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<blockquote data-quote="Tukka" data-source="post: 5908826" data-attributes="member: 6668048"><p>I would have done something like what you describe if I thought my live group would have been down for it. I think that between the lengthy live sessions plus time spent between sessions shopping and updating their characters they felt like they were getting their fill of D&D during the week, or at least some of them did. Obviously everyone would have to be on board for this to work.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of the exploration and skill challenge type things would be very well handled by post. One of the reasons I hate skill challenges is that I find that both as a player and a DM I have a hard time coming up with an action and description for the action that makes sense and sounds good in real time. I'm just not good at that kind of improv on the spot. PBP alleviates that issue.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I think a lot of the social/RP encounters may be better handled in person, depending on whether you and your players are more literary or more theatrical. It's harder to ham it up in writing, and I worry that in the PBP format, I will be either be too prone to give info-dumping monologues and soliloquies that the PCs can't interrupt, or spread out that info among multiple posts in a way that would be irritating to my players if they don't want to interrupt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tukka, post: 5908826, member: 6668048"] I would have done something like what you describe if I thought my live group would have been down for it. I think that between the lengthy live sessions plus time spent between sessions shopping and updating their characters they felt like they were getting their fill of D&D during the week, or at least some of them did. Obviously everyone would have to be on board for this to work. I think a lot of the exploration and skill challenge type things would be very well handled by post. One of the reasons I hate skill challenges is that I find that both as a player and a DM I have a hard time coming up with an action and description for the action that makes sense and sounds good in real time. I'm just not good at that kind of improv on the spot. PBP alleviates that issue. On the other hand, I think a lot of the social/RP encounters may be better handled in person, depending on whether you and your players are more literary or more theatrical. It's harder to ham it up in writing, and I worry that in the PBP format, I will be either be too prone to give info-dumping monologues and soliloquies that the PCs can't interrupt, or spread out that info among multiple posts in a way that would be irritating to my players if they don't want to interrupt. [/QUOTE]
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