Why GamersPlane?

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The issue with CSS formatting is that it can be abused. While we can use it to do the things Adam has demonstrated, it could easily be used maliciously. As such, after discovering that they work, we quickly realized as a community that the risk of spreading the knowledge was too high.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age

Thanks. I'm starting to see what you mean. :)

Very encouraging! I've had similar experiences with PBP in general, but this seems like healthy and reliable place.

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Very informative. I see your points and I agree. Thanks!

Thanks!

A friend invited us here to play a game. Claimed GP would work better than the basic tool we had on this other site we were hanging out in. Some years later, another guy on that other site insisted we played a game on tavern keeper instead. While tavern keeper has some really nice features, I found its dice roller to be really unintuitive and unable to handle most rolls GP is capable of.

Just looked at https://www.tavern-keeper.com/

Not gonna lie - that looks quite pretty.

Yeah it's got some really nice coding and some cool ideas. My favorite is you can leave comments on a post where the post will flip over like a notecard and so it makes every post it's own little sub-thread. It's much cleaner and saves space instead of making a new post and just quoting the original post.

Ugh! Responsive design.... which is all on the left! Man! That's gonna give me a wicked crick in my neck.



The dice roller is better than GP's in that it can handle things like: 2d8+1d4+3

But (as far as I can see) it's one dice roll per post - and anybody who's been in one of my games knows that that isn't going to work for me.

(Edit: you can add multiple rolls if you comma separate them. Nah man, I need multiple lines)

Yeah I never noticed before how much white space there is haha. Apparently like Keleth, the creator's working on v2.0 so the website has been in "stasis" mode for awhile.

I played pbp for probably 2 years before I found Gamersplane.

Bounced around through the major sites, tried a couple smaller places. Once I found GP I never looked back.

Reason number 1, and the most important by far, for me is the community. I experienced a lot of elitism at the majors, a lot of cliquee-ness. I experienced severe cliquee-ness, mostly relating to the "founding community" at the few smaller places I tried. Never got any of that here. Certainly ppl have ppl that they know best and may tend to form groups around those ppl still here, but I never experienced exclusivity. Very open. Very helpful. And most importantly, just kind. That last bit can be surprisingly rare...

The other reasons for me is the "suite" of tools. Just the combination of in-post dice roller and easy formatting tools, the in-forum character sheets, and the ability to have individual avatars for characters and NPCs.

I specifically searched for a PbP site in Google a few years ago when I found GamersPlane. Back then, I looked through a few of the more popular ones, but most of them intimidated me with their large userbases and high standards for writing (or at least high standards I suspected that they had). Not to say GP doesn't have standards, but it just looked more approachable! Plus, it had a nice design, and after scouting through the forums I liked the community I saw.

I much prefer smaller sites over bigger ones because otherwise I start feeling anxious over fitting in with an established userbase. But here I will eventually get to know some players, and thus will feel more comfortable around them! :D I certainly didn't regret joining, and it's still the only site I use.

As for Discord, same deal - can't interact with too many people at once. And chats make it harder for me to respond because they don't offer an option to ponder for a while over your words (even if they do, the time pressure's still here). Plus, Discord isn't very good for organizing things. Though ability to add a lot of bots for rolls and such is nice. :)

Thanks for that. :)

Yeah - - the bots are cool, but I get your point here. Thanks!

I don't have any new insights to offer.

I started 2 years ago trying out some common storytelling, with no common ruleset but alot of cliquee-ness and our way or the highway mentality.
I found a few sights and as FlyingSucculent said there were those sites that were intimidating in their complexity and sub-sub-sub-sub forums, as well as written application to have a chance to play in a game.

GP felt open, simple enough to get started and complex enough to be creative. I would great joy in exploring a character in a way there was never time for around the table.

I got back into RPGs about 6 years ago and didn’t have any local players. I searched around for some sort of online play and didn’t really like my options until I came across GamersPlane - signed up immediately and got to playing!

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