Setting up a Forum RP for OVA

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Setting up a Forum RP for OVA

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Greetings and Salutations all!

I found OVA while looking, in nostalgia, for a game like BESM, and I've been delighted to own the game ever since. Can't wait for some non-Kickstarter hardcopies to come out!

Anyways, I'm thinking of setting up a game to be run via online Forum. I'm looking for regular posters. My plan is to run about three-four games at once - Forum RP is a slower pace, so it helps to have a few different RPs going to keep interest high.

I want to have a mash-up Anime game, a giant mecha drama, a magical girl RP, a horror high school, and an anime-supers (think western supers as if done by anime artists and writers, not sentai).

Looking for interested players, and a suggestion or two on some forum software and hosts. Worse comes to worse, I can use Gaia Online account as well (it's a stable website, if nothing else).

On a related note, has there ever been any consideration to hosting RP here?
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Some people talked of it once but nothing came of it. I would be interested in an RPG here.
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Might be interesting if this forum had a section for organizing and running play-by-post campaigns.
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Publishing RP on here would be a lot of fun, and an easy place to go to. Is Clay okay with setting up RP on here?
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rpol.net, rpggeek and iwaku are some recomendations of RP focused sites I know. Never played at rpggeek, however.
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Well, rather than jump to a site I know nothing about (like a few suggested) I'm going to suggest RP here. Unless a Mod doesn't desire this, which would of course be a reasonable call.

Who's interested?
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I am interested. What kind of game we looking at?
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The topic has come up before. If people really would like a place on-site to do their role-playing, I don’t see why not.

Would you want it to be a public forum, or some sub-section you need permission for? If I were just to take a stab at it, I would probably make it a public sub-section of this Game and Player Bulletin forum. (Or maybe just rename it altogether. The Game and Player Bulletin has never really achieved its purpose well.)
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But how we'll roll dice? Using Rolz.org?
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I'd go public forum for the RP Section.

As for rolls I suggest invisible castle. It lets anyone do a dice roll then post a link to that dice roll. So we do not have to be online at the same time.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4802624/

The dice roller page can be found here and you do not need to register.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/
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I'd also be interested in a forum-based game, if it's not already overcrowded.
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I would also be interested...
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Okay, I created a sub-forum here for everyone to play in at their leisure! I haven’t done a lot of Play-By-Post gaming, so let me know if there’s anything else I can do to make it a good place to host games.
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Well an onsite dice roller would be nice. But that could be asking too much.
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Well this was a bust.
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