Some of our best tips for PBEM game owners
If you created a roleplaying game on OngoingWorlds or anywhere else, you know that it’s not an easy task to fill the game with players and manage a storyline that keeps everyone happy, and also develop a community. Here’s some tips that you might find useful:
Rules & how your game should work
- Limitation & Penalty vs Complication and Consequence
- IC actions and IC consequences: A critique
- Enhancing collaborating storytelling with open roleplaying
- 10 rules for simming – from Kepler Station
Managing characters
Encouraging your players & developing your community
- Compliment your writers
- The importance of “Yes, and…”
- There’s nothing better than encouragement
- Keeping your players in the loop & developing your community
- How to write a newsletter for your roleplaying game
- 3 ways to reward your players with prizes
Dealing with difficult players
- Dealing with powerful roleplay characters
- If I toss you out an airlock, yes, you will die
- How to tell a Mary Sue to stop Mary Suing
Planning stories
- So you’ve traveled back in time – Now what?
- Characters who give your players quests
- 11 things to think about before starting a time travel plot
