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[RoseHeart]

Hello, I am looking for all the best places to play and host play-by-post, aka forum games.

So far I know of:

Highly Active (9) ★ ♥♥♥

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About 20 or more active threads daily.

Bay 12 ★
Forum Games and Roleplaying
Restrictions: May take days to process registration and gain access.

BleepingComputer
Forum Games

Crunchyroll
Forum Games

Giant in the Playground ♥
Ongoing Games (In-Character)
Restrictions: Must have 10 posts to post links/images.

Space Battles
Roleplaying & Quests

NationStates ♥
Portal to the Multiverse

Novel Updates
Community Games

Sufficient Velocity ♥
Roleplaying

TVtropes
Forum Games Conversations
Restrictions: No images.

Moderately Active (5) ★★ ♥♥♥

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About 5 to 20 active threads daily.

GameFAQs ★
Games-N'-Things
Restrictions: No editing posts after 1 hour. This specific board is private, visit link while logged in to request invitation.

MafiaScum ★ ♥
The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

Pokemon Reborn ♥
Roleplaying

Realax ♥
Forum Games, Competitions
(Russian)

xkcd
Forum Games

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About 5 or less active threads daily.

Armor Games (Not working?)
Forum Games

Coloholics Anonymous (How active?)
Fun and Games
Restrictions: Log in to view threads.

Kongregate
Forum Games forum

Species ALRE Forums ♥
Forum Games

Storm8 (How active?)
(Dedicated to Forum Games)
Restrictions: Log in to view threads.

Nuzlocke Forums ♥
Role Playing Games

RPG Codex ♥
Codex Playground

Video Game Forums
Social Games and Role Playing

Disclaimer: Forums with few active threads, may be highly active within them.

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If there are multiple areas, which would a Bay 12 user find most familiar? At this time this list is just to get people's foot in the door.

If your post is informative I will link to it, too. And if you've tried one of these, tell us what you think!

[Tack]

Actually P-ingTW on this. Could use a site which is a little more forgiving to my timetable.

[freeformschooler]

giant in the playground has (or used to have, last I checked) a huge play by post section

it was primarily tabletop rpgs due to the nature of the site

[Felissan]

Mafiascum has (in addition to the whole mafia section, obviously) a pretty active forum game section, where the overall trends are game-show-inspired trivia and - more relevant in your case, I suppose - strategy games, which can be further divided into large social games a la Survivor and smaller mind-game-heavy games. There's also a multiplayer text adventure that has been going pretty strong for about two months now, though it's really more of an exception.
Also, unlike here, successful short games tend to do pretty well in signups for reiterations.

[S34N1C]

Man, I figured I would sign up for a few of these, so I started with GameFAQ, but honestly at first glance that forum isn't very user friendly. You can't even post at first.

Also, Pokemon Reborn has a roleplaying forum, but it's a very small community

[RoseHeart]

^Very true.

[RoseHeart]

Going to add Coloholics Anonymous. I don't know much about it, it was recommended to me by Eevee from Space Battles. But it seems comparable to Games N Things, they have fancy banners.(Yeah I totally don't know what to say about it)

[RoseHeart]

Giant in the Playground seems down a lot.

[Screech9791]

I've heard that Nuzlocke Forums has some good forum games.
One of my favorite forum games there, Land Wars V, I got kicked out of over my discord getting hacked, but the rest of the forum game hosts there show some decency.

[crazyabe]

PTW.

[RoseHeart]

While we're at it I'll share a secret cookie of mine. You'll have a hell of a time trying to host your own game but you might be able to join something they've got going easy enough. It's a really small community but that's not always bad.

"video game forums" http://vgf.com

Codex Playground

I think the entire category known as 'Codex Playground' is fair game, BUT they do have a specific ad hoc section for quests, called CYOA Land.NationStates.net. The quest/RTD/SG community is small, but they have done these kinds of games before. Perhaps a trend can be set on NS?

[RoseHeart]

Found this interesting, Kongregate divides them into "Forum Games" and "Continuous Games".

[KittyTac]

Kong is composed 99% of 7 year olds and they're my personal pet peeve. Glory to Bay12!

[Paxiecrunchle]

The species ALRE forums have some nice stuff in terms of forum games, if you like civilization and evolution based games. Main problem is they are underpopulated. Perhaps 90 people was the maximum number who were ever online at once.
 
http://www.speciesgame.com/forum/index.php

[TalonisWolf]

PTW