I once played an adventure-RPG-ish play-by-email game that was fairly nifty.
It was a long time ago, it was called "Heroes" something...
basically, it was a small group of people who registered with the webmaster of this site, who made profiles of each of our characters...
Then, the webmaster would individually send us a scenario, and we would write back with our choice of what to do... the webmaster would then write back what happened, and we would again choose our action.
We could meet other player characters if we happened to be in the same place within the same period of time (such as choosing to go in a tavern that another player hadn't chosen to leave yet).
Then, we could interact via the webmaster, and choose to exchange emails so we could plan our actions together.
As we gained items and experience, the webmaster would also update our profiles.
I thought it was a really neat concept
