Feel free to owl me if you do.  I use the same username as I do here on the forums. 

sounds interesting, though I admit that specifically rp based games aren't as much my thing, sinse if I'm going to rp I'd rather do it live with other people as in fact I do each saturday.

How do the various classes work? and to what extent do items and such matter in the game if most is forums and rp?

Ah, this makes a litle more sense now, actually the classes do sound rather interesting and maybe I'll look into this.

I've not included forum based rp games in the database uptonow, (I know of another called ramath lehee), but if this game also has several in game elements to it as it sounds it possibly could do with an entry.

Here's the link the for ramath-lehi

It's a forum based rp game, with skills and such, though how similar it is to hogwarts extreme I'm not sure.

As to roleplay, the game I play each week is indeed a tabletop game with a number of friends (pencil and paper is a bit missleading sinse both myself and the game master use laptops).

actually it's one of the most accessible forms of entertainment there is, sinse many rp books are available as pdfs, but even if not, most games are not particularly difficult to pick up and play if you have familiarity with how rp stat systems and such generally work, ---- indeed many sited players don't read rule books but rely on friends as well.

I have my character sheet on my laptop, and also use gma dice to roll dice for combat etc, but most of the game is simply speaking as your character and saying what he/she does.

I ran into this group through a friend of a friend, and have been playing mutants and masterminds with them for a good while now.

mutants wouldn't have been my first choice of game sinse I'm not usually a superhero fan, but it's actually been a lot of fun, ---- we've even got a major event on for saturday which should be interesting.

it's a shame there aren't more groups around, or ways of putting people in touch with local rp groups generally.

You could do it over skype though, provided of course that everyone had a mike and could voice chat so as to keep things live and flowing.

Yes, the game does have a Quidditch component.  I haven't tried it though.  It has a bunch of rules and seems to be based off of RP and dice as thrown by the referees!

Hi Harrison,
I could send those to you via skype, although there are so many files you'd be at your computer for awhile. I could zip them, perhaps...

Hmm, this could be very interesting. I've got that RP blood in me, so I will love this! Hope to see you guys on there!
Edit: Where is the registration link? I don't see it anywhere.

Please can someone tell me where this sorting hat is pleaaaaaaseeee that makes me mad?

Moderation!

Burak, tripple posting really isn't! good. I'm actually getting a little sick of people pretending they can ignore the posting rules on this. now it is in the faq and official. Please do! not! do this again.

Okay that over, I have no idea on this one. I've never been a forum rp fan, and I'm not even sure such things would count in the db or not, sinse afterall you can pretty much rp anywhere with text so we'd be adding a lot of random stuff for no reason. I'd be willing to listen to other opinions though.

Myself, I just think nothing compares rp wise to a real, live,human gm in real time, who can work with just a few characters, make stories about them, play all those unimportant but crytical npcs like shopkeepers, bystanders and such, and also introduce twists to the tale or unexpected things.

This could quite probably work over live voice chat such as skype, provided there was a limited number of players with a committed gm, and it may work through text chat, but in mmorp settings it just seems to me there are too many people wanting to be heroes, with no npcs who aren't the heroes, and nobody writing specific stories about anybody, not to mention general problems of player inequalities.

"So I pull out my sword and slash him"

"aaaah, but I dive out the way and look really cool doing it, and I do a forward roll and dive to my feet knocking you out with one uppercut"

"Ah, but you don't, because I'm a really good swordsman, ---- look at my skill, and so i'M TOO FAST for you and just cut you!"

"no! because I'm just too awesome for that!"

I've actually seen these sorts of arguements, where two players both! want to be the center of attention. This would never happen with a gm, sinse the gm would be quite happy with one player getting the best of one of his/her npcs, ---- but with no gm it just doesn't seem to work.

This is why myself I'm not too interested in rp online in a mmorp, and so only interact with the mmorp for what the actual game can give me from a single player perspective, quests, places to explore, monsters to fight, single player story etc.

I will say blindncool, if you haven't tried it already, you should deffinately try tabletop rp. I play mutants and masterminds each wednesday, in a campaign that's run now for over two years, with four other players and a gm, and that's been fantastic even though I'm not normally much of a fan of the superhero genre.

all of our characters have plot, as well as on going in character plots involving npc friends, lovers or companions, all of our characters have had sessions and episodes that focus uniquely! on them, and we have so many connections and different factions it's sometimes hard to keep track of who does what, but makes for awesome mystery!

my character for instance is a concer pianist, who is very intelligent but not very wise, but happened to find an iron man style battle suit which he had no idea how to use, but which sort of insisted on being his. It turns out the suit was manufactured in ancient egypt to protect a magical city, ---- built also by someone who's a reincarnation of one of the campaign villains.

the suit's own Ai is actually an npc, and my character has had lots of arguements with it throughout the campaign.

To make life even more interesting, there's now an evil double version of my character running around from the alternate evil dimention (we desposed of all our other evel doubles, but he got away), who himself has the same suit, and is apparently planning to try to become a god.

playing an intelligent fighter is also really nice too. I'm the group's main tank, and one of the main hitters in combat, also I have the best selection of weaponry for different situations.

What is fun in fights however is making up interesting ways to use those weapons. So for instance my suit has rocket powered grenades. Last session we were being chased by a massive army who cornered us on a hill.

I then buried several grenades to act as mines, ---- which meant as the army walked over them, ---- boooom!

That was fun!

Our group also is distinctly different, we have the avatar of a sun god, with various light, mind and magic powers, a half faery who is badly mixed up with fae politics, but has even more!  mind and illusion powers as well as talking to plants and animals, a warrior angel from heaven, and an army captain who's a steam punk style super scientist!

it's just this sort of randomness and interest in plot which you get with a human gm who is prepared to tell the story about the players' party, which I've not yet seen on any mmorp or mud.

Hi Paddy,
What is hogwarts live? What do you do in it? Also, do they banne users for no reasons? They tell you that you have banned but they don't tell the reason.