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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2568714" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>I've only had experience in two short PBEM D&D games; one homebrew and one Oriental Adventures - Rokugan. I was only a player in both, and while the DMs of both flaked out after a little while (one was understandably busy, the other just kinda stopped responding to e-mails suddenly), the games were fun while they lasted. I really wanted to play Thaeros Faerill or Yogo Shoritomo some more......</p><p></p><p>Definitely a fine format for roleplay-heavy games, and not too bad for combat. In my experience, the players send their character sheets (with all relevant details therein, including separate totals for important stuff to save the DM the trouble of calculating it all during play), get them approved or sent back for adjustments, and then when the DM is satisfied, he runs the game. When dice rolls are called for, the DM rolls dice and then posts the results of the action. During battle the players provide a description of what they'll do on their turn; some DMs may require this at the start of the round, some may take these in the order of initiative. In the first method, it's best to note a few contingencies in case the situation changes before your PC's turn; i.e. a note that says, if any ally drops, my cleric abandons his first idea and rushes to heal them with a Cure Moderate Wounds or whatever.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I might be interested, though I only have Arcana Unearthed (I'm poor right now, I'm sorry! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> ) as of yet. Given relevant details on the campaign, I'm sure I could whip up a character (just couldn't use any stuff myself that was revised or added in AE......). E-mail's in my EN World profile if you're serious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 2568714, member: 13966"] I've only had experience in two short PBEM D&D games; one homebrew and one Oriental Adventures - Rokugan. I was only a player in both, and while the DMs of both flaked out after a little while (one was understandably busy, the other just kinda stopped responding to e-mails suddenly), the games were fun while they lasted. I really wanted to play Thaeros Faerill or Yogo Shoritomo some more...... Definitely a fine format for roleplay-heavy games, and not too bad for combat. In my experience, the players send their character sheets (with all relevant details therein, including separate totals for important stuff to save the DM the trouble of calculating it all during play), get them approved or sent back for adjustments, and then when the DM is satisfied, he runs the game. When dice rolls are called for, the DM rolls dice and then posts the results of the action. During battle the players provide a description of what they'll do on their turn; some DMs may require this at the start of the round, some may take these in the order of initiative. In the first method, it's best to note a few contingencies in case the situation changes before your PC's turn; i.e. a note that says, if any ally drops, my cleric abandons his first idea and rushes to heal them with a Cure Moderate Wounds or whatever. I might be interested, though I only have Arcana Unearthed (I'm poor right now, I'm sorry! :heh: ) as of yet. Given relevant details on the campaign, I'm sure I could whip up a character (just couldn't use any stuff myself that was revised or added in AE......). E-mail's in my EN World profile if you're serious. :D [/QUOTE]
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