Comparison of different PbP sites that offer 3.5e games?

[Gavinfoxx]

Hey there, I was wondering what people thought of the various different play by post sites that tended to offer 3.5e D&D games? What was good, what was bad about these different forums as far as getting your PbP on? Thanks!

http://www.dndonlinegames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=280
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/campaigns/recruitment
http://www.myth-weavers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=141&sy=3
http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?13-Recruiting-Office-Find-and-Post-New-Games
http://www.enworld.org/forum/gamers-seeking-gamers/
http://forum.rpg.net/forumdisplay.php?32-Recruitment-and-Meta-Threads
http://www.unlimitedrpgs.com/forums2/viewforum.php?f=131
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?board=20.0

And of course:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=51

Also, are there any active webpages that I have missed?

[JeminiZero]

There is also plothook (http://plothook.net/RPG/index.php).

[Duke of URL]

I like RPoL (http://www.rpol.net), personally. Especially since it is a site designed specifically for PbP games, and not an add-on to a general forum system like many of the others.

Each game is essentially its own forum with the ability to support multiple characters per player, full private messaging system (and private lines in posts), support for multiple groups whose threads can be hidden from each other, support for multiple languages in the same game (players not granted access to a language will see gibberish instead), etc.

Now, because I get assigned a character in whatever game I'm playing, when I post, it isn't as "Duke of URL", in that game it happens to be "Gronk", or whatever other character name I'm using, complete with its own portrait/avatar. Far more immersive than trying to remember which player has which character, especially in larger groups.

It's not 3,5 (or Pathfinder) centric, however. There are many 3.x games, but quite a few other systems used as well. For example, I'm running a series of games using the Fiasco semi-freeform system (http://rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=51403) in addition to the collection of 3.x D&D games, and am also in an admittedly very slow-moving adaptation of a LARP game called The Dragon of Feldra (http://rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=50847).

[Gavinfoxx]

Keep em coming! I never heard of those.. Any more sites?

[eluria]

There's also the WotC forums:
Real adventures (http://community.wizards.com/realadventures/go/forum/viewboard)

and for a slightly different take on PbP, there's the Core Coliseum (http://community.wizards.com/coco/go/forum/viewboard) - not so much RP/PbP, although you can get that, but weekly pairings of PvP (or PvMonster) -- the nice thing is it happens every week, without fail, and it never fails/closes/DM vanishes/etc; the RP is what you make of it, but characters can get pretty fleshed out and developed, and it has a great community.