I know I shouldn't...and if I did I should run Amber of Pendragon or Nobilis or something but...well, I'm trapped in a D&D only city at the moment, so...
I'm thinking of running a PbP game.
Any thoughts on good venues?
Please don't try to fill the game yet, I need time to come up with settings, stories, play rates and so on.
The only venues I'm familiar with are ENWorld.org's Play-by-Post subforums [enworld.org/forumdisplay.php?f=62] and RoleplayOnline [rpol.net/]. Both work just fine. Rpol.net provides a lot more options (groups, character-avatars, ability to send messages to specific members, a direct link to a character sheet...), but I find ENWorld to have a better, smoother interface and appearance.
I suspect recruiting for an Ars game would be easier at RPOL.net, although I'm not sure. ENWorld is large, and I myself had recruited two PbPs there. (You could always recruit here, on RPG.net, the Berklist and so on too.)
I'm afraid I won't e able to participate anyways. Too many other roleplaying (and other) obligations.
When I started one on RPOL.net, I got a ton of responses very quickly. I ended up with a larger group than I was expecting because of all the interest, but still had several players that had to be turned away.
KenK! You weren't abducted by aliens! Welcome back to the community, man!
It's almost worth running this just to give Eilonwy her shot. I hope you pitched her for the open call?
I've decided against an Ars PbP as SG for now. Each time I start writing it, I stop and go "Oh, darn. That bit is from Book X." where Book X is any of the books I'm NDA on.
So, I'll just do a Nobilis one instead, over on RPG.net.
Sorry to get up the hopes of anyone hanging out for a game.
Not abducted by aliens. I still lurk both here and on the Berkeley list. I got discouraged on the other list, both by the unwholesome tone of discourse and by my judgment that my deviant offerings were generally not useful to people.
I thought about writing up a magus or maga for the open call. But not Eilonwy. For all that I too remember her fondly, I don't know how to build her using canonical 5th edition rules, if only because I own none of the supplements. (IIRC, weren't the open call magi supposed to be created using the core rules?)
When I saw that you were thinking about running an AM5 game, I felt the stirrings of temptation, even though when it comes to PBEM games I ought to know better! If you change your mind yet again, let me know. I wouldn't run Eilonwy--she belonged to Tintagel. But there are other characters where she came from.