Is anybody here playing Pathfinder online yet?

[Duvik]

Is anybody here playing Pathfinder online yet?

I'm here to represent the minority of players that use Virtual Gaming Tables like OpenRPG and Maptool to play traditional pen and paper rpgs online.

If you don't know what OpenRPG and Maptool are, well, I'll tell ya.

They are totally free Virtual Gaming Tables. You know, it's what WotC has been promising for a while now... well, these programs are nothing new and they perform the same primary functions that Gleemax and the DnD Gametable were going to do.

You can host a server, or join an existing server. Once joined, you can chat with other players and roll dice of many sorts. The GM has more control and he can load game maps and fog out the unexplored areas. He reveals more as the players explore. The players can load tokens to represent their characters during combat and such.

Character sheet functions that allow you to create macros for rolling actions are also included in these programs.

All in all, they kick arse first and ask questions later.

I've been using Virtual Gaming Tables for years. It's perfect for adults that can't meet every week due to family obligations. It's great for kids that can't go out and meet friends to play.

Virtual Gaming Tables are the way to play for many people and if you're interested in finding a good community of roleplayers that are already using these tools to game, I suggest www.thetangledsweb.net as your first stop.

The Tangled Web is a community of Role Players that primarily use OpenRPG and MapTool to run their games. The website has a Vbulletin forum that is modded with a die roller for play by post gaming as well.

The site also gives any Gamemaster running a game his or her own forum space for conducting business between sessions.

They have a Character sheet profiler that might be familiar to many folks. 3eProfiler is integrated with their forums as well. I hear that they plan to have a Pathfinder sheet available in the future too.

Anyway, I think that the Pathfinder society could certainly benefit from a relationship with The Tangled Web and I hope to find some fellow Pathfinder fans there looking for a game.

Thanks fer readin' all this... I really love my online gaming and I'd like to find more folks to play the systems I enjoy with.

OpenRPG and Maptool are some really great tools that folks need to know about.

[Coboney]

I can't say I use Pathfinder Society but I am running 2 PF games and in 2 others ( 3 over maptools and one of the ones I DM is over IRC.) I can say it works very well for me as the whole and the games are very different styles.

I can say I'm very happy with the final PF release.

If anyone's interested the site I use to play on is The Tangled Web ( www.thetangledweb.net ) which is a very nice site with all sorts of games and mediums in my experience. A great community etc. etc. :P

[Duvik]

Just went over an looked at Tangled Web's main page and they have three Pathfinder games looking for players on there.

Interest Check: Pathfinder - The New World

Sundays! 3.5e/Pathfinder!

Pathfinder World's Largest Dungeon

Those three threads have the details on each game. You can also recruit for your own games there.

[erian_7]

I'm running a PbP Legacy of Fire game using Pathfinder, over on the Mythweavers site.

[Duvik]

Mythweavers is a pretty decent site for play by posting too. I've been doing that more often myself lately. I've been itching for another real time game though. Play by posts just take to doggone long fer anything to happen in my own experience.

I like setting aside about 4 hours and just roleplaying with friends in a real chat environment.

[Dave Young 992]

thanks for the links, guys. I'm going to try to sign up for some PFRPGPbP and see if I can handle it.

[erian_7]

Duvik wrote:

Mythweavers is a pretty decent site for play by posting too. I've been doing that more often myself lately. I've been itching for another real time game though. Play by posts just take to doggone long fer anything to happen in my own experience.

I like setting aside about 4 hours and just roleplaying with friends in a real chat environment.

Oh, I agree. I'm fortunate enough to have a home group so I get real game face time there. The PbP is my "proving ground" for LoF before I throw my players at it...

[Duvik]

erian_7 wrote:

Oh, I agree. I'm fortunate enough to have a home group so I get real game face time there. The PbP is my "proving ground" for LoF before I throw my players at it...

Virtual Gaming Tables are great for play testing purposes as well. There was a lot of Pathfinder Beta discussion and real time games played online over at Tangled Web.

I think a few play by posts were created as well.

I'm only just getting into reading Pathfinder SRD. I don't care much for pdfs and I don't have $50 to spare right now for the hard copy.

So far, I'm dying to play a wizard.

I'm hoping to see something nice in combat streamlining though. That always seemed to be a bottleneck for 3.5 DnD and OpenRPG.