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Greetings Whitehackers!

Greetings Whitehackers! I hope everyone is doing well, and for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere enjoying the beginning of Summer. :)

Time has been a scarce commodity lately, and in turn my gaming has suffered as is I'm sure with some of you has well. To try and remedy this I've been exploring Play-by-Post and it seems like it could be a good alternative.

I've looked into a few PbP services and the best I've found so far is https://www.tavern-keeper.com/. Are any of you familiar with it, or have played in PbP games?

I'm going to be setting up a Whitehack / Yoon-Suin PbP on TavernKeeper soon, and if you are interested to participate please let me know. I already have one player, and will accept another 4 or so.

Cheers!
https://www.tavern-keeper.com/
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  1. Dean BakerJune 30, 2017 at 3:14 AM

    I'd like to join! I've done a lot of PbP over the years. I've used Mythweavers for the most part. Got burned out on it, but mainly because Mythweavers sucks when posting on mobile, something Tavern Keeper seems to support just fine. Interested in giving it a shot!

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  2. Barry O'LearyJune 30, 2017 at 3:17 AM

    I'd be interested. I'm running a game of Lords of Gossamer and Shadow using Roll20.net forums at the moment. I'd love to try out Yoon Suin in Whitehack.

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  3. Jacques van der MerweJune 30, 2017 at 3:55 AM

    You would be most welcome Dean Baker and Barry O'Leary!

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  4. Doug KilmerJune 30, 2017 at 3:59 AM

    I would also be interested. I did a game PbP years ago.

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  5. NickJune 30, 2017 at 4:45 AM

    I may be interested as well. Never used Tavern Keeper for PbP, but if the mobile interface is good that will go a long way towards keeping the post rate high.

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  6. Jacques van der MerweJune 30, 2017 at 5:05 AM

    The mobile interface is really good compared to the other options out there. I agree 100% that easy and convenient access pushes post rates. Let's wait and see! ...and welcome Nick. :D

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  7. Dean BakerJune 30, 2017 at 7:03 AM

    Cool. Stoked for this. Nice to have something to do during my commute.

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  8. Jacques van der MerweJuly 2, 2017 at 12:41 AM

    I'll be creating the campaign project on Tavern-Keeper later today and will populate the wiki with some player info etc.

    I'll keep you posted!

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  9. Jacques van der MerweJuly 2, 2017 at 4:29 AM

    Dean Baker Barry O'Leary Doug Kilmer Nick Serluco - can you guys please create yourself an account on TK and post your usernames? Thanks!

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  10. NickJuly 2, 2017 at 5:40 AM

    My username is yougotnick.

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  11. Dean BakerJuly 2, 2017 at 6:21 AM

    My username is D34N2

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  12. Barry O'LearyJuly 2, 2017 at 6:57 AM

    Mine is birelarweh.

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  13. Jacques van der MerweJuly 2, 2017 at 12:01 PM

    Great! I'll wrap up the initial info asap so we can roll up characters and get our first posts going this coming week. I'm looking forward to this!

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  14. Doug KilmerJuly 2, 2017 at 12:03 PM

    I'll get signed up tonight

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  15. Doug KilmerJuly 2, 2017 at 6:18 PM

    ShadowStalker it is

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  16. Dean BakerJuly 3, 2017 at 6:17 AM

    For Yoon-Suin, are there special character concepts we're supposed to adhere to, or is it anything goes?

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  17. Barry O'LearyJuly 3, 2017 at 6:25 AM

    Dean Baker To introduce Yoon Suin you could have the PCs be vikings for example, and their ship goes astray. They end up in Yoon Suin and the players find out what it's like. After that you can have the players make up local characters.
    Or you can just start off with locals, or a mix. There's no wrong way, really.
    Edit: I thought I was replying to a different thread. Let's see what Jacques van der Merwe says!

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  18. Jacques van der MerweJuly 3, 2017 at 7:04 AM

    If you have a collective preference regarding being either strangers-in-a-strange-land or being locals let me know. In a previous campaign that I ran for my regular group, they were strangers and we quickly realised that this had a lot of negative impact (not knowing the local language, your unique appearance, trustworthiness, etc) - but this can add some flavour to the game.

    I like players contributing to the world building - it's a key part to my games, so feel free to suggest/recommend/influence as much as you want. :)

    I'll send out the invites when I get home later after work.

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  19. Barry O'LearyJuly 3, 2017 at 7:07 AM

    I quite fancy playing a Viking now. :)

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  20. Jacques van der MerweJuly 3, 2017 at 7:16 AM

    A group of Viking marauders find themselves beached on one of the Topaz Isles shortly after sailing into a sudden (and rather suspicious) storm....

    Yeah that could work.... :D

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  21. Dean BakerJuly 3, 2017 at 7:25 AM

    If you wanted to do vikings, could instead be like a trading ship, East India Trading Company, etc. That way, you can have a variety of character types on the ship.

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  22. Jacques van der MerweJuly 3, 2017 at 7:29 AM

    Absolutely!

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  23. Dean BakerJuly 3, 2017 at 7:38 AM

    Oooh, I'm thinking Wise Weather Witch. Will see how I roll though.

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  24. Jacques van der MerweJuly 3, 2017 at 7:51 AM

    you will be able to swop values between one pair of attributes so Wise Weather Witch it is.... :)

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  25. Dean BakerJuly 3, 2017 at 8:15 AM

    Awesome. Here's what I've got so far. Will finish up once I can roll dice.
    (This is if we are doing Vikings, that is. I can change some basic things later too.)

    https://www.tavern-keeper.com/character/13060/stats

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  26. Jacques van der MerweJuly 3, 2017 at 1:14 PM

    Invites sent

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  27. Jacques van der MerweAugust 17, 2017 at 5:02 AM

    Greetings peeps - so it looks like Tavern Keeper has gone down. I'm not too sure if it's coming back or not, I hope it does! The developer of the service last blogged in 2014 that it costs him $150 per month to host it.

    Do you have any recommendations for an alternative service? Shall we take this over to Roll20? There are quite a few groups using Roll20 for async games.

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  28. Barry O'LearyAugust 17, 2017 at 5:06 AM

    Yep, I'm running a forum game on Roll20, but I guess it's better at running live games.

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  29. Dean BakerAugust 17, 2017 at 5:21 AM

    Mythweavers is an excellent site for PbP. I'm afraid I can't do a second video campaign.

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  30. Jacques van der MerweAugust 17, 2017 at 5:26 AM

    Yeah I think I looked at MW a while ago. We could also use Slack which has web and mobile clients. It could work out pretty well actually. Create a channel for each roleplay scene. I'm pretty certain that there's already a dice-rolling app...

    Speaking of video campaigns... what's happening with yours?

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  31. Jacques van der MerweAugust 17, 2017 at 5:30 AM

    medium.com - Tabletop Role Playing Games for Slack(ers) – Dylan Reed – Medium

    It seems this is not a unique idea. :)

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  32. Dean BakerAugust 17, 2017 at 6:15 AM

    Here's a link. I've been a member on this site for a long time. It's got a great community, and lots of features. Tavern Keeper was a bit more modern (TK uses WYSIWYG formatting, MW uses BBcode. TK is also more mobile friendly), but still, Mythweavers is very accessible.

    https://www.myth-weavers.com

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  33. Dean BakerAugust 17, 2017 at 8:01 AM

    My Hangouts campaign is on hold for the summer, due to it being too intensely hot in my computer room, and as I live in a highrise apartment, opening a window in the middle of the night would create too much noise for my neighbors. Will start it up again very soon though, depending on the weather. It hasn't finished, don't worry!

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  34. Jacques van der MerweAugust 20, 2017 at 10:07 AM

    Are you guys familiar with Storium? I've been looking at various PbP services and reading blog posts about PbP-friendly RPG systems. I have to admit that I quite like the idea of Storium. I managed to locate a game that fits the typical Fantasy RPG mould which I've linked to below. I was interested to see how combat was handled...
    storium.com - Storium — War of Gods and Men

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