So with school wrapping up for the semester I have a lot more free time and I have been tossing around the idea for a massive dungeon in my head. I have been reading a lot of the articles out there about megadungeons and their design and have been particularly intrigued by the idea of a dungeon as a mythic underworld. I have never run this sort of thing before, I typically run games in a sandbox setting I have been tinkering with for a few years but I have got bored of it here lately.

At the moment I have no gaming group but I have the itch to run something and I would like to try my hand at play by post. I have wanted to run a play by post game for awhile now but I have never got around to it. So this is a general interest check to see if anyone is interested in playing in this sort of game with a GM who is new to play by post.

The system I have the most experience running is OD&D but I would be willing to branch out and run one of the retro clones, I also have wanted to run Dragons at Dawn for awhile.

I am still in the process of fleshing my idea out and building up the area around the dungeon so it would be a week or so before I would be ready to run anything. Again since I have no group at the moment I checking to see if anyone would be interested in playing before I even continue working on this.

Since I am still designing things I am open to input as to things potential players don't like to see.

I would definitely be interested, I've only got experience with Labyrinth Lord but would be willing to give something else a try for a megadungeon.  Also have no experience with play-by-post, but plenty with face to face play.

EDIT:  I don't like my PC to be invincible.  Apart from that, I'm easy.

I would be happy to participate and contribute to the game and new experience for those who haven't played in a PbP game before.  

Sounds like a fun game.
I am up for any rules I can get for free, from Mini Six to any of the clones.

Wow. I had forgotten that I had posted this, but I am still up for it. I just got done moving so give me a few days to get everything unpacked and find my notes and what not. I am good with any of the clones, say labyrinth lord, would that work for everyone?

Yeah, I'm cool with Labyrinth Lord.  

Ahh!  Thought you'd ditched this, I'm definitely still up for it, and love Labyrinth Lord. AEC or the basics?  I'm on British Summer Time, hopefully this won't cause problems?

I just downloaded the lot of LL I found on their site, so I am ready to go.

Lets just stick with the basic LL on this as I am not as familiar with the AEC. I am certainly still interested in running this I just had forgot that I had posted it in the hustle and bustle of moving.

I need to finish unpacking my gaming stuff because all of my notes are in packed in with it, should not take that long but just to play it safe and make sure I don't have you guys waiting on me I will say that I will be ready to begin play by Wednesday. In all honesty I will likely have everything squared away before then but I would rather overestimate than underestimate.

I don't see how the time difference should be too much of an issue but just to make sure everyone is in the loop I am on U.S. Central Time. Do you guy want to shoot for daily posting or go for a few specific days a week? I can do either but having a few set days a week might be easier for everyone.

I'm good with daily turn posting or Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or whatever you decide oh mighty Lord of the Labyrinth.

How shall we roll em up?

Hmm, I would be good with Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, easier than posting everyday but often enough to keep the pace up. We should probably wait for everyone to chime in on that though. As to character creation, standard 3d6 in order.

How do we want to handle rolls? I trust everyone to make their own, but if anyone else is concerned I don't mind doing all the rolling. I am also open to any other ideas. I am new to play by post so I am not sure as to the best way to handle this.

I kind of like http://rolz.org/ for dice rolling.  If you like you can even make a room we can all access and we can see each other's rolls (though I keep forgetting the link for the H&H game I am in.)

I just made a room called "LL Character Roll Ups" for our use and I'm gonna go make my rolls and see what's he gonna be.

 Chugosh: 3D6 => 14
Chugosh: 3D6 => 10
Chugosh: 3D6 => 8
Chugosh: 3D6 => 12
Chugosh: 3D6 => 10
Chugosh: 3D6 => 11

Fighter? Hmm. maybe Elf?
Only the numbers seem to say Fighter more.

Chugosh: 1D8 => 3
Crap.  2 hp.
This will be brief.

Well thats pretty neat, we can use that for sure. Hmm good STR roll but bad CON, tough to say what to do with him. You could do a decent elf maybe.

I went with Fighter.  Rolled crappy HP, but I'm willing to go with it.  I will now roll for his cash allotment and see if I can armor him enough to keep him alive past 1st level.

 Chugosh: 3D8*10 => 150
Not too bad at all.
I can buy banded armor (I assume like a roman lorica segmentata) a helmet and a shield for 105 leaving 45 for weapons and traveling gear.  Cool.

The elf might have been good, too, but the xp progress is so very slow so that decided it.

Sounds good, I look forward to seeing the finished character sheet. I dug out most of my notes last nights, I still need to flesh a couple of things out but we should be good to start Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. I would still like to hear from everyone on scheduling how often we post though just to make sure whatever we work out is most convienient for everyone.