[gurps] PBEM

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:17 -0400, Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Susan Koziel
> <kataryna_dragonweaver at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I actually wouldn't x-nay the out of character dialogue unless it
> actually becomes a problem. You don't want to be to restrictive of
> your players... and the out of character stuff hasn't really been an
> issue in any PBEM or online stuff. It's a problem in my face to face
> gaming but not in my online.
> > -Sue
> 
> When I've done PBeM, I've set up two mailing lists -- one
> in-character, one out-of-character.  Seemed to work well.
> 
> Pat

You know, one thing I've read about people doing, but never tried
myself, is using a Wiki for PBEM.  Although, I suppose that would be
PBWIKI, heh.  Divide the Wiki into pages by scene to keep it manageable.

Then instead of round-by-round, it's a sort of collaborative fiction.
But role-playing is that anyway.

Such a format makes it easier for everyone to read back and see the
entire thing and problems such as top posting or misquoting parts of
previous messages go away.

You'd need someone with a few technical skills and a webhost with
scripting and DB support to set up a private Wiki and some user
accounts.  You wouldn't want it world-writable.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>