Remote Gaming -- Ideas?

[Moff Rimmer]

Part of our gaming group is moving away. We would like to keep gaming with each other, but a few thousand miles is a bit much to commute.

We would like to do something where we can game basically live (not play by post) via computer. It would be nice to include some kind of webcam (ala skype or similar) as well as some form of screen sharing. Add to that some kind of easy to use sharable map software to help with orientation for battles and that's essentially what I'm looking for.

I'm tired of waiting for WotC to come out with their platform.

Is anyone using something that is similar to the above scenario? Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work well? How do others game with each other remotely?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[eirip]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

Part of our gaming group is moving away. We would like to keep gaming with each other, but a few thousand miles is a bit much to commute.

We would like to do something where we can game basically live (not play by post) via computer. It would be nice to include some kind of webcam (ala skype or similar) as well as some form of screen sharing. Add to that some kind of easy to use sharable map software to help with orientation for battles and that's essentially what I'm looking for.

I'm tired of waiting for WotC to come out with their platform.

Is anyone using something that is similar to the above scenario? Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work well? How do others game with each other remotely?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I am currently using fantasy grounds 2 along with skype and it works great.

http://www.fantasygrounds.com/

[Lilith]

Moff, check out TTopRPG. It's made by Pygon - he's often available in the chatroom.

[Quillion]

I use skype with Maptool

[projektz.au]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

Part of our gaming group is moving away. We would like to keep gaming with each other, but a few thousand miles is a bit much to commute.

We would like to do something where we can game basically live (not play by post) via computer. It would be nice to include some kind of webcam (ala skype or similar) as well as some form of screen sharing. Add to that some kind of easy to use sharable map software to help with orientation for battles and that's essentially what I'm looking for.

I'm tired of waiting for WotC to come out with their platform.

Is anyone using something that is similar to the above scenario? Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it work well? How do others game with each other remotely?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

does this game still run? looking for an extra player?