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Question about online PnP gaming.
TheGreatestAliasEver
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I have a very basic question- how does one manage to play a Pen and Paper game over forums? How can you emulate the dice rolls or, as the case may be, how can you be SURE that they're being honest?
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Real-time chat clients have plenty of chatbots that you can use to automatically roll dice for you, once again eliminating cheating.
It's rather snazzy.
In past experience GMing play-by-posts on other boards, I've found it best to handle all the dice rolls myself, but this was partly because we had an unsettling amount of people interested in role-playing yet barely grasped any concept of being confined to act out being in a specific place & time, or the difference between "suddenly I search for buried gold" and "suddenly I find buried gold!" If you leave them the responsibility to develop their current setting and resolve their own encounters they'll inevitably start running off to their own settings and create new encounters.
But PA's quite a cut above most evidently.
I completely agree.
I'm running two games here, which have different styles and rulesets, and the forumers who play are not only willing to work with the system but also roll (ha) with some of the little things that you gotta do to make things more efficient.
This is the only online forum I'd run or play a play-by-post game in.
in a totally platonic way.
but yeah, this is probably the best community i've been in
o rite
Or you could just hang with us cool cats here on PA. Because we're cool y'see.
Also, I love your spoilered sig, it's hilarious.
I've spent about 13 years doing this and this is the second best community I've ever been a part of, and the absolute best that commonly makes use of public dice rolls.
It works, Alias, promise.
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Man, never was a truer word spoken.
Oh man, tell me about it. My scout in the DoD campaign and Jimninja's jedi in my Clone Wars campaign more often than not seem to be a testament to this.
So I hear.
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Yes, thank you.
e~ Though invisible castle doesn't treat me as well as my own ;o
Join a game.
If you don't like it, quit. If you do, poof, new gaming medium.
If you talk about rolling well the dice will hear you and swear revenge.
You don't want that.
Two weeks ago they flubbed my first two back to back rolls, I went upstairs and got a single d6 from my new Q workshop set. I made them watch while I rolled it twice per attack in their place. I made them watch. They saw how it - I shit you not - critted boxcars twice in a row (with a dab of PC). They saw. I picked them up again next turn and they were back in proper order.
The most important thing you need to remember when wrangling your dice is that their fear of loss is greater than their desire to gain.
Wow, just wow.
I should do that.
Wonder how much paradox it would generate.
I think that about sums up this 'dice luck' malarchy
Who is this "Han Solo"? He sounds like a wise individual. :P
You might recall that he was completely fucking wrong.