Play by post is incredibly slow, but you can check out Dragonsfoot for this feature.

Instead, you should try Skype and setup a real-time game.  We have sessions with five or more players, all on conference call, and it works great.  You can even use free rpg software such as Gametable  to host the game with maps and a built in dice roller.  Next best thing to sitting around the kitchen table playing D&D....

The hardest part as you might realize is finding a window whenever can participate in the call, but still two hours of voice is better than two months of play-by-post.

Keith the Thief wrote:
I hear Twilight Zone theme music.
Did I have this conversation with you?
It was one of the few of us from Alabama.

Anyway, what you say makes sense.
The only problem would be setting aside the 2- to 3-hour window to do the Skyping.

I'll look into Gametable.  Sounds interesting.

Have to agree with Smarmy, better to use Skype than PbP.  Read almost any PbP thread (can be found on most RPG related forums).  Dullsville.  And that is before you look at the datestamps and see how slow things progress.

Hey Alan,

whats the address of your shop please?

We were in Liverpool over the Xmas and were going to call in, but couldnt find it.

Cheers,
KAL

Hiya,

we did go over the water, on the way to Cheshire Oaks

Will deffo look in next time we're in the area!

Cheers,
KAL

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/317339

Starting to think all Ebay/PayPal employees are frickin' idiots.  

That is utterly stupid.

I saw this today and it made me smile....

Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young checkout operator suggested I should bring my own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The checkout operator responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right about one thing -- our generation didn't have the green thing in "Our" day. So what did we have back then…? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day here's what I remembered we did have....

*Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the shops and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go 200 yards. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling tumble dryer -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of a tennis court. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a water fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.0

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Just tell her plastic hags are bad for the environment too.  

If anyone cares, 5th edition has been announced:

http://www.wizards.com/DND/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4ll%2F20120109