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We've been playing D&D 3, 3.5, and 4e, as well as a few other RPGs in #d&d on Austnet IRC for just over 10 years. We've been playing PFS for about a year now and we're always looking for players.
Playing on IRC is super convenient. We've got:
- a website, for where characters are uploaded to (among other things):
http://dnd.ballig.net/
- a newbie guide, for anyone new to playing online.
- The creator of Combat Assistant, which is a much better and far-simplified version of Maptools (CA is really fantastic work, well worth taking a look at, and getting better with upcoming changes).
It's absolutely worth coming in to see if it's your thing, especially if you're in Australia:
irc://irc.austnet.org/d&d or through Mibbit, though you'll eventually want a real client.
If you're not in Australia, we do have a few international people who fit our timezones, and if you fall into that category, you're just as welcome.
In the interests of speeding things up, we've sometimes use Skype to talk about planning and for general banter (we've got a pretty relentless sense of humour in the group), but you're not obliged to use it if you don't want to.
Everyone's really helpful, if you have questions, you can always ask in channel and someone will help you - and there's no such thing as too many questions.
We've also got a Google+ page, where some goodies go up.
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Hey, I thought I'd throw my support behind this.
I was invited by Mekkis to play a couple of Pathfinder sessions on IRC - Before the Dawn Parts I and II.
I have to admit, I was dubious about the PFS online experience before I tried it myself, but it actually ran much like a regular session, complete with table banter, except you couldn't see each other's faces.
From memory, there were three players from Melbourne, one from Singapore, and probably someone I'm forgetting, Mekkis was GMing from Brisbane.
I typed in IRC for the most part, which we were encouraged to do, so there'd be a typewritten record of our session if a player or GM needed to refer back to something, though Skype was useful to jump in and debate a rules related question. Mekkis read boxed text aloud over Skype as well as posting the text to IRC. We were provided links to our faction missions and Mekkis PDFed our chronicle sheets after filling in the GM fields.
At times we could hear crows cawing in the background, or a tropical downpour over Skype, even though I was sitting comfortably in my Melbourne apartment looking over my balcony at clear blue sky.
Near the end of the session when we were wrapping up our faction missions, Mekkis asked us not to type all at once, because he couldn't type that fast while walking. While walking??? Yeah, it's starting to get dark, and I need to get back to my car. Why, where were you GMing from? From my laptop in the Botanic Gardens.
Sessions run a little longer online than they do face-to-face, but overall it was a good experience, and certainly suits someone who for whatever reason, distance or schedule, can't make it to one of the many public PFS gamedays around Australia or elsewhere. Also if you keep an eye on their schedule, you might be able to catch up on a scenario you missed along the way.
The website allows us to upload our character sheet in plain text or bb code (bulletin board codes same as we use here in the PFS forums to link, bold, bullet point etc). HeroLab can export your character sheet in plain text or bb code, so it was easy to upload that file to the website so the GM could access our character sheets - in fact anyone can view our chracters, for example I played Lo'gan Kho online Before the Dawn Parts I and II.
Combat Assistant was a very useful online mapping tool.
I have also gamed with Avatar-1, Bairaq, Leis, Mekkis and Oskar in real life, and they're great guys :-)
Give it a try!
Cheers,
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Stephen (DarkWhite)
Pathfinder Society 5-Star GM
Venture-Captain, Melbourne