r/CortexRPG

Hi, I’m JC, posting as u/OneSlowPost.

I’ve been running and playing asynchronous tabletop campaigns across time zones for years, with friends. Eventually, I became frustrated with trying to run long-form games in tools designed either for real-time chat or general-purpose forums, so I built inkroll.gg

Inkroll is a browser-based platform designed specifically for play-by-post campaigns: keeping long games readable, organised and navigable as they grow. It is free to use, with optional paid plans for people who want to support development.

We can also import existing campaigns from Myth-Weavers and Discord.

I’m looking for blunt feedback from people who actually run PbP games: what is the one thing your current PbP setup handles badly enough that you would seriously consider switching tools?

Inkroll currently works with games such as D&D, Pathfinder 2e and Shadowrun, and I’m also interested in supporting less common systems as well. If you run something unusual and would be willing to test it, feel free to message me!

I got a core concept, but now I have a question, how do you make in-battle rogue different from, say, barbarian and warrior? Like, I feel most battles will be "I attack him" but worded differently.

Does cortex give tools for that? For example, should they have about 5 cheap/no cost SFX for solving this? Or maybe step up/down die when PC tries to take advantage of enemy weakness/surrounding/some already existing asset? Or maybe something else entirely? Or Cortex is not that much about fights?

P.S. small questions not 100% relevant:

- conflict is like "I kill the bad guy" or "I try to swing and bad guy defends"?
- how heavily should i use SFX? Like, should I make one for every character feature, like night vision and ambidextrous or limit to couple signature abilities?

I built a platform specifically for long-form PbP campaigns, looking for honest feedback

Tactical combat in Cortex?