Avoid going stale
I’ve just been looking around some websites of play-by-post games that I know, for the purpose of asking someone some questions for an article for this blog, and what I noticed is that sometimes the website haven’t been updated for a very long time, and in some cases they haven’t even been updated this year.
So I just shrug my shoulders and think “well, play-by-post games are sometimes slow, they probably do have an active community over email or something. I know what, I’ll check their Facebook and Twitter pages.” So I do that, expecting to see regular updates, even if it’s just general chitchat.
Nothing.
A cold shiver runs down my spine. “What if everyone’s dead” I start to think about the possibility of a serial killer picking off roleplayers one at a time until there’s nobody left, leaving our websites going stale, and our Facebook pages like ghost towns.
When I first started creating the 
Central to any roleplaying experience is designing a character to play. Essentially, in play-by-email groups there are two main types of roleplaying: roleplaying with games mechanics, or roleplaying without game mechanics (known as ‘freeform’ style). But irrespective of if you have to build your character to rules, or simply so that she fits in the world, it’s important to know a bit about making a character that’s fun for you and everyone who plays with you.
