That could be a lot of fun...

I got a new board game for Christmas that no one seems to want to play with me because it's a little complex, but it could be a perfect Play by Post game. Maybe I'll try setting it up once I've been around a little longer...

Go with Games Workshop's Advanced Hero Quest. Greatest board game ever.

Hero Quest was fucking awesome, though it seems like it'd have a fair bit of overlap with the current D&D, since that's basically what it was. Minus the roleplaying, and simplified a whole bunch.

Advanced Hero Quest had a lot more depth to it but was pretty much a dungeon crawler. The random dungeon generator was cool though.

Could always go with Advanced Space Crusade instead, same basic thing with Space Marine scouts, bit more like Space Hulk (Which itself was an incredible game).

Well that's just it, we already know there's some degree of demand for this sort of thing already. And of course the simplification/lack of roleplay may attract additional people who just want to move a Barbarian around a maze without a bunch of paperwork.

I'd actually already gathered up everything I needed for HeroQuest (hell of a coincidence) but I'll grab Advanced and see whether it's significantly more problematic.

That's true. It's unfortunate that the number of players is so limited, though I haven't tried the Advanced game so perhaps that's changed.

It was a hell of a lot of fun though, so I'm sure there won't be any problems with interest.

As long as we don't start too many things at once - we don't want to run out of participants for all of these games. It shouldn't be a problem though, there's probably enough people on the D&D waiting list already...

Yeah, I'll be running this game myself. And I've no reason to butt heads with Pang between our games. Being a player and a GM shouldn't take up an obscene amount of time, though, and being a player in both would take up even less.

I think there's plenty of room for nerdage between our groups.

I started working on it, honestly. I even dug out all my old sourcebooks and found some old campaign guides, along with a good starting mission.

However, Star Wars tends to be, er, "continuity" based - in that if a player dies, it can get messy. I'm still looking into examples of PBP playing too.

Advanced used sections of floor tiles rather than a set board, had a bit more character customisation, more depth to the characters in general, allowed you to recruit henchmen and had Skaven as the primary bad guys, for the built in campaign at least although the rules were all there for every other kind of beasty you might wish to infest a dungeon with.

HeroQuest? FUCK YEAH.

Okay, due to wvlfpvp's post I'm getting back to researching on the Star Wars d6 thing. I actually found a community that does PBP with the old WEG rules (which is a rather surprising, given the age of the system and its being replaced with the much better known WotC game)

If theres any kind of updates, I'll stick them in my journal with a proper title heading.

All I know is d6 rules. I still have my wild die somewhere.

D6 is probably the easiest and most flexible system I've ever come across. You can learn everything about it in the span of about a page and a half.

(However, the scale system in Star Wars is a little weird. The conversion of weapon damage between speeder, walker and death star scale weapons makes for a lot of number crunching.)

Yeah. Scale always fucked with my head, until I played with someone who said "yeah, just kinda ignore those and go with what makes sense in your head."

Okay guys. Only six days left until this thing is over, and I launch a big shiny thread about how we're all playing Shadowrun for the next year or so. If this excites you, vote away. If this horrifies you. Vote for the other one.

Whatever! Just vote, suckas!

Four days.

Tick Tock.

(already writing up a ShadowRun adventure)

Jesus, this is probably the longest poll in the history of Gamingforce. You get all your votes in the first two days and last day of any given poll, there's never any reason to have one open for longer than four days. Especially given that in this case, you probably don't want someone who's waited a week and a half to register a vote playing in your campaign anyway otherwise each fight's going to take three months.

Silly bear.

I'm not gonna play because I already sniped my slot in the D&D game but Exalted is for gay babbies.

Also, at this point it doesn't look like there's any possible way the poll's gonna lean towards Exalted anyhoo.

I'm going to put my name forward but somewhere down the bottom of the list and if Pang's not managed to kill Bob by the time I reach the top of the list I'll let myself slide until Bob either get's cut down in his prime or achieves nirvana and becomes one with the universe.

Yeah, I'm not going to be in the first party either. However, it sounds like there'll be faster turnover in Shadowrun, which is rad.

h8 u Shin

Voted for Shadowrun. Sounds interesting, and if I play then I'll get to flounder around and generally be an idiot since I have no idea how it works.

4th edition will be a bit of a departure for me, too. I'm more of a 2nd and 3rd edition guy. Largely I want to try this out to see how it plays.