To further improve the Play by Post Role-Playing Game experience hosted on-site, Myth-Weavers Games has released four new character sheets for various gaming systems. The sheets released include:

I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone has picked up the reins for PBeM.com - I missed it sorely.

Barb, of Amazing Pit Bull Designs has created a new site to help online players advertise or find a game. I like the set up much more than the original PBeM.com. It's terribly easy to use, and everything is laid out in an efficient format.

So you want to run a Play-by-Post RPG?
-Part 2- "Keep it Simple, Stupid"

You may want to get really fancy with storylines and add a whole slew of different genres and influences to game-play, but you need to think small. Don’t bite off more than you can chew, and don’t let you eyes become bigger than your belly. It’s alright to have ambitions, that’s what’s keeping this type of play going, whereas Play-by-chat hasn’t had a facelift in some time, and it’s starting lose popularity over types of play that allow more room for thought and ‘thinking ahead’ instead of constant flaming in a chat room (Play-by-chat isn’t all bad though). Start with a really basic concept, easy rules, easy character creation and a quick transition into game-play. The goal is after a person signs up they need to be able to make a character and ideally be playing same-day. If not you could lose potential new members. This is usually where Play-by-post games die, they don’t get started. There are a lot of good ideas for games floating around out there; the problem is there aren’t enough players to go around –even if you’re doubling up.