I've never tried playing D&D over the internet, but this campaign setting would be fun to test out before I unlease on my current group. Has anyone put any thought into this, and if so how would you implement?
What software do people use for the most part (AIM, PbP, Fantasy Grounds, Screen Monkey)?
I'm about to start a regular AoW campaign with my regular tabletop group, and will probably start second campaign via Pbp with some strangers.
Play-by-post is fun because I love fleshing out all the action with lots of flamboyant descriptions. I can spend an extra hour to make every little detail extra-accurate. It's ridiculously slow, but it's also a fun way of trying out your creative writing skills.
I've been playing online for years. Play be Email for about 6-7 years. None of those games really got anywhere. I've been running Shackled City for an online group, and even that is pretty slow. Using AIM and MS Excel (makes a good combat grid), playing once a week for 3-4 hours, we've made it about half way through the second module. And we started in Jan '04.
Recently we moved to FantasyGrounds. The program still has some issues (notably with crashes), but it definitely has potential. And the crashes seem to happen infrequently enough that it doesn't matter all that much. The biggest pain with the program is typing everything in to the campaign, however. Once that's done, everthing goes fairly smoothly.
Has anyone here checked out ghostorb.com? I haven't used it yet as they are still launching the site, but it looks promising for those of us who aren't so sold on internet gaming.
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I've been running the game over at Playbyweb.com for about a month now. You can check out the results at this URL: http://www.playbyweb.com/fantasy3.php?_b=10876
(Sorry that it's not in hypertext format, I couldn't seem to get it to work. :P)
Anyone play via OpenRPG? I've been using it for around 6 months now, and it is pretty darn close to a live session.
I'm working on preparing a game of AoW with Fantasy Grounds. I think that it's going to be very cool! The web enhancements really help make online tabletop gaming a possibility.
http://forums.fantasygrounds.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4525#4525