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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deClench" data-source="post: 1957015" data-attributes="member: 27388">Re the PbP campaign.My fear is that it is that it's being made more complicated than it need be.  First off, I don't really understand the rationale for changing forums?  If the gameplay is based off of a standard initiative and everyone posts a single post on their turn as they can (as has been suggested and which sounds reasonable to me), the thread shouldn't grow any faster than a normal thread (in case some were worried about size).  A sticky could be placed at the beginning directing lurker and would-be players to this thread in order to keep some semblance of order.  Everyone should stay strictly in character to avoid any unnecessary posts while discussion, etc. can again come back to this thread.Also, the only thing that I can imagine to be gained from changing forums would be privacy.  Is that what everyone wants?  I thought the point was to make it open?  It has been said already  that if you jump forum you will hedge out newcomers.  I agree.  Besides, does 5ish players justify a $40/year investment which only a handful of others will even see?  That's a personal choice, but it's not attractive to me.Lastly, this is untested.  What if everyone loses  interest in two weeks because it's simply too chaotic or too time-consuming or too something?  Then you would have a nice big empty forum for a year... and $40.  As it should follow initiative order in some way demands that posting slow down as everyone waits for everyone else.  Depending on the size of the party and the initial confusion of rules and format, a single round will likely take several days -- at least in the beginning: the point being that it's not likely to be a high traffic thread for a while which comes back to the justification for any forum jump.My recommendation is to simply make it as an original thread here.  At least to see if it works and everyone stays interested.  If there's enough interest, it could be moved at some point, but I would argue against that as unnecessary and needlessly shunning the rest of the community.  Keep it simple, keep it fun.That's just my 2... er... probably 3 cents."It's the adventure, stupid." <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" /></blockquote>

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