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Last night I came to a realization. Because of our fancy new D&D dice rolling system we have built into the forums now, we are capable of doing more types of games without having to use the honor system or a host that does everyone's moves for them. Anyone who has access to Photoshop or any similar program has the ability to host most popular board games in a forum setting by just using an image of the board as the background, and having a separate layer for each player's token that they can move around and update a thread with. I imagine it would probably go about the same pace as our current D&D games are going, and a lot of games could probably even work with the host playing as well.
So this is basically me just throwing it out there and gauging interest in such a thing, regardless of whether I or someone else wants to host. I've run both Monopoly and Mario Party games like this in the past and it worked pretty well. The former we actually finished because it was over a voice call (still took HOURS). The latter I ran on the old site once or twice with like 10 people and never got very far because of inactivity, but it was fun at the time and I would be interested in trying it again. For that one, though, we'd need to come up with enough mini-games that could work on a forum. But I feel like the possibilities are pretty vast for this sort of thing. Maybe Betrayal at House on the Hill could work?
So this is basically me just throwing it out there and gauging interest in such a thing, regardless of whether I or someone else wants to host. I've run both Monopoly and Mario Party games like this in the past and it worked pretty well. The former we actually finished because it was over a voice call (still took HOURS). The latter I ran on the old site once or twice with like 10 people and never got very far because of inactivity, but it was fun at the time and I would be interested in trying it again. For that one, though, we'd need to come up with enough mini-games that could work on a forum. But I feel like the possibilities are pretty vast for this sort of thing. Maybe Betrayal at House on the Hill could work?
