One of the disadvantages of being on the road all the time is the lack of ability to play Role-playing games with a steady group. After we are not in one place long enough to really play with a face to face group.

Of course there is the obvious solution of using one of the virtual table tops system. It is one I really thought about doing but once I got on the road I found that I really did not have as much time as I thought I would. I was not going to be able to play online once every week or even every other week. So this put me in a situation of what to do?

So, I decided to go back in time a bit and start up a play by email game with some of the players I had on Roll20. I was originally going to try to use the Roll20 forums for a setup game but the players were not getting notifications about posts. So, I decided to setup an actual mailing list. The upside for me being that I can easily check email via my smartphone anytime on the road and I can reply with it too.

The hardest thing was deciding on a system. It needed to be system lite for sure. After all, the Play-by Email was going to be a lot more heavy on Role-playing than dice rolling. After thinking about it a while, the final decision was to run Tremulus again. If nothing else, it provided a good story-telling foundation for the PbEM.

So far we have only gotten to the character creation and the first emails. I will post more as we play more and I will let you know how things go.