Advice? Using Skype to Play DnD

[Glass Castle]

Hi.

Has anyone ever tried using Skype, Gizmo, or any other VoIP technology to play DnD?

I can see a few problems with it, but have worked out solutions to most. Can you identify better solutions, or maybe other problems that I did not catch.

* Rolling (solved by TRUST)
* Maps (solved by digital cameras and emailing before-hand)
* Battle Maps/Marching Order

The last is the most difficult.

I understand Wizards' Digital initiative seeks to solve this, but it's already late and the Di has been disappointing thus far. Is there another solution to Marching order than sweeping the webcam around the room to look at miniatures?

Thanks,
~LD

[Pax Veritas]

I can hop on skype. I am open to trying it out sometime.

[PlotyJ]

Light Dragon wrote:

Hi.

Has anyone ever tried using Skype, Gizmo, or any other VoIP technology to play DnD?

I can see a few problems with it, but have worked out solutions to most. Can you identify better solutions, or maybe other problems that I did not catch.

* Rolling (solved by TRUST)
* Maps (solved by digital cameras and emailing before-hand)
* Battle Maps/Marching Order

The last is the most difficult.

I understand Wizards' Digital initiative seeks to solve this, but it's already late and the Di has been disappointing thus far. Is there another solution to Marching order than sweeping the webcam around the room to look at miniatures?

Thanks,
~LD

I do the same thing with my brother.

Do you know if it's possible to show the image of your webcam to more then 1 person?

[Pax Veritas]

We recently had some trouble showing to multiple persons on Skype, that is, we weren't able to do so.