I’ve been running a Play by Post game in the Crumbling Keep Discord using Tephrotic Nightmares, a Mork Borg campaign my Luke Gearing. This is the first time I’ve running a PbP in decades, so it all feels like one big experiment.

This blog post by Yochai Gal did a lot to inspire it. It certainly helped me set it up and gave be a base to go off of.

That said, I’ve been learning a lot as we play. One thing that surprised me (and I think will help me with in person games) is how it anchors on old school fame works. When playing in person, I think folks have an expectation that every moment will be full of some sort of roleplay. In reality, it’s more like playing an old school dragon warrior style rpg video game – you’re traveling overground until a random encounter or getting to a location triggers the screen to swirl and put you into battle mode or onto a different map.

In this campaign, most of the pertinent mechanics are geared toward one day as a length of time. You travel a certain amount of hexes during a day, you have to consume your food and water, etc, etc. It’s given me a template for my daily posts.

Now not everything fits into this template. Not every game turn equals a day. Sometimes, the PCs are just fighting skeletons. Each swing doesn’t take a day. When it is a new day, however, this is what