Players can roleplay in message boards (also known as forums). In most cases, the player will describe their character in their forum signature, or in a forum thread.

Message board roleplaying is text based, but unlike chat based roleplaying - it isn't live. Players leave forum posts describing what their character is doing - that post remains there for anybody to see at any time. Other players may want to have their character do something as a result of the previous post.

Message board roleplaying is normally conducted in the third person, with different locations and adventures divided into different forum threads.

Some internet games are chat based, meaning that in order to participate, the player must be logged on to a chat service that other players are on as well. Click here for chat clients.