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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 865670" data-attributes="member: 3649">Well, in response to the thread title: yes, it is. The same things happen. They just happen more slowly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It (PbeM/PbP gaming) fills a void for me. I used to be able to game two or sometimes three times a week, with different groups. There was more diversity and change in my overall gaming experience. I got to try new things much more often.Now I have one game a week and while it is overall very fullfilling and enjoyable, I find I want more change. We tend to play a campaign for years at a stretch, and I want something different. Through PbP, MUSH (<a href="http://www.treyvan.com/" target="_blank">Treyvan, for starters</a>) and online tools like GRiP, I get to play our current game, D&D, D20 Modern and Mutant and Masterminds.If there is anything different about it, it's the style. I like the fact that I can take my time and craft a pose or post that's descriptive. I find that I'm actually a better role-player online, simply because I communicate in writing better than I do face- to - face. I can do character thoughts. I can do body language. I can do better facial expressions. I can comment on backstory. I can do long-winded exposition and not hog table-time. In some ways it's not as good as being able to get with a group of people, and in some ways it's better. Go check out some of the Dusk posts in the Hosted D&D Settings forum, or the myriad PbP games in Playing the Game. Go check out Angelboi's <a href="http://www.goandroleplay.com/home/forum.php?FORUM_ID=1726" target="_blank">Shadows Rising d20 Modern</a> game, or his <a href="http://www.goandroleplay.com/home/forum.php?FORUM_ID=3524" target="_blank">Mutants and Masterminds Game</a>. There's lots of fun stuff going on in all those places.</blockquote>

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