[DitV] Play by Post Game?
Filip Luszczyk:
DitV is not very well suited for PBF play as it is and I wouldn't expect it to produce even remotely similar gaming experience when played that way. However, if you can't find players locally, you might want to consider VT play with some VoiP application (e.g. Skype + Vassal Engine combo).
Moreno R.:
Seeing the results of these play by forum, I wouldn't consider DitV the worst game to play by forum: the slow pace give it even a more "hard" edge, giving people a lot of time to think very nasty raises. I am very satisfied with the PbF I am GMing now (where the mother of a pregnant 15-years old abused girl gave a potion that cause abortion to a Dog and said to him "I can't choose between damning my soul or saving my child's future. But you can kill without sin. YOU make her drink this!"). The only problem it's that it's slooooow... several months for a single city... My advice is to play with no more than two players.
A game that instead we discovered work very, very well in play-by-forum is Spione. And the interesting thing is that work differently than played tabletop, it's a very different face of a very good game.
P.S.: the links I posted above don't work. These are the right ones:
The forum: www.gentechegioca.it
The play-by-forum section: www.gentechegioca.it/vanilla/?CategoryID=7
Games in progress at this time:
Dogs in the Vineyard
Spione:
Solar System
In a Wicked Age
Don't Rest Your Head:
Filip Luszczyk:
Moreno,
In any of those games you're thinking about, did you use the system as is? Because I can't imagine how this system could be used in PBF environment without some serious modifications of play procedures, formal or not. The scope of difference is even greater than with larping.
It seems to me you must have been playing an entirely different game, even if DitV's setting and premise were used to the letter. It's not about whether those PBF gaming experiences of yours were successful in themselves or not, but whether they constituted accurate DitV (as designed) play. I can't imagine how the game as is could be played in PBF environment more than I can imagine some PC game's DVDs used to play that game on Playstation.
The medium is plain not compatible with the system as designed. Surely, cool kids can hack a game for different medium that produces equivalent gaming experience, but that's not what I'm talking about when I say the game is not very well suited for PBF play.
Moreno R.:
Quote from: Filip Luszczyk on May 31, 2009, 10:22:16 AM
Moreno,
In any of those games you're thinking about, did you use the system as is?
Exactly as is. The game manual is the absolute authority on any rules discussion. Maybe with some hacking it would be possible to solve the slowness problem, but seeing that the play-by-forum was started as a sort of tutorial for people who didn't understand how to play DitV at the table, I wanted to play with the same exact rules.
The fact that it's possibile to play DitV without any rules modification is one of the things that make it suited to play-by-forum (if you are not disturbed by the slowness). Not many rpgs can be played that way without some house rule.
In Spione's case, the way it's played allowed a very fast playing time with a little house rule: during the Maneuver phase, there is a time limit and then the following player can post his/her move without waiting
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Because I can't imagine how this system could be used in PBF environment without some serious modifications of play procedures, formal or not. The scope of difference is even greater than with larping.
It seems to me you must have been playing an entirely different game, even if DitV's setting and premise were used to the letter. It's not about whether those PBF gaming experiences of yours were successful in themselves or not, but whether they constituted accurate DitV (as designed) play. I can't imagine how the game as is could be played in PBF environment more than I can imagine some PC game's DVDs used to play that game on Playstation.
Can you give an example of a DitV play procedure that you think it would impossible to play by forum?
Michael Pfaff:
Seems like DitV is perfect for PbP.
Just for your edification, I did wind up convincing a friend and my wife to play a session. My wife and I loved it, and I think my friend was impressed.
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