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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 3107316" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I think Enforcer is right. In my experience in PbP games here... 4 out of every 5 games started tend to disband within the first month for a multitude of reasons. Thus, no one really wants to put a whole lot of stock and effort into really outrageous games because chances are we won't even get past the first two pages of the thread before it's all done and buried. So reading blocks upon blocks of house rules (90% of which will probably never actually get used) I think makes people just say "I'll wait for the next one". There will invariably be another game starting shortly that will have easy and basic character creation that doesn't involve a lot of mental work to figure out, and thus if they create a character for it and then the game never gets off the ground, it's no big loss.</p><p></p><p>It's the same reason why I never sign up for any high-level or gestalt games around here, because the length of time it'll take to put one of these uber-characters together ends up being so much longer than the game itself invariably runs.</p><p></p><p>I would bet that if you were to remove the "Spoiler" box from your opening post and just ran the game with regular D&D and Eberron rules, you'll probably get more response. People will already have characters written up from previously disbanded PbP games and will be more willing to resubmit them as is, rather than needing to completely rework them using True20 rules. At least, that's just my .02 cents</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 3107316, member: 7006"] I think Enforcer is right. In my experience in PbP games here... 4 out of every 5 games started tend to disband within the first month for a multitude of reasons. Thus, no one really wants to put a whole lot of stock and effort into really outrageous games because chances are we won't even get past the first two pages of the thread before it's all done and buried. So reading blocks upon blocks of house rules (90% of which will probably never actually get used) I think makes people just say "I'll wait for the next one". There will invariably be another game starting shortly that will have easy and basic character creation that doesn't involve a lot of mental work to figure out, and thus if they create a character for it and then the game never gets off the ground, it's no big loss. It's the same reason why I never sign up for any high-level or gestalt games around here, because the length of time it'll take to put one of these uber-characters together ends up being so much longer than the game itself invariably runs. I would bet that if you were to remove the "Spoiler" box from your opening post and just ran the game with regular D&D and Eberron rules, you'll probably get more response. People will already have characters written up from previously disbanded PbP games and will be more willing to resubmit them as is, rather than needing to completely rework them using True20 rules. At least, that's just my .02 cents [/QUOTE]
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