We can always use Roll20 to look for groups to play online, however we may want to have a way for people to look for groups to play in person throughout the world.
I propose we have an official looking for group thread, much like the reddit subreddit r/lfg, except specific to 7th Sea since not all of us use Reddit.
List if you are looking for people to join in a game online or offline, if you are starting a 1st edition or 2nd edition campaign, the campaign stipulations, or if you are just looking for fellow 7th Sea players in your area.
The same time you might want to list planned schedule for games or if the game will be play-by-post on a forum (and I'm sure there will be a sub-forum here for play-by-post at some point), or if you plan to determine this later once there are enough players on board.
Seth Woolwine, the idea is interesting and a suggestion for a voting system to signify interest in a game is doable.
We can even have special game play threads based off the "Blog template" with comments restricted to players only.
We could make the sessions viewable by all or make them private. We can also have this Game Schedule thread list links to Roll20.net for the online sessions.
And now for the big questions: how do we protect personal privacy if a group prefers to play in person and meets in someone's house?
I can post a warning with suggestions to meet in public venues for the games instead, since nobody's address is saved here. With strangers the importance of clubs becomes obvious.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
I would think that people mention at the very least what city they reside in and when they agree on a game can work out privately how to contact one another.
It is difficult to find a public venue to host a TTRPG. My city has one such place with these kind of meetings in mind(it's a geek themed bar), but those are not exactly common.
I know our local Dennys doesn't care if we have our TTRPG there. Usually we end up ordering some dinner at some point, but some of us only order a drink, and we can game there all night, being it is 24 hours. Their are also Game stores aplenty around me. Waffle House is a tad harder, given the fact that they usually are smaller and have a smaller table, but not undoable (played CCG's there a few time with some friends.). Then, their are always Libraries that I have gamed at.
Here is a brief overview of the plan so far.
(a) A calendar content type to list out events and generic locations (please avoid specifics over privacy concerns).
(b) A Signup system for interested parties to signup and receive notifications when the events are about to start.
(c) Recommended links for online events (personal face-to-face meetups are outside the scope of this fansite).
(d) Maybe a simple journaling system for those who want to play-by-post at 7thSea2e.com (we will enable a chat client too).
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
Yep. All of those things.
I do allot of Post by post RP's.... if you got a good dedicated group, or a time to meet up, they can work really well, but on the site I usually do it on, games come and go, players flake, GM's vanish... it is rather annoying sometimes.
But the rest sounds really solid. Chat clients are always good too :)
Another thought, since profiles aren't up yet: Add a field/checkbox/something to the profile form for "looking for group" or "willing to GM" or some such.
There's also the simple option of a forum section where people can post things like "Hey, I'm in the greater metro {city} area, anyone else around here looking to get a group together?" If enough people respond, they can then contact each other back channel to work out details. No extra work needed on the admin's part :-).
Morgan Wolfe
aka Capt. Doña Sir Kestrel of Avalon http://silver-gateway.com/7sea/
Play by post sounds really good! The chat client sounds great too.
We may have to freeze new features as the site will require an upgrade if we keep adding new features. ;-)
Anyway, we have a preview of "Meetups" in the lefthand sidebar.
Meetups can also be accessed via the summary page here: http://www.7thsea2e.com/port/meetup
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
"Meetups" are only available to those of you who applied for the "GM" role.
On the top black navbar you will see the "add content" and the "Meetup for Games" option there. Enjoy!
All players can register by voting and posting comments. I will find a way to reveal the votes to the GMs.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
Any movement on the Play-By-Post front?
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
- H.L. Mencken
We have the "Meetups" on the left navbar that offers a date for Meetups and comments for players to run a rudimentary Play-by-Post. I have a Chat Client ready, but the current server may not be able to cope. I suggested donations to support an upgrade, but there seems to be a lack of interest in donations. Ha ha ha! Anyway, when I get paid this month, I may invest my money in the upgrade regardless (so in about a week, we will get new servers). I just wish we got some recognition of all these efforts and the contributions of fans here by John Wick and crew.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
I notice there is not a way to add new Meet Ups to the list.....yet..... Until then will mention to fellow 7th Sea players that I live in Milwaukee so if there are others interested in joining a game come release of the core rule book I will be more than happy to run an adventure.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
So, for those who don't know: http://www.gamersplane.com is a play by post site that has character sheet support for 7th Sea 2nd edition. A lot of us have already started a few games there and another game has just started recruiting. You can find it on the Games Tavern forum there.
Calendars for Game Meetups have been activated, finally.
On the right hand navbar you will see "GenCon" this August, but in future it will be "Meetups".
Enjoy! And hope to see you all representting at Gen Con 2016.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e