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[RoseHeart]

I guess I made a list like this before.

[Draxis]

Sufficient Velocity actually has 3 forum game boards: Quests, Roleplaying, and Grand Strategy Roleplaying. It's worth linking all of them because they're all a different type of game.

[RoseHeart]

Off the three, which would a Bay 12 user find most familiar? At this time this list is just to get people's foot in the door.

[Draxis]

Probably Roleplaying.

[KittyTac]

I figure Grand Strategy Roleplaying is for games similar to SpaceStory or Legends of Ealos?

[Draxis]

I figure Grand Strategy Roleplaying is for games similar to SpaceStory or Legends of Ealos?

Kind of like SpaceStory - mostly it's a very specific style of game, basically the AlternateHistory.net forum game culture from before it was was expelled from that site, where people control an entire state and write chunks of RP for multiple characters belonging to it and events it carries out. Other types of game, even the ones that could also be described as "grand strategy roleplay," tend to end up in the Quest or RP boards.

[MeimieFan88]

PTW

Also, a forum my friend showed me a while ago: https://forum.novelupdates.com/forums/community-games.1022/
I've yet to do much over there, but it seems fairly active.

[RoseHeart]

Added. Thx

[RoseHeart]

Here is my review/intel for GameFAQs:

Disclaimer: I was active here a few years ago. Some things have changed. Biggest being GameSpot merger.

I believe most, if not all forums and posts are mirrored on both sites. GameSpot is more content rich, so if you like to see people's avatars that's the place to go.

In general GameFAQs is very minimal. Which in some ways is good, especially if you're a new game host. There is no font color and only basic things like bold, italic, ect. Uses < > instead of [ ]. They did add image posting, which was after my time there.

Pretty much any active forum can and does have forum games. There is a forum for every published game virtually, and new and classic game boards stay active. For example, I hosted a lot of RPGs on Super Smash Bros Wii U Board, months(years?) before the game came out.

The moderation really wants you to stay on topic, so games in these places need to be especially relevant. For example a Smash Bros Mafia was permitted, but a Smash Bros kingdom game was removed.

There are "safe havens", secret boards and private boards among them.

The most vanilla option is Roleplaying and Fanfiction, though activity is minimal, but viable. I have never done anything here.

EVERYBODY PANIC is a place where everyone *Panics* and avoids THE PIT where IT lives. There are a lot of random improv battle threads, design a floor of a tower games, occasionally fend EP from IT threads, and they were open to a forum game or two I tried there. Love it.

Then the meat and potatoes(and unfortunately, private) is Games-N'-Things. Anything goes. Very active. Great people.
UPDATE: Found out you can go to the GnT link when logged in to send invite request!

[Rockeater]

PTW,I will need to check a strategy game in one of them

[Solifuge]

Eagle-Time is a community that hosts content, and networks many smaller communities that the MSPA forums spawned some years back. It's a home for original suggestions games and interactive fiction projects, comics, creative and artistic projects, game design, and plenty of goofy internet culture stuff. Their Mafia and forum game community is currently experiencing a bit of a revival, and a lot of big projects that used to be hosted on the MSPA forums found a new home there as well. All in all, pretty chill group of folks. I'd definitely recommend checking them out, if you like well-crafted interactive fiction stuff!

[KittyTac]

Realax - Deserves an honorable mention, but it's in Russian (even though it was apparently made in Ukraine). You can use Google Translate or something. It's big enough to run a SpaceStory-sized game but small enough for it to easily gain traction.

[RoseHeart]

Just found this.*

It was the top pick on a new search engine I've been trying.

*Addit: Interesting Survey

[FakerFangirl]

Thanks for the list!
I mean... BAY12 #1!!!

[RoseHeart]

My pleasure!