{"id":787,"date":"2008-12-10T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/rip-pbem-rpgs\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:26:31","slug":"rip-pbem-rpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/rip-pbem-rpgs\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. PBEM RPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/i230.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee34\/metalg0ds37\/RIP.jpg' alt='R.I.P.' title='R.I.P.' width=\"300\" style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" \/>I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/are-pbem-roleplaying-games-dead\/\">a blog<\/a> a week or so ago, bemoaning the scarcity of PBEM role-playing games. Well, I have looked high and low, and I am ready to call it: play-by-email roleplaying games are dead.<\/p>\n<p>They have largely been replaced by multiplayer computer games like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000O39QYO\/rpglibrary\">City of Heroes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000H96C9M\/rpglibrary\">World of Warcraft<\/a>. These are not role-playing games, but apparently they are an adequate replacement for most people.<\/p>\n<p>What few pitiful role-playing games are left aren&#8217;t played by email. They are played on forums and web sites. Some of these forums are reasonably well put together, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpol.net\/\">RolePlay OnLine<\/a>. Some are nightmarish monstrosities that make even the simplest task all but impossible, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostcoastgaming.com\/\">Lost Coast Gaming<\/a>, which is damned near unusable. Why do people prefer these sites to something like YahooGroups, which offers more functionality and is much easier to use? I am mystified.<\/p>\n<p>But it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, PBEM roleplaying. You will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a blog a week or so ago, bemoaning the scarcity of PBEM role-playing games. Well, I have looked high and low, and I am ready to call it: play-by-email roleplaying games are dead. They have largely been replaced by multiplayer computer games like City of Heroes and World of Warcraft. 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