How do you play Birthright?

[Elton Robb]

A lot of people are attracted to PBeMs. How do you feel about playing Birthright? As a wargame, or for roleplaying? This poll is to see how you all feel about playing Birthright.

[epicsoul]

Table top is best, but if I can't get that for whatever reason (moved a fair bunch in the last decade), then would go for pbem.

[tpdarkdraco]

I prefer face to face gaming especially when you are playing on an adventuring level. I DM so face to face adventuring is the only option in my opinion for this style.

I have played a couple of PBEM on the tactical/domain side of things and Birthright works great in this format. Diplomacy with other nations is done with emails, which simulates sending messangers. When you have at least a dozen players it is really interesting on how things play out.

[Sorontar]

I do face-to-face adventuring once a month for 6-8 hours. While some planning amongst the party is done via email as well as private messages to the DM, it wouldn't work in any other form for me. I don't have the time to do any PBEM, chatroom, or other form, especially since they don't all work as well for adventuring.

Regency work is mainly left to the background and used as plot devices, partially influenced by what plots the party manages to start or stop. We are a party, not generals, so the only wargaming is us trying to get away or through armies, not defeat them.

Sorontar

[irdeggman]

Face-to-face.

I like interactive role-playing vice roll playing.

It is very difficult to role-play in a PBeM game.

[Nameless One]

A region-wide or Cerilia-wide "To Each His Throne" game can only be effectively played as a PBeM.

I'm currently preparing a "Common Heroes" campaign with possibility to turn into "Collective Rule" or "High King" game for my group. I haven't tried this before and I hope it will turn out interesting.

[Capricia]

Face-to-face.

I like interactive role-playing vice roll playing.

It is very difficult to role-play in a PBeM game.

I would humbly disagree. I find role playing via PBEM to be easy. Then again, I'm a writer, so for me PBEM's are just a way of creating dynamic and complex stories told by more than one author.

I will admit that only works when you have like minded PBEM players. When they want to play risk and roll the dice, then there's no story to be told.

I can't find a group to play face to face with anymore. We all grew up, got jobs and kids and can't manage to find time to all be together at the same time. Yet another reason I hate being a grown up

[Lee]

Both PbEM for the regent-level stuff, over the table for adventuring. So far, my local player-group prefers a non-regent game for FtF gaming.

[Green Knight]

Hmm...actually, for P&P we have quite a bit of domain play, but it tends to get very abstracted very quickly. Number-crunching isn't much fun...role-playing is

[geeman]

I`ve played in PBeMs before, but I prefer gaming across a table
top. I`ve always thought one of the coolest possibilities for BR,
though, was that one could run a PBeM and use the events of that game
as background/framework of a table top campaign at the adventure
level, so if some player out in the world somewhere is playing Diemed
and he invades Medoere then that`s what would happen in the tabletop
game too, and PCs would interact with those events. Similarly, PCs
in the tabletop game might influence the PBeM through their actions,
which would become the equivalent of random events at the domain level.

The only thing that keeps me from actually doing something like that
is the massive amount of time such a dual project would
require. However, one could be a player in a PBeM and use those
events as the basis for a tabletop game one was DMing.... It`d still
be a lot of work. I`ve never actually tried it but I`ve been
intrigued by the potential for a long time.

Gary