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They're around, just scattered. The biggest problem is maintaining a PbP game. They require a level commitment most people can't, or won't, give. Personally I suck at PbP. I just don't have the dedication to it. The main drain is that I'm already part of live gaming group so I don't really need to play with an online group.

Personally I think the best option would be a Fan-Fic/Short-story Anthology format, using a particular game's rules as guide, would be better then a back and forth PbP game. I'd be more then willing to pass control of a character to another writer(player) as long as they follow the personality profile and action guide.

I was half heartedly trying to build my own guild based on the idea. I was looking at combining several different d20 rules sets to cover a wide array of character types but that stalled and has been in nosedive ever since. It's to bad my old Long Form RP posts got deleted when guild that got me join Gaia in the first place closed. Funny, I was asked in RW by friends to come onboard the guild and work on the rules mechanics. "No matter where you go, there you are."

I did come up with this crazy idea on how to handle 1/4 leveling.

Most of my online DnD crews have disbanded and I had to move away from my old IRL group, if anyone knows of a online crew, I'm up for it!

well we could just have character sheets stored some were in the forum and gaia has a built in die rolling system we could use. id realy like to do this and im willing to help keep track of characer sheets and stff

Thanks to you all this new bit of information will make my job alot easier. I have been hoping Voltaire! Voltaire! would let us have a roleplay sub forum. I was planning on being DM.

I don't use the sheet hosting sites. It's easy enough to format a decent character sheet that you can stick in Gaia Post. It ends up looking more like a monster entry the a PnP sheet but then again there are no Pens here. That way I don't have to worry about them going down for mataince or the like, and taking the sheet with them. If Gaia goes down the game is basically on hold anyways.

The only diceless(no-chance) based RPG I've seen was the one put out Marvel Comics. It's no longer in print because it was mistyped and "bragged" about it's diceless system.

I see Dice(and chance) as being important parts of a successful game. Currently there is no way inside Towns to do that. Back posting into Chatterbox while your in Towns would just slow everything down as people switch between windows, post, and then wait for the DM to check the results. There is also the posting speed limit, which would prevent rolling of many different die types quickly, say like a D&D sneak attack done by a Rogue with a dagger. That's a 1d4 and Xd6, two posts.

If you get away from the main population groups you can have a decent time. Also it looks like Chatter Box because there is very little else people can do in Towns. There is a theater company that performs every now and then. There are also other groups that stage events and get-togethers. However the vast majority have nothing better to do then chat/spam and socialize/fo-hump.

soo um are we ever actualy going to do this?