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<blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 7092127" data-attributes="member: 20005">I play in a few other PbP games on another site and one of them has an interesting mechanism to keep the plot moving.&nbsp; The GM created a 'Campfire' thread.&nbsp; The idea was that if a scene was dragging long because of roleplaying, that scene shifts to the 'Campfire' thread to be completed and the story pushes forward.&nbsp; For our present situation, I think we're all set on heading to meet with the old captain.&nbsp; With the campfire system, if anyone else had any narrative goals that they wanted to accomplish at this beach scene they could RP that within the Campfire thread and the rest of the party moves forward with the main plot in the main story thread.&nbsp; It takes a little mutual trust since you're essentially setting up a parallel narrative track, but for IC interactions it works great.&nbsp; If you wanted to preserve everything within the main thread, you could still use the Campfire thread, but create a &quot;to be filled later&quot; post in the main thread before the scene transition.&nbsp; After the scene is done in the Campfire thread, copy and paste the contents into the &quot;to be filled later&quot; post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthan, post: 7092127, member: 20005"] I play in a few other PbP games on another site and one of them has an interesting mechanism to keep the plot moving. The GM created a 'Campfire' thread. The idea was that if a scene was dragging long because of roleplaying, that scene shifts to the 'Campfire' thread to be completed and the story pushes forward. For our present situation, I think we're all set on heading to meet with the old captain. With the campfire system, if anyone else had any narrative goals that they wanted to accomplish at this beach scene they could RP that within the Campfire thread and the rest of the party moves forward with the main plot in the main story thread. It takes a little mutual trust since you're essentially setting up a parallel narrative track, but for IC interactions it works great. If you wanted to preserve everything within the main thread, you could still use the Campfire thread, but create a "to be filled later" post in the main thread before the scene transition. After the scene is done in the Campfire thread, copy and paste the contents into the "to be filled later" post. [/QUOTE]

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