Play by shared document instead of play by post
Hi,
Did anyone ever thought about, or even tried, running a game by writing a shared document together instead of posting to a forum?
I could imagine that interaction gets more lively if you can easily intersperse your contribution to a conversation in place instead of either quoting and quoting quotes or answering very specific so people know when exactly you might be interrupting or using a natural pause to through a sentence in between what others say.
Technically, Google Docs could work as a platform. The Storyteller would add directly to the text and control where and which changes from players would be included. I.e. he could maintain a "barrier" saying no further changes before this point in time, players would work with "suggestions" that have to be accepted by the storyteller, ooc and dice rolls could be done in comments.
An alternative could be Github, though I am not sure I am not sure the user experience of this software development tool would be appreciated by non software developers.
Any experience or willingness to gain experience with such an approach?
The systems I think would benefit are mainly conversation, intrigue, politics focused - I suppose combat heavy doesn't benefit as much. In particular I have the World of Darkness in mind (so Vampire, Demon,...) and Scion (which even has rules to adapt the past).
Best
Jan
This message had punctuation tweaked by a moderator, as it was the wrong forum, at 17:26, Wed 17 July 2019.