I'm interested, too.  I'm normally a play-by-post junkie, but I've been letting my boards slide a bit lately obsessing over my shiny new DFRPG pdfs.  XD

I've none traditional RPGs before, (Star Wars, D&D, OWoD, etc) but this Fate stuff seems really alien to me.  I can't wait to try it out.  Anyone here have any experience with Spirit of the Century or FATE?

Is this still happening?  The board seems to be, uh... "resting."

But really, it's more like a collaborative writing effort. We're all conversing, discussing all the things we do and brainstorming (via private messages, instant messanger, etc.). Like I said before, usually only a few people have all the pieces of the puzzle while everyone else has a handful that the others don't. Keeps everyone interested. Theoretically, anyway; it's been slow lately aside from the solo stuff.

That's the way my two favorite boards are right now.  When I'm talking about it I usually call it "collaborative fiction" because, face it, it sounds a lot less dorky to mundanes than "roleplaying game".  I've got a good group now that not only pitches ideas and plans where the story's headed, but can also pick up and run with subtle cues from each other's IC posts.  It's taken me years to find writers with the right...let's call it 'chemistry,' for lack of a better word.  Now, I want it to happen again, with brand new people. 

KW, you sound like you're pretty on the ball.  Concider me totally not "put off" any longer . 

BTW, I understand your concerns about Faeries and I share them.  The challenge of their limitations is exactly why they seem like an attractive prospect to me.  Well, that and the opportunity to take a well known figure from folklore like Jenny Greenteeth or the Leanaunsidhe and stick 'em in a hard-boiled detective story (That is SO wrong. I wish I'd thought of it first).  But I'm not sold on anything, yet.  The brain is leaping in many directions.  I won't have a character until it settles down.

If the story and players are good I don't care if we have to post our Social Security numbers at the top of every post.    

I think Brodie and I are probably coming from a similar type experience and we're just as set in our "RP" ways as you are in your "simming" ways.  No worries.  We just get out of our comfortable ruts and try something new.

On most boards where I've played, a story would play out in several threads, each of which would be set in a different location in the gameworld represented by subforums on the board.  When a character enters a thread, the player generally notes the location/title of the thread they're entering from and does the same should they leave for another thread.  So, looking at your book keeping info block from my rut... er... perspective, it presents a jarring break in the narrative as I read a thread.  However, I understand now that in your sims you keep all the In Character posts in one thread, regardless of a character's location in the story.  In that case, that info block seems vital.  Without it, reading the posts of a "split party" or about things happening at different times would make my head hurt.  So, I'm cool with it. 

I liked Eureka, but I'm always at work when it's on, so I rarely get to see it.  If they'd put Eureka, Doctor Who, and Dresden Files on together on Sunday, I would be a very very happy fan.   In fact, I might change the quickname I have in my hotmail address book for the Sci Fi channel from "Pinheads" to something a little more flattering.  (I emailed them steadily for about a week once upon a time to get The Chronicle back).  I don't watch much TV these days.  I catch Dresden on Sunday and whatever half hour anime catches my fancy on Saturday.  That's pretty much it. 

   I'll trade you a kidney for an advance copy.  Non-drinker--the thing's barely been used. 

I work at Borders North East Distribution Center.  If you live on the East Coast of the US and you shop at Borders, there's a chance your new copy of White Night passed through my hands and since it wasn't written by John Edward, I promise I didn't sneeze in it.   

I read the backs of a couple of Jim's paperbacks on slow nights at work, but didn't start devouring them until I caught a couple episodes of the show and said to myself "Damn, I wish this was better."  The books ARE better.  The books are exactly what I wanted them to be- fun pulpy fantasy noir that keeps you turning the pages until you run out.  I only wish they were longer.  I tend to read them in one or two sittings (My weekends utterly belong to Harry). 

Don't get me wrong.  I DO like the show.  It's not great.  I tear every episode apart as I watch it, but I NEVER miss one.  I like the hockey stick of doom and the drum stick blasting rod.  (They remind me of Changeling: The Dreaming.  What better way to hide the fantastic than under such a mundane 'seeming.')  I was a Bob fan from the moment Terence Mann uttered the words "Where there's kids, there's snot."   

The show just can't hold a candle to the books.  I've read the first three (which, given my tasty discount I technically didn't pay for.)  Right now, I'm trying very hard not to read Dead Beat.  I picked it up early because it was actually THERE and because I was hooked by the chapters posted online.  I've since decided I should read them in order.  I can do this.  I'm sure the shakes and the cold sweats will pass.   

I'm also eagerly awaiting the RPG.  I doubt I'll ever find anyone IRL who'll play it, but I admit I'm searching the net every week for some inkling of when it will come out.  I've promised myself I'm NOT buying another game that I'll never get to play and I haven't since 1999.  For the Dresden Files, I have to make an exception.   *wipes drool off keyboard*  I love this world of Jim's and the brain wants to play in it.