Hello, all!

Just wandering around the Internet lookin for stuff to do—I wish I’d found this site during my bout with Covid a couple weeks ago but alas!

I’m Andrew, I’m from New York, and I like both writing and socializing, and here the twain seem to meet~

I’m constantly coming up with new character ideas for the systems I know (which, perhaps unsurprisingly, are mostly D&D 5e and a number of PbtAs/FitDs) and daydreaming about the ones I don’t, so hopefully I’ll get to play something with all of you.

Thank you for reading my extremely cringe post.

hello and welcome
You will surely find a game or two

We all started somewhere - don't worry about it ;)

Welcome to GP, akorn! Lots of 5e played here, and we could always use more PbtA and FitD -- good luck finding or running a game!

Thanks, you [swiftly checks pronouns] guys!

DMing is definitely a longterm goal for me—I think it especially suits people like myself who are constantly coming up with new characters, haha, and learning the ropes as a player has, I feel, been really helpful in figuring out what I’d like to be like on the other side of the proverbial screen. At this point I feel I could probably manage a 5e module, particularly something Adventurer’s League (a type of play that isn’t for everyone but whose portability I love), but likely not much more than that.

Enough navel-gazing though, now I’m gonna try game-looking 🤪

🐋come fellow millennial. You're in for a treat.

Welcome to GP fellow New Yorker!

Just got here and I’ve already got two fellows! Let’s goooo!!!!!

Welcome, fellow Earthling!

If you want to see how GP functions, here are links to the New GP Member Guide, the forum rules, this video introduction made by user Qralloq and a little helpful formatting guide made by user Adam. You might also be interested in looking through some public games as well to get a feel for the site.

To join a game, keep your eyes on the Games Tavern, where GMs advertise their games and look for players.

You're also invited to join us on the Discord server for some friendly conversation, about the site, RPGs in general or anything else!

I also run a beginner's game as a quick introduction to GamersPlane and play-by-post, if you're interested.

If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to contact any of the following moderators:

bowlofspinach
CancerMan
Dramasailor
Len
Naatkinson
Qralloq
Keleth (site owner)

Happy gaming!

I love your profile picture, by the way 😆

welcome akorn!

Welcome akorn!

Welcome Aboard!

Welcome to the community!

Hello and welcome!

Thanks all!

Bowl (can I call you Bowl???), definitely interested in the beginner’s game! I’ve clicked the funny Apply button!

Welcome akorn! Bowls game will set you up good for understanding how this PBP thing works, plus it's a fun adventure on its own.

Hello and welcome to GP! Lots of friendly people and a whole host of great tools are here, ripe for enjoying some PbP games.

Welcome!

Welcome to the community, akorn!

Love seeing ppl call out FitD! It can be a challenging system for pbp, but manageable.

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Welcome!

Howdy!

Welcome akorn!

There are PbtA games on GP, not as common as D&D, but I've played in a few. In fact a Dungeon World one-shot game just started about a week ago. If you're itching to get started and you like the premise of the game, we can ask the GM, @Data, if we can find a way to add you to the story. You'd have to catch up a little bit, but we probably have space for one more adventurer in the party and we haven't gone very far yet so it shouldn't be too hard to catch up on what's happened so far. Let me know.

I'd like to give FitD a try sometime. I'm fully committed at the moment, but maybe later in the year.

Hey @akorn

Sorry for the delay. I've added you to the Tutorial game now. Let me know if you're having trouble finding anything

@akorn I’d be happy to have you join our Dungeon World game if you’re interested! I’m a new GM to DW and so I’m running a little oneshot experiment based on a D&D module.

The short pitch is: a terrible magic illness that turns people to ice has begun infecting the villages of The Greying Wildlands. Connected in some way to the town most infected (Nohme) the adventures set out though the frozen wilderness of Eiselcross in search of a research station that is said to have a cure - though the outposts have been out of contact with that station for some time...

Our adventurers so far are a very entertaining group. Mance Pyro, the Captain and Bard Conductor of the ship, The Symphony of Ice and Fire. Bonepipe, our flaming bagpipe playing Barbarian. And Teo, the shapeshifting Druid with reindeer antlers that follow them through their transformations.

Let me know if that sounds like something you’d want to try!

Thanks once more, all! @bowlofspinach, no worries—the post-winter holiday rush is a busy time and I was fine with a bit of a lead!

@Data, that sounds great! And with bowlofspinach’s gracious help I just learned how to put together a GP character sheet 🙏 When should I apply by? Just ASAP?

Hi akorn. I love the avatar. Very cool.

I hope you enjoy @bowlofspinach's tutorial game. I've heard good things about it.

Provided you're open to non-5e systems and you stay active on the forums and discord then it's usually easy to find a game here.

Welcome akorn.

While DnD is pretty much a thing we can understand, PbtA/FitD is a lot more nebulous. :)

What sort of games do you enjoy or are you looking for? You can always mention some books, TV, movies, or genres if you are not sure about game system names.

Thanks, you two! I love how hospitable everyone is here. ☺️

@vagueGM, my experience is largely with Dungeon World and Monster of the Week, and I love both. I’ve played a little bit of Blades in the Dark as well and loved the setting, which tends to be what attracts me to games.

My absolute favorite setting is Unknown Armies, a supremely dark and weird sort of post-modern urban fantasy. I like science-fantasy (Destiny 2 is my current favorite video game so I’ve been eyeing Light RPG from Gila RPGs as a way of making that tabletop-able), I love stuff that’s at least horror-flavored. Traditional fantasy and any subversions thereof are fun to play in, and I’m a big lore nerd so either crafting or learning it is very appealing to me.

I’m willing to try almost anything in the interest of learning its ropes, and once I’m climbing through the rigging at high friggin’ speeds I think PbP is one of the safer places to start GMing because a response need not be immediate—not to downplay what the GMs here and elsewhere do, of course, because it’s surely never a walk in the park… But you get what I mean I hope.

PbP comes with its own set of challenges. Not least of which is that games are designed with the assumption of sitting round a table (or a VTT, these days) and the GM needs to know the system well enough to make adjustments.

If you have a group of friends who you can play with, I highly recommend that as a way to learn to GM. People you know and trust, who are willing to support you are the best. Absent that, PbP might be easier than realtime strangers-on-the-internet, as, as you say, there is more time to think and plan.

Feel free to reach out for help --not only with GMing-- if you need. You are also welcome to join the (rather quiet at this time) PbtA GM's Round Table, for GMing stuff or practice.

Love that! Thanks for the heads up :)

Hello and welcome Akorn!