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I'd give it a try, but the PBEM D&D I've done in the past hasn't really worked. And I'm concerned we'd need a chess-like annotation system, with each player keeping a battlemat set up next to his or her computer.
Do you guys remember the alignment-changing portal in Tomb of Horrors? We played that a couple years ago (there was another game wrapped around it, one in which you had to play a Gamer Type). Once the paladin figured out what it did, he started shoving other party members thru, starting with the thief. It got ugly.
I'd be willing to run it, but I'd need to pick up the DMG and MM.
Which I'd be willing to do, just to play with Buffistas.
I have some concerns about playing by email too, as Raq expressed. No rush. I'll keep thinking about it and consider picking up the other books.
Okay, thinking about this further, I'm definitely willing to run.
I've run a couple of 3.5 play by post games. They each ran for about six months or so, before breaking up. Now in that six months, each party did a large amount of really fantastic roleplaying, and one combat.
The combats were complex, and involved me posting several hand drawn, scale battle maps. And yeah, after a time, I did add coordinate letters and numbers for precision.
So, I'm not talking a major campaign or anything. Just a little campaign-let, maybe.
I may be able to borrow a copy of the other two books.
And...
I have an idea in mind.
This is one of the reasons I like the Eberron setting. The gods may or may not actually exist, and clerics can be any alignment.
Yeah, I only have the basic Eberron book, so that's as far as I've explored the world, but that was something I *really* liked about the setting. I think i could have gotten in to Eberron, but at this point, I'm thankful I never did.
While I bought a metric buttload of 3.5 books, spending way more money than I think I ever want to admit, I was never stuck playing or running an Eberron or Forgotten Realms campaign, so I like to think of the extra thousands of dollars I saved on 3.x books.
Is this per Bertrand Russell's arguments against God? I really struggled with the relation between God and good when I left the FAC. (A uni course on the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch and Rai Gaita helped me sort out my position.) I love these kinds of questions. (And the Ontological Argument for God, and questions of theodicy, and a bunch of other stuff.)
While I have read some Russell, I wasn't consciously channeling him. I found him interesting, although he occasionally made me want grab him by the collar and rattle him around.
would you all be willing to have a bystander for the game? I'm too much of a newbie, but I would like to watch teh masters play.
that was likely a rude thing to ask, actually. But its early yet.
Oh, not rude at all sox.
If this game happens, I was planning on posting regular updates here in thread for the enjoyment of all. Right now the game is still pretty tentative, though.
Sox, you should totally play.
I'd love to play the email campaign. That sounds just asynchronous enough that it might work really well with my schedule.
