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Transitioning from traditional/physical tabletop to PbP
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Just a break from your regular programming to ask a quick question. Feel free to nuke this thread or ban this sick filth if it's placed inappropriately or whatever
Here's the problem: the group I'm in has been on-and-off RPing for quite some time. We've gotten through 2 (almost 3) 4e campaigns in the past couple years, though we've always occasionally had difficulties finding times where we could get upwards of 5 people (or at least, enough to have a proper party). We've had a long-standing DM who handed off DMing to one of the players because he had a homebrew Eberron campaign, and that was good fun, but now that guy has had to put that on a hiatus.
So our original DM has now taken it upon himself to start a separate thing altogether, and has invested in a Numenara campaign, which I hear (from his words) takes a great deal of commitment due to the manner in which experience is distributed. Besides this being a questionable decision given that context, additionally one of our players is now overseas. To get around this, we committed to playing through Roll20 (and Skype as a back-up).
Thing is, now even that is starting to look shaky, because the DM was hoping for regular weekly online meet-ups but it's again, inconsistent and it's starting to wear on his nerves to the point that he's contemplated dropping this campaign before it gets any further.
Given all this, would it be beneficial for my group to transition to a sort of play-by-post format (ie. would it be able to put less scheduling pressures on the group?), and if not, would there be any other way of reducing the need for every member of the group to be present at the exact same time of the week?
Here's the problem: the group I'm in has been on-and-off RPing for quite some time. We've gotten through 2 (almost 3) 4e campaigns in the past couple years, though we've always occasionally had difficulties finding times where we could get upwards of 5 people (or at least, enough to have a proper party). We've had a long-standing DM who handed off DMing to one of the players because he had a homebrew Eberron campaign, and that was good fun, but now that guy has had to put that on a hiatus.
So our original DM has now taken it upon himself to start a separate thing altogether, and has invested in a Numenara campaign, which I hear (from his words) takes a great deal of commitment due to the manner in which experience is distributed. Besides this being a questionable decision given that context, additionally one of our players is now overseas. To get around this, we committed to playing through Roll20 (and Skype as a back-up).
Thing is, now even that is starting to look shaky, because the DM was hoping for regular weekly online meet-ups but it's again, inconsistent and it's starting to wear on his nerves to the point that he's contemplated dropping this campaign before it gets any further.
Given all this, would it be beneficial for my group to transition to a sort of play-by-post format (ie. would it be able to put less scheduling pressures on the group?), and if not, would there be any other way of reducing the need for every member of the group to be present at the exact same time of the week?
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And even if all the players are, if you have a disinterested or busy GM- well there goes that.
note: this is just my experience .
If you have a regular gaming group. I assume you are on the same wavelength, so that works in your favor. If the GM's main issue is schedule vs. enthusiasm- I think it could likely work.
It's probably worn him down over the years, because its definitely been a recurring theme where one or two people 'can't make it' because they've got something on that particular time, and then the DM is just like "forget it we'll schedule it for another week". My impression of PbP is that because people don't necessarily have to be on at the same time, we might be able to mitigate that particular problem.