=][= Warning Order: PBP Games to be Supported by Clubs =][=

[Brother Tyler]

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that the + PBP Games + subforum will be changing. While the subforum will remain in some form, either as a separate subforum under + Roleplaying Games + or as an index within that other forum, the actual discussions will be moved into the Clubs feature [once relevant clubs have been created by the participants]. The Clubs feature is vastly superior to the discussion Forums feature for this purpose as each club can have its own discussion forum, blog, calendar, articles, and files. We can easily move the existing discussions into the related club, enabling a smooth transition and continuity.

 

This change is happening for the same reason that we'll be changing the + Special Projects + subforum, so the explanation provided in that forum should be referenced.

 

What is likely to happen is that we'll lock each of these discussions at some point (not yet, though, so feel free to continue your RPGing herein). Members are invited to create a club for their RPG efforts. If you have a regular group you can create a club to support all of the RPG efforts/campaigns of that group. Alternately, you can create a separate club for each effort/campaign. The choice is up to you based on what you think is easiest. The club creator should be the person who runs the RPG effort (e.g., the game master/referee in most cases, but you do you). I recommend that you include all of the features in the club for best support, but you can always add one in later. Once your club is created, it will be approved by a staff member. That staff member can then move the relevant discussion topic(s) into the club's discussion forum.

 

Since the only real weakness with the other (non-Forums) features is the lack of visibility within the forums, we'll either use this subforum or an indexed topic in the + Roleplaying Games + forum to promote visibility of your PBP RPG clubs (i.e., announcing new clubs/campaigns or updates to them).

[Trokair]

Will have to think on this a while, and perhaps see the implementation to fully grasp the changes.  

 

 

However the first thought that occurs is: do we want one Play by Post Club that function similar to the subforum now. Or do we want separate Clubs for different games (DW vs DH for example) or for different GMs (where each has their own?) or some other subdivision as seems sensible.

 

My worry with having a slew of separate clubs (however organised) is that it might splinter what is already a not that visable part of the forum/hobby and make it harder for us (and newcomers) to see when new games might be starting or things like that.

 

[Trokair]

 

Ok, on the assumption we have one Play by Post Club, how does this sound as a structure:

• General Discussion – basicly what the PbP sub forum is now, general discussion about potential games, ideas, concpetps etc
• Game specific Section – once a game officially starts it gets its own section where the IC, OOC and character /data threads can go, would probably require moving the potential game discussion from General to this one at that stage. So taking current games as an example we would have one section for Time of Reaving, one for A Knocking Afar, one for Murderers in Black and one for The Blackest Heart.
• Solo Games – I don’t think the various solo play would need  a sepert section each, but one collectively or they can remain in general discussion
• Finished Games/Archive – a place for games that have run their course and act as an archive for what is currently in the nook (assuming things can be moved enmass)

 

Alternatively we could have section organised by GM or by type of game (one shot, planed narrative, open ended ...)  actually now that I write it having section by type of game might be best as we are not that busy a forum that things would move too far down the forum list or get conffusing. So something like:

• General Discussion
• Narrative Games – preplanned longer narrative such as Murderers in Black or Damocles Contingnecy (or it guess even Archeotech) 
• One shot Games – shorter games such as Aknocking Afar or the potential Armageddon based game
• Open ended Games – Blackest Heart, Time of Reaving and similar
• Solo Game – Operation Hellsticke, Blood and Carrion - I guess Solo could also be part of One Shot as they are simmilar, and it is just numbers of player involved
• Finished Games/Archive

[Mazer Rackham]

Sorry Tro, all I heard was:

 

Spoiler

 

23 minutes ago, Trokair said:

Will have to think on this a while, and perhaps see the implementation to fully grasp the changes.  

 

We need to encourage the Nookies to stick thier oars in on this.

 

23 minutes ago, Trokair said:

However the first thought that occurs is: do we want one Play by Post Club that function similar to the subforum now. Or do we want separate Clubs for different games (DW vs DH for example) or for different GMs (where each has their own?) or some other subdivision as seems sensible.

 

Agreed. What about Polling suggestions?

 

23 minutes ago, Trokair said:

My worry with having a slew of separate clubs (however organised) is that it might splinter what is already a not that visable part of the forum/hobby and make it harder for us (and newcomers) to see when new games might be starting or things like that.

 

These are precisely my thoughts.

[Trokair]

4 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Sorry Tro, all I heard was:

 

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and here I thought you were Kapta'n already...

 

Also sorry for the double post above, just brainstroming ideas, and yes polling the options (once we worked out what they are) is a good call. 

 

 

 

  

3 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

We need to encourage the Nookies to stick thier oars in on this.

 

You all hear that, shout up now or forever bemoan any stupid ideas that get implemented. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Trokair

[Black Cohort]

there really isn't much point in having a bunch of different clubs that are all mostly the same people.

[Lysimachus]

I tend to agree with just having one Club with one Discussion Forum. There aren't so many games being run at any one point that it makes it worthwhile to split things up further.

 

And while we are and would be very happy to welcome more new players, the core of the group is pretty well established and I think we all follow most of the games being run, even those we aren't playing in (or maybe that's just me?)

 

Anyway, I'm not sure exactly how it's going to work, I think maybe it will be a case of starting the main PBP Club and see how it develops?

 

 

[Brother Tyler]

I recommend one club per group or per campaign or whatever. A single club for all RPG PBP would undermine the concept. I think that the group club works great, especially if multiple current discussions are just the same group playing different adventures/campaigns.

 

Yes, this is something that will be unfamiliar to those of you who haven't looked into the Clubs feature. Once you get the hang of it, though, the advantages will be clear.

[Mazer Rackham]

18 minutes ago, Trokair said:

...and here I thought you were Kapta'n already...

 

Yeah, but illusion of choice keeps em compliant, you know?

Edited 1 hour ago by Mazer Rackham