Wherein the Penny Arcade guys have a great idea…
It’s rare that excellent D&D ideas get generated from Twitter, primarily because of the word count… but today I was pleasantly surprised! Gabe over at Penny Arcade posted up this example of how their group does skill challenges in between sessions via email. I think this is a great idea, especially if you can engineer a situation where a little outside-the-session intrigue is in order.
He claims that their group ends up doing something like this almost every week and I think it’s a GREAT idea. In my old campaign, we would periodically do offline blog posts as our characters and I would provide a little roleplaying experience, but this takes the idea of online campaign content in a different way that I really think is cool.
Has anyone else tried doing this yet? How did it go for you? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
Play by post, basically. Which is great, if every player can be counted on to participate to a reasonable degree.
My group commonly bluebooks via e-mail but we’ve never done something like an actual skill challenge. I wonder what is the online rolling app he mentioned?