We have a Play by Post (PbP) section and a fairly wide spread audience. Flykiller and atpollard are running games but there seems to be few players. On the flip side, other forums have dozens to hundreds of games going.
Why do people not join in PbP here and what can be done about it?
I started one called Dragon's Bane, where I was going to just shove the PCs into a D&D-ish environment, but it got sidetracked somehow. I tried rebooting it but one of the players didn't like the premise.
I started that thread because someone on this very forum between when it first opened in 2001 and 2004, or thereabouts, posted an experience he had with doing that very thing. And, admittedly, I had done so in the late 80s, though the results were never conclusive.
I'm not a D&D fan because unlike the supermajority of fantasy RPers, I've actually read Le Morte d'Arthur and the Canterbury Tales, as well as lots of other literature (Dover publications) on the period out of curiosity, and also research for a series I wanted to produce. And D&D, even though it's flatly based off European folklore, is so far off base on a lot of things regarding the medieval period, that I just shrug my shoulders at it. To me it smacks of someone wanting to be a scifi author but getting all their exposure to the genre via Star Wars. Still, the game, for a game that pioneered RPing as we know it, is fairly rich.
My whole concept was to pit guns and starships kind of guys against things like hordes of goblins, a rampaging troll, horse mounted bandits, and, as per the title, a dragon. I thought it would be really fun. It turned out not to be so.
*rant mode off*