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<blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3722138" data-attributes="member: 11146">I hesitated to add a reply here because I'm not voicing interest in a game run in a chat environment.&nbsp; But, since you did inquire whether others think it a good or a bad idea, I feel moderately comfortable voicing my opinion that, having done it, chat isn't the best environment for gameplay.&nbsp; It tends to combine the worst trait of PbP (slowness) with the worst trait of online communication (lack of clarity due to harried typing and no face-to-face interaction).&nbsp; I found myself thoroughly irritated with the double whammy of having to wait aeons for everyone else to reply, only to find that their replies were either incoherent due to poor typing, or that we had to work our way through multiple queries on where so-and-so is/what so-and-so is doing in order to make sense of the game.&nbsp; While PbP is, IMO, inferior to tabletop gaming, at least with PbP you expect the pace to be slower and all parties involved normally have a chance to think through actions and speech and to edit if need be.&nbsp; YMMV!&nbsp;&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CanadienneBacon, post: 3722138, member: 11146"] I hesitated to add a reply here because I'm not voicing interest in a game run in a chat environment. But, since you did inquire whether others think it a good or a bad idea, I feel moderately comfortable voicing my opinion that, having done it, chat isn't the best environment for gameplay. It tends to combine the worst trait of PbP (slowness) with the worst trait of online communication (lack of clarity due to harried typing and no face-to-face interaction). I found myself thoroughly irritated with the double whammy of having to wait aeons for everyone else to reply, only to find that their replies were either incoherent due to poor typing, or that we had to work our way through multiple queries on where so-and-so is/what so-and-so is doing in order to make sense of the game. While PbP is, IMO, inferior to tabletop gaming, at least with PbP you expect the pace to be slower and all parties involved normally have a chance to think through actions and speech and to edit if need be. YMMV! :) [/QUOTE]

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