I'm wondering if anyone has successfully run a DitV (or varient) PbP game. I'm putting together a varient game and want to try it out before running it in person. Anyone with experience have any tips or tricks to make it successful?
I ran a game that went great, all things considered.
http://dndorks.com/forums/thread/788532.aspx (http://dndorks.com/forums/thread/788532.aspx)
My main problem was slow players holding up the game. Because of that, many of the conflicts were probably too "big", but I didn't want to draw one scene out into a three week project. Eventually I lost all of my players and had to just end it. Sad. At least it was close to the "end" though.
The forum we used had built-in dice-rollers which were helpful, as well as a couple of formatting tools to separating IC and OOC and metagame information, but if you have an external dice-roller, or you just trust your players, you could certainly do without them.
The hardest part, I think, is getting people to understand the basic dice rules. If you can get that out of the way in person, or in chat, before the PBP, that will probably be useful.