Kalirren
2013-10-05, 01:06 PM
While Kingmaker is a d20 module, I'm putting this in the general forum because this fundamentally isn't a question about d20 so much as it is about group management in a geographical sandbox campaign.
I'm running a Kingmaker game on this forum. Kingmaker is a sandbox module series. The modules start with the premise that the PCs are chartered to explore and chart certain wilderness. As such, it's up to the players to decide where they're going, and it's got rules for making distance over terrain, a hex grid...nice things.
Problem is, I'm trying to run this over PbP. If you were sitting down with a group, running this over a table, you could just pose the question, "Okay, where are you guys going?", and the players would probably decide in less than five minutes and give you an answer they'd be willing to run with. But as it stands, time zones are an issue. It takes my group at least one iRL day to even begin the discussion, and the process of deciding where they're going has evidently become a chore to them.
How should I manage this? My group already has membership problems, but this might just kill the game.
I'm running a Kingmaker game on this forum. Kingmaker is a sandbox module series. The modules start with the premise that the PCs are chartered to explore and chart certain wilderness. As such, it's up to the players to decide where they're going, and it's got rules for making distance over terrain, a hex grid...nice things.
Problem is, I'm trying to run this over PbP. If you were sitting down with a group, running this over a table, you could just pose the question, "Okay, where are you guys going?", and the players would probably decide in less than five minutes and give you an answer they'd be willing to run with. But as it stands, time zones are an issue. It takes my group at least one iRL day to even begin the discussion, and the process of deciding where they're going has evidently become a chore to them.
How should I manage this? My group already has membership problems, but this might just kill the game.