When to Post?
I am considering (and hoping) to get a Play By Post D&D game together, and so am going about gleaning what precious information I can from various locals. Something that has been wearing on my mind however, is how best to have the players (and myself as DM/GM) time their reactions and actions.
See, I've played around with what I suppose was just Interactive Storytelling in the past, and I find that when you're in a group, things can happen rather suddenly; sometimes right in the middle of when you yourself are preparing to act. What I absolutely hated was spending time writing up a response to what someone else said or did, only to find that as soon as I hit refresh on the page, another character had since come out, written a few lines of their own response and suddenly the whole scene was carrying off into the sunset without me.
So I wonder if maybe having a Posting Order is the ticket. Basically treat it as Initiative, in that everyone writes to a certain order. However, I realize that that could slow down things immensely and get terribly frustrating for those waiting in line who are able to post right away, but cannot until someone else did. But isn't that the way to do things for combat? I'm still fuzzy on how to handle that as well.
Any insight to this dilemma of mine would be much appreciated, thank you.
See, I've played around with what I suppose was just Interactive Storytelling in the past, and I find that when you're in a group, things can happen rather suddenly; sometimes right in the middle of when you yourself are preparing to act. What I absolutely hated was spending time writing up a response to what someone else said or did, only to find that as soon as I hit refresh on the page, another character had since come out, written a few lines of their own response and suddenly the whole scene was carrying off into the sunset without me.
So I wonder if maybe having a Posting Order is the ticket. Basically treat it as Initiative, in that everyone writes to a certain order. However, I realize that that could slow down things immensely and get terribly frustrating for those waiting in line who are able to post right away, but cannot until someone else did. But isn't that the way to do things for combat? I'm still fuzzy on how to handle that as well.
Any insight to this dilemma of mine would be much appreciated, thank you.