Binder Fred
3 rings to bind them all!
Um, well discuss away, Perrin. Don't personnaly have problems with any of the above.
<Response Perrin?>
<Response Perrin?>
1. I understand why people do it. In my own games, I ask people not to do it in an IC thread. Generally is it easy to refer to who the character is talking to without it. And, with our smaller group, I don't think it is necessary myself. My question is: Is the need for it outweighing the clutter it causes? Specifically for our group of players, different games it is necessary.1. Quoting other characters in the IC thread
2. Binder's "<Response Mack>" cues
3. Mack's picture on every IC post
I think they're pretty essential myself (obviously ), to know not only whom you're addressing, but what you're specifically replying to (almost a requirement when you're doing multiple scenes at once). I personnaly dislike long paragraphs responding to multiple interventions by other other characters. Quoted text are more dynamic, encouraging short, or at least specific, responses that simulate real time conversations better, I think -- though YMMMV, of course.1. I understand why people do it. In my own games, I ask people not to do it in an IC thread. Generally is it easy to refer to who the character is talking to without it. And, with our smaller group, I don't think it is necessary myself. My question is: Is the need for it outweighing the clutter it causes? Specifically for our group of players, different games it is necessary.
Developped these things way back early in my PBEM carreer in a game where we posted the entire ongoing conversation each time we posted, replacing the tags with our name on them with our replies and adding our own where we wanted answers. When all the Response tags were gone, the conversation was done.2. The <Response> cues. Personally, they are very helpful for speed reading and review. With the gray letters on black background, the clutter is not an issue. Less the the OOC blocks the site has.
However, I tried it once in another game because people were ignoring my conversation hooks and I got "wtf is that!?" and I never tried it again.
Here's the example they show: http://www.enworld.org/forum/group.php?groupid=220I'm fine with everything how it is currently personally. I don't find the quotes or character portraits to be much of a problem, if I ever do at all.
As for Campaign Manager, I have no idea how to even start utilizing it, so I'm going to have to say "no" on that for now.