Me and My friends have busy schedules, so we can't get together very often to play D&D, but I was wondering if a text-based campaign could be any good. That way you can just play at any time. I was wondering if anyone has tried this, because DMing sucks when there's no one to DM
Play-by-post on the forums is definitely a thing. Play-by-email games have a long history.
So playing by whatever text communication medium you're using should be doable.
That said, in my experience email games fizzle out a lot more than in-person games, and the more players you have, the easier it is to get blocked on somebody just not responding. In particular, D&D combat is a lot. The email games I've played were using less-involved systems. I suggest getting everybody's intent up front for a combat round, and running the whole thing yourself as much as possible.
I think it could work quite well with something like a shared google doc. It would involve a deep level of trust though as I don't know how you would do dice rolls.
If you do Play-by-Post here on the forums then the dice roller is built in.
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
Me and My friends have busy schedules, so we can't get together very often to play D&D, but I was wondering if a text-based campaign could be any good. That way you can just play at any time. I was wondering if anyone has tried this, because DMing sucks when there's no one to DM
Play-by-post on the forums is definitely a thing. Play-by-email games have a long history.
So playing by whatever text communication medium you're using should be doable.
That said, in my experience email games fizzle out a lot more than in-person games, and the more players you have, the easier it is to get blocked on somebody just not responding. In particular, D&D combat is a lot. The email games I've played were using less-involved systems. I suggest getting everybody's intent up front for a combat round, and running the whole thing yourself as much as possible.
I think it could work quite well with something like a shared google doc. It would involve a deep level of trust though as I don't know how you would do dice rolls.
If you do Play-by-Post here on the forums then the dice roller is built in.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
I have a discord server with dice maiden