PINS: PBP STARTUP INSTRUCTIONS FOR GMS, COMMUNITY STANDARDS, BB CODES, SUGGESTIONS, FORUM/WEBSITE ISSUES

[Michelle (Michelle Nephew)]

Welcome to the Atlas Game Play by Post forums! We provide this space as a service to our fans, to help enhance your enjoyment of our games. Have fun!

PbP Startup Instructions for GMs

SETUP To set up your own Play by Post game on the Atlas Games Forums, follow these directions ... Post a call for players on the "Recruitment: GMs Looking for Players" forum, following the format given in the instructions posted there. Send an email to "forum AT atlas-games DOT com" requesting that a new forum be opened up for your game (don't forget the dash in the middle). The email should include your username as GM, the Atlas Games system you're using, the title of your campaign, and …

Community Standards

Community standards apply to all Play by Post games hosted on the Atlas Games Forums. For a reminder of those standards, see https://forum.atlas-games.com/t/registration-agreement-terms/1595/1 In general, possibly offensive material may be "mentioned" briefly, but should not be dwelt upon. Nor should a game be based purely on such. For example, torture was a reality of the Middle Ages, but Ars Magica is not a game "about" torture, and the sagas should not be either.

BB Codes For Better Games

Our forum is equipped with both basic and custom BB codes to enhance your Play by Post experience. Basic codes include bolding, italics, underlining, quoting, code tags, lists, images, urls, and font sizes and colors. Our custom codes add horizontal rules, text alignment (center, left, right), spoiler and strikethrough tags for secrecy, subscript and superscript, tabs, and tables. Either use the buttons at the top of the post form (hover for info), or type in the code using SQUARE brackets ins…

Submit Your Play-Improvement Suggestions

If you look at the Instructions for GMs post and Read This Before You Start a Thread! post, you can see that I've put together a lot of suggestions for improving your play-by-post game. I'm always looking for more, though! If you have one you'd like to see added to those documents, please post it here to let me know. Thanks!

Forum Help Email Address

Having problems with the forum? Please send an email to this address: forum AT atlas-games DOT com (Don't forget the dash in the middle!) If it's a more general issue with our website, contact our webmaster at: webmaster AT atlas-games DOT com