Of the Clan MacLeod
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Wanting to start a play-by-post (probably ) game.

Looking for:
- Interested players
- Any suggestions about what might work better as forum than Discord (I want to avoid it, but it looks so perfect 😭)

I should probably create an elevator pitch for it... Watch this space.

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Of the Clan MacLeod

Are chat.chinwag.im/?chat and rooms.chinwag.im/ basically two different windows to the same back-end?

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Of the Clan MacLeod

As promised, my elevator pitch: shayne.powerlot.net/2021/09/no

/cc @mgrondin @Capheind @paladin1 @bignose

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Marc Grondin
@uxintro I'm intrigued...but not sure i actually have time to dedicate to this.
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Of the Clan MacLeod

@mgrondin That's my problem and why I think PBP is a potential solution. I'm thinking posts most days (ideally daily, but this is the real world) but no more than 5-10 minutes worth of work every day.

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Marc Grondin
@uxintro Well that sounds reasonable. Keep me in the loop for sure. Discord would not be great...XMPP might limit player base too much? Or does it lack things you envision needing for this? Like bots of some sort...
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Capheind Reloaded

@uxintro Im interested depending on the platform. Ive been trying to get a PBM or PBeM going for ages.

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Paul

@uxintro
Also possibly interested, though I'm not on discord and don't care to be.

Would be happy to know what kind of setting you were thinking about.

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bignose

@uxintro One good solution for group voice discussion, is Big Blue Button bigbluebutton.org/

Designed for school classes, so ideal for self-hosting. Easily applicable for a roleplaying game session.

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Mike, First of His Name

@uxintro they're different web-based chat clients for XMPP services. You can log into pretty much any XMPP account with the Movim instance I think, I don't think it's locked down.

See also talk.chinwag.im for what I think the future primary one looks like.

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Of the Clan MacLeod

@mike Nice. I think with those choices of interface I can live without Discord.

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Mike, First of His Name

@uxintro I'm down for helping with anything that prevents the use of Discord.

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Capheind Reloaded

@uxintro @mgrondin @paladin1 @bignose

That sounds cool. Have to dig up my jabber client.

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Marc Grondin
Part of my hesitation is I've never even played DnD so I don't even know where to start to make a character or anything. I don't even know if I posses enough imagination to do something like this.

That said I would really like to participate.





@Capheind @uxintro @paladin1 @bignose
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Of the Clan MacLeod

@mgrondin I'm more than happy to hand-hold as much as necessary. The system I'm using (Risus) is really about describing things more that quantifying them which (I think) makes it a lot easier. Imagine a character (or a blend of characters) from a fantasy (or potentially SF) book or movie or TV show that you'd like to create and we can take it from there.

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Marc Grondin
@uxintro Alright thanks for that. I'll look it up more and be in touch. Do you have a time frame? I would hate to hold things up... I may draw some inspiration from the world of KIN(The game) and Non-Player Character(the book) Since I'm reading the book...
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Of the Clan MacLeod

@mgrondin No time pressure at this stage.

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Of the Clan MacLeod

@Capheind When you do, we've started some session-0 type chat pbp-general@rooms.chinwag.im?j

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Capheind Reloaded

@uxintro Ok. Im fiddling around with servers.

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Paul

@uxintro I'm in.

I just read over the Risus core rules, so I'm obviously new to this system. (Prior experience in 2nd ed. D&D and V:tM.) I may have questions about how you want to handle the rules system as we go along, just so I know what's possible/feasible.

Do you care about what settings/environments we draw from, or a particular place our characters should start at (other than "in the dungeon")?

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