Hail, and well met!

I'm DMDoom, occasionally called The Mad Catter, and as the screen name might reveal, I'm primarily a DM, having been behind the screen for over two decades. I used to do a lot of play by post games, either to try my hand as a player, or to run the games I either lacked the time to run for my primary group, or my primary group wasn't interested in playing. Took a lengthy hiatus on account of that pesky thing called life, but recently I've been wanting to get back into the swing of things, probably joining a game as a player first, then trying to run one of my own.

My usual play-by-post stomping grounds has been RPOL.net, a fine little site, custom made for the purpose, but numbers seem to be thinning there and I wanted to poke around and see if any other solid PBP sites have cropped up since I started there, hence coming to Gamers Plane. Anyway, hope to join you all rolling some good ol' virtual dice!

Welcome aboard, you will find a great range of experience here and as for one I am always happy to see more GM’s jumping onboard 😁

ps there are a lot of games look for players to jump in currently, I am in two that could use another player.

Welcome aboard

Welcome!

I'll take a look around. :-) Might try to find a Pathfinder 2E or D&D 5E game to join, start with what I know or can easily access and go from there.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Haven’t seen a public PF2E game posted yet, but there’s lots of 1E and D&D 5E games around, and loads of other systems too. One of my favorite things about GP is the chance to play and learn a lot of systems with friendly GMs willing to teach.

Welcome to the site!

Thank you kindly!
Given the amount of money I've dumped into Pathfinder 1E, and how many AP's I've yet to run, but want to, I'm sure I'm not the only one. :-P That said, I had a rough go at play-testing Pathfinder 2E, less because of the system and more because my group experienced a number of technical difficulties so we never got to get a solid feel for it. Figure if I can find a Play by Post game, I can get a better feel for it, and determine if I want to invest in it, or focus on completing my Pathfinder 1E collection before it gets difficult to obtain certain titles.

Out of curiosity, if I'm recruiting, but my game takes place on another site (i.e. RPOL.net), would it be untoward for me to see if people here would be interested? Just want to make sure I don't step on toes in such a case.

Keleth has built a great community here and provided many resources with his own time and money, for free. I'd like to understand from your perspective why you would think it would be untoward, or not.

Welcome!

Welcome aboard!

Hello and welcome!

Looking at that name I wasn't sure if you were a DM who is doom or doom for your DM. Good thing you specified ;)

Welcome to the site

When it comes to online gaming, I'm usually of the mindset that reaching across communities is a good thing, I've introduced some people from Roll20 to Fantasy Grounds, and some people from Fantasy Grounds to Roll20 for example. That said, assumption makes an ass out of umption, and some places might have a community where that is seen more as poaching. If such is the case, I shall only post for games I intend to run on here. I hope that clarifies things.

And yet it can totally be both. ;-) Though being a DM myself, I prefer not to be a thorn in their side when I play. :-P

Welcome DMDoom. We play tested PF2e here as well, and there was definite interest afterward. I'm not sure if a game started, but they're sometimes launched without advertising.

As to RPOL, I think an issue would mostly be if you were only poaching players to go there and not contributing to the community here. However, mileage will vary for other players.

Which is what I plan on clarifying. I'm excited to see how Gamers Plane handles PbP games though, so contributing shouldn't be an issue.