it is an enjoyable game and even a newbie can play it, try it, you might get addicted to it! Look carefully at the dates of the latest posts, if they were posted a very long time ago, there’s a good possibility that this game has been abandoned. Also look at the number of players, it’s likely that you’ll want a game with more than a few players, but a high number of players might mean the game is very active.
Browse games for one you want to join
Select the game by clicking on the title link. You will now be taken to the game’s homepage, where you will see the full description, and a list of latest posts.
Oct
12
Update – There’s a much newer version of this article here, updated for 2014
Sometimes it can be difficult to get new members, especially if you’ve only just created your game. People won’t join your game if they don’t know about it, so you’ll have to promote it as much as you can. Here is some puzzle challenges for you to solve the puzzle games and you will love it.
There are many websites where you can fill in a form to advertise your PBEM/play by post game. Some of these will be websites dedicated to advertising role playing games, and some will be forums where members can play games, but have a separate thread for GMs to advertise their games. Dota 2 mmr boost service works in 2 ways. We either play on your account, or we party with you while you play on your account until we get you to your desired MMR. Both ways work just as well, so we’ll leave it up to you how you want to get things done!
I’ve collected a list of 10 websites where you can advertise your game.
This site allows you to create articles, questions or post a link about your PBEM game. You have to register to become a member, but after that you are trusted to contribute worthwhile content to the site.
Oct
6
The USS Babylon
In this article, I asked three experienced roleplayers to explain what they think it means to be a Game Master, and what they feel are the duties of a GM. I’ve included quotes from the following:
Clayton Martin – GM of Star Trek Babylon
SMAndy – GM of HMS Sovereign and Reapers Union
Andy Longman – Moderator of JMC Blue Dwarf
Oct
2
In my last article about taking inspiration for worldbuilding from films, I said it was best to have a look at some examples, demonstrated brilliantly on the big screen. Read More
Sep
26
Play by post games can be set in many different types of worlds, and can be based in existing worlds portrayed in films, TV programmes and books. SMAndy has created a play by post game based on Japanese Anime series “Bleach”. His play by post game is played using a proboards forum which you will find here. I asked SMAndy some questions about Reapers Union.
Reapers Union is based on the anime series "bleach". It's played using a forum
Sep
24
I’ve added two great new features to the Ongoing Worlds website this week, as well as fixing a few bugs that were causing problems.
This was something which was inspired by the Yahoo Groups page that I’ve been running my Blue Dwarf game on for over 10 years. A table allows you to see how many posts were submitted each month, and different years will appear on different rows underneath. It’s a great way to see at a glance how long a game has been running for, and how popular it’s been.
If you’re worried that a game might be too involved for you, and has hundreds of posts per month, then you’ll be able to see on this table. Or the opposite, if a game seems to be struggling with only a few posts per month and you want a faster paced experience, you’ll be able to tell by looking at this table.
The post summary, showing posts per month since the game started
This table will show on your game’s homepage, and will only show if you game has more than 20 posts.
Sep
23
If you’re creating a new brand new world for the setting of your roleplaying game it helps to look at some examples first, demonstrated on the big screen. Below are some worlds from films which might give you a good starting point when creating your own world. You might also want to look my other article about world ideas to use for the setting of your game.
In this world of Pirates and swashbuckling, the films follow the same characters but there’s actually a lot more going on in the world. There’s a crew of undead pirates, a crew of seamonsters, and toffee-nosed gentry from the East India Trading Company, as well as some voodoo magic for more of a supernatural element to the world.
It would be easy to take this world and use it for a roleplaying game. Your characters could be the crew of a Pirate ship, and you raid any ship that comes near whilst avoiding any ships that are hired to catch you. Or if you want to be more legitimate, you could be a simple trading ship which moves from port to port transporting cargo, and avoiding being raided by Pirates. Or you could take on jobs from port Sheriffs to track down and destroy all Pirate ships that are causing problems for other ships. As the world has supernatural elements like voodoo magic and curses, this could give your characters plenty of interesting and ludicrous things to do.
In the Terminator films we see snapshots of the grim future where robots have taken over, and in Terminator Salvation we see more of that world. The robots have huge flying ships, as well as human-like robots and many other weird contraptions.
Humans are farmed, and collected and kept in colonies. The Humans that have escaped work as freedom fighters, fighting against the robots.
Your characters could be the Human resistance, fighting against the robots. This world also has a lot of scope for time travel, as time travel is used by both the robots and the Humans to alter the course of the future. This means possible missions could be to travel back in time to before the robots took over (to our present, or further in the past), and try to stop the robots, or to prevent the robots from travelling back to the future and attempting to kill John Connor, or even your characters own parents.
Sep
10
Brianne is a member of the Vampire roleplaying game Reign of Blood
Hey all. So, I was asked to write a few columns about rpg sites and how they run so I figured I would give it a shot. When I first started the rpg I am on, I had no idea how anything worked or what a forum even was. But, I have now been a member for Reign of Blood for almost 2 years now.
I have gone through a few characters and I know the difficulties of creating a good, unique character name. It seems everyone has their own way of creating a character. In my personal opinion, I would rather see a character that is unique instead of one you stole from a book or a movie (Yes, I am talking about people like the Cullen Clones. These are people who try to play the Cullens from the Twilight Series. Well, we call them the Cullen Clones because they couldn’t be creative enough to come up with their own character). I used to spend hours trying to create a good character and now it only takes me about 20 minutes. It can be this quick for you as well.
Sep
7
If you’re a GM of a text-based roleplaying game, you will need to come up with decent story ideas for your players. This can be challenging because coming up with new ideas all the time is difficult, the professionals even struggle when making films, which is why you might see the same plot idea being used over and over again.
But don’t worry about copying someone else’s story idea, because as long as you’re playing it with different characters, it will be a totally different experience. In fact it can be a good idea to look at films as examples of good story ideas. Here is a collection of good scenarios from films that will make good story ideas in your roleplaying game
For: Sci-fi or fantasy games
It’s easy to start a story where an infinite number of aliens invade a planet, but it’s sometimes difficult to end it, just because there is an endless amount of aliens and only a few of your characters. You could start writing about killing some, but then it gets boring. You need a way to finish off all of the aliens for good. You could create a virus that kills them all, or you could wipe them out at the source.
In the film Aliens, a planet has been taken over by aliens before our main characters get there. The characters have to fight their way through hundreds of the beasties until Ripley meets the Queen, and kills it. In the film all of the other aliens are killed off by a massive nuclear explosion, and the main characters escape.
In your story however you might not want this kind of ending, for example if the aliens have invaded Earth, a massive nuclear explosion might cause more problems than it solves. So you’ll have to think of another way to get rid of all the aliens. It could be that they’re all being controlled by one source, the Queen, so if you kill the Queen, all others will drop dead (this is handy for robot monsters).
For: Sci-fi games
Your characters are given a plan to achieve a goal. Make sure all writers are informed of the plan, and likewise all characters are informed of the plan too.
The goal at the finale in Star Wars IV: A new hope was to fire a missile into a very small target on the humongous Death Star. This involved flying close to the Death star, dogfighting with enemy spaceships, getting into the trench, avoiding and shooting more enemy spaceships, and then one character will launch the missile when they’re close enough.
In your story the goal might be an enemy spaceship or spacestation that you have to destroy. Getting close to the spaceship will be difficult, as you first have to dogfight with some enemy fighters. There’s more for other characters to do here, by having them figure out a way to turn off the enemy spaceship’s protective shielding or defensive turrets before they can get close, which might involve getting aboard the base to sabotage it first.
