It was mentioned once before, but is anyone interested in trying to set up an Online play-by-post Ars Magica 5 game? I know of a few RPG sites that easily support such a game and format.

I must confess a bit of selfishness up front though, in such a game I'd mainly like to play rather than GM, except for an occasional story. I'm the primary GM in my gaming group, and this might be the only way I can get from behind the screen.

Would any be interested?

I am trying to set up one in http://groovygamers.com
mainly helping Thayan to run one.

Introductions have Thayan thread, nothing else.
'
http://groovygamers.com/viewtopic.php?t=33

Let's see what we can get. Kick thayan a** to get him running.

If you had a covenant with 5 people, what houses would make it 'perfect'?

Here is my first thoughts:

Verditius for item creation.

Bonisagus for research

Tremere for certamen & covenant vs. covenant conflict resolution

Ex Miscellania and Secret Diedne cabal for Spontanious magic mastery

Björnae for shapeshifting mastery.

What houses would you put into Covenant of Hogwarts?

Tremere for dark ambitions
Bjornae for shapeshifters
Ex Miscellania for friendly mages
But heroic mages, that's difficult.
Bonisagus feels most right but actually Tytalys is well within definition...

\\ But heroic mages, that's difficult.

Flamebeau, of course. The knights of the Order.

-SirGarlon aka Icarus of House Flambeau

Hmm... I guess you are right.

Flambeau
Tremere
Björnae
Ex Miscellania

the proud Covenant of Hogwarts in the british island!

Let's see what we can get. Kick thayan a** to get him running.
---

I guess that was not nice thing to say. But smart people do understand humour.

But you are unbelievable.

I do not believe I have any trouble with Thayan, only with your inner world.

Amazing as I did all you required. Good parents keep strait rules and do not change them randomly. Dont do any kids.

"I allready play one on www.rondaksportal.com, and I'm keep looking for any others to pop up on the same site. However, I'm not very intrested in GMing, so someone else needs to take that responsibility... "

Lets see if there are Friendly Moderators, they are so much better than hostile ones. I have met 2 of those, not nice.

I made my rule clear and I was very blunt about them... You had your chances to shape up but after your apology you came over to this forum after I quoted you from it and made more snide remarks.

You didn’t shape up so you forced me to ship you out. (good luck in finding a game.)

I'd be interested in participating in a play-by-post Ars Magica game. Not sure about running it, though I could.

-- Bard

There will be one starting up in the next week

Go here for the info thread about it
http://groovygamers.com/viewtopic.php?t=257&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

"made more snide remarks."

That was friendly post but you have your problems and that has nothing to do with me. I was in a shape all the time but you were not.

I am expecting an apology but when you grow up, you have already forgotten all about it. I understand kids well so I do not mind, most of them will grow up. Playing in their sandbox teaches them manners, but it takes time. Go ahead and have your time. Mean while I play in a forum with adults, thank you for warning me about a forum where a kid is playing a god, playing in that forum would not have worked.

Yours, an adult.

ArtOfMagic and Shatterstone:

Could you please move your comments to each other to private e-mail? All I can do is ask, since I'm not a moderator (here, anyway), but your comments and harping directed at each other really doesn't belong here in this forum...

At least, that's what I think.

ObTopic:

For those of you planning to run an online game or are participating in an online game, be advised that the pacing of that game will not be the same as a tabletop game. Conversations between characters may take weeks to finish, for instance.

As someone who has run an online saga, I'd recommend that every character provide some generic information to everyone else, so that simple tasks and conversation can be written by anyone, and be reasonably sure to be accurate. You could spend weeks waiting for a reply, especially if a player has gone on vacation. Combat should be handled by the storyguide, with every player providing dice rolls and actions, and the SG writes up the description of the round (or entire fight, if they give multiple rounds of actions).

And lastly, remember that the mod/storyguide is only human, and has other things going on in thier life besides running the game. Enthusiasm is good, but even with the most patient SG, it begins to grate like fingers on a chalkboard....

Steve

Edited 2/6/2005 3:37 pm ET by StevePettit