Best places to look for Online, non Play-by-Post campaigns?

[Uncle Fred]

Title sums it up. Been looking around, both on this site and elsewhere for an non Play by Post online campaign so as to be able to game during the week from the comfort of my own house. I haven't been all that successful in finding anything though. Any suggestions?

[Dracones]

Uncle Fred wrote:

Title sums it up. Been looking around, both on this site and elsewhere for an non Play by Post online campaign so as to be able to game during the week from the comfort of my own house. I haven't been all that successful in finding anything though. Any suggestions?

There best place is to start at the tool being used and then look in the forums for that. The top 3 tools I know of: do20pro, maptools and Fantasy Grounds 2.

For maptools: http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=23

Fantasy Grounds: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

And there's a Pathfinder Society for Fantasy Grounds that just recently started up and is very very active: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fg2pfs/

I'd recommend joining the last group and watching the videos they've created. They have games running pretty much every weekend.

[Deleon]

Dracones wrote:

Uncle Fred wrote:

Title sums it up. Been looking around, both on this site and elsewhere for an non Play by Post online campaign so as to be able to game during the week from the comfort of my own house. I haven't been all that successful in finding anything though. Any suggestions?

There best place is to start at the tool being used and then look in the forums for that. The top 3 tools I know of: do20pro, maptools and Fantasy Grounds 2.

For maptools: http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=23

Fantasy Grounds: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

And there's a Pathfinder Society for Fantasy Grounds that just recently started up and is very very active: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fg2pfs/

I'd recommend joining the last group and watching the videos they've created. They have games running pretty much every weekend.

I'm actually interested in this system as well, but I'm curious if you have any experience with Fantasy Ground II. I looked at the website, and saw that it is something of an investment, so I'd like to know if it's worth the money before I dive in.

[Aero Grachus]

Maptools is free even if it is not quite as flashy as Fantasy Grounds. It took me about a week in the recruitment threads on this site to join a group. If you want to try out online gaming without committing cash, I would definitely consider MapTools.

[Akeaka]

You could also try Open RPG, I used to play a lot on there and had a lot of fun with it. Had integrated chat, dice roller and drawable map. Uses Python, so it's playable on any system.

[Benoc]

TheTangledWeb
is one i'll add to those mentioned above, they have games for pathfinder, 3.5 4e and others as well as a PFS section

[Dracones]

Deleon wrote:

I'm actually interested in this system as well, but I'm curious if you have any experience with Fantasy Ground II. I looked at the website, and saw that it is something of an investment, so I'd like to know if it's worth the money before I dive in.

I'm playing an alternating Sundays Pathfinder game where the GM is running Crypt of the Everflame.

FG works very well. It has a solid Pathfinder framework and does a good job handling "drag and drop" play style. I can drag my bow attack on the enemy and it'll tell me if I hit or not. Can do the same with damage, healing, spell effects, etc. Dice rolls can be public or hidden. So if the GM calls for perception checks I can roll it so only he sees the results.

I bought Herolab to work with it as they just added the ability to export from Herolab into FG.

Maptool is probably the better "battlemap", but FG is the better "table top". My only complaint is that Paizo isn't selling official modules and supplements in their store.

You might be able to find a GM with an ultimate license. If they have that you don't need to buy the client. That said, the lite client(player only) is just $24.