Playing RPGs online

In article <45eda4c1$0$333$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
mcv <mcvmcv.RemoveThis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>thom_raindog <sotis.RemoveThis@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> Has anyone come across a good way to play roleplaying games online?
>
>I kinda like email. It allows everybody to play in their own time. That
>does mean it moves a bit slowly at times, but it works well enough.

Some people arrange a common time and use a chat room or IRC channel.

There's also "play by post" where everyone posts to a common board. The ones
I used to use were
www.dndonlinegames.com
www.myth-weavers.com
rpol.net
www.opengamingworld.com
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"Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...)

On Mar 7, 12:08 am, dal... RemoveThis @qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) wrote:
> In article <45eda4c1$0$333$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>,
>
> mcv <mcv... RemoveThis @xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >thom_raindog <s... RemoveThis @gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Greetings
>
> >> Has anyone come across a good way to play roleplaying games online?
>
> >I kinda like email. It allows everybody to play in their own time. That
> >does mean it moves a bit slowly at times, but it works well enough.
>
> Some people arrange a common time and use a chat room or IRC channel.
>
> There's also "play by post" where everyone posts to a common board. The ones
> I used to use werewww.dndonlinegames.comwww.myth-weavers.com
> rpol.netwww.opengamingworld.com
> --
> "Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...)



Some friends of mine are using a program called open RPG... www.openrpg.com
give it a try... it comes with chat, die roller, character sheets,
map, and some other things that are really helpfull

Wagner

On Mar 6, 12:09 am, "thom_raindog" <s... DeleteThis @gmx.net> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Has anyone come across a good way to play roleplaying games online?
> I have found it increasingly hard to get players together (thanks
> among other things to WoW). With everybody and there brother now being
> online I hope that it would improve the situation if I could provide
> them with a means of playing online..
>
> anyone?

Google Groups actually may not be a bad way of posting and organizing
a play-by-post type of game. The Pages section can be used for any
HTML display the DM wants to put up; the Discussion section can be
used for character communication; Files section to store char sheets
and any images.

Nice thing about a Group is that it gets its own email address, the
group of players can communicate with everyone just by sending to the
one email address. The group owner can add/remove/limit the group
members, keep it private or open to public. Etc.

See my next post about our campaign, Rescue of Midville, in a Group.

David Alex Lamb <dalamb.TakeThisOut@qucis.queensu.ca> writes:
>In article <45eda4c1$0$333$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
>mcv <mcvmcv.TakeThisOut@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>thom_raindog <sotis.TakeThisOut@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Has anyone come across a good way to play roleplaying games online?
>>
>>I kinda like email. It allows everybody to play in their own time. That
>>does mean it moves a bit slowly at times, but it works well enough.
>
>Some people arrange a common time and use a chat room or IRC channel.

Or a social MUD/MUSH; some may even provide support tools for this.
(Your players are welcome at mine: telnet mush.pennmush.org 4201).

But play by email, asynchronously, is also quite interesting,
especially if the GM also likes to play literary editor.

- Alan

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On Mar 6, 9:08 pm, dal....TakeThisOut@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) wrote:
> In article <45eda4c1$0$333$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>,
>
> mcv <mcv....TakeThisOut@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >thom_raindog <s....TakeThisOut@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Greetings
>
> >> Has anyone come across a good way to play roleplaying games online?
>
> >I kinda like email. It allows everybody to play in their own time. That
> >does mean it moves a bit slowly at times, but it works well enough.
>
> Some people arrange a common time and use a chat room or IRC channel.

I've been using chat-based gaming for about 4 years now, and it works
okay, if a little slower than table gaming.

I gave up on email based gaming as being entirely too slow and
chaotic.

Brandon