Online game

[TRDubbz]

How? Where? and When?

[Bearded Ben]

What sort of online game are you asking about?

[TRDubbz]

pathfinder. sorry for the vagueness. i just dont want to wait month to month to get games in and ive heard of people playing online so yeah

[Rynjin]

Well, there's a Play by Post forum on this very site, and there's also quite a number of Virtual Tabletops (VTTs), including roll20.net (my board of choice) and Maptools.

If you have players in mind, such as some Facebook friends/people you know from high school that live elsewhere that wanna play, that's a good way to do it. I personally organize my online games out of a private forum I frequent.

[Bearded Ben]

The play-by-post (and the occasional live-over-internet game recruitment) forum is here

[kyrt-ryder]

I'm a big fan of Infrno.net actually. (I've had way better luck with it than roll20.net)

[TRDubbz]

is there a guide on how to build use it?

[Rynjin]

It's pretty intuitive. Roll20 is anyway, I dunno about Infrno.

[kyrt-ryder]

I know Infrno has a bunch of tutorials on their website, not too sure about roll20 or the others. (The advantage to Infrno and Roll20 is that they don't require a bunch of technical crap to link up computers, they're entirely browser-based.)

[TRDubbz]

and character building is done how?

[Rynjin]

TRDubbz wrote:

and character building is done how?

According to the core rulebook.

I'm gonna take a guess at this point you've never played Pathfinder before?

Here. That particular page is a good quick rundown of how character creation is done, and the site as a whole is a great resource.

[Bearded Ben]

There's a couple of sites that let you create character sheets you can share with people. Myth-Weavers is one of them. Or you could use Google Docs or a file on a site like Dropbox.

[TRDubbz]

no ive played. just not online. i have it in my head that it is going to be something like apprentice card game engine or Magic Work Station felt.

[kyrt-ryder]

I'm not familiar with either of those, but playing Pathfinder Online is a lot like doing any roleplaying online.

You build a character, you get together with your group (if using a chat system such as Infrno or Roll20, if doing play by post the DM will organize a roleplaying thread somewhere), you get into character, and you roleplay.

Visuals aren't required, but roll20 and infrno (and mapquest and others for that matter) all provide an online gametable where the DM can display maps and tokens and such.

[TRDubbz]

ive never played and pen and paper rpg online before is my problem. online irl

[Rynjin]

TRDubbz wrote:

no ive played. just not online. i have it in my head that it is going to be something like apprentice card game engine or Magic Work Station felt.

Nah, it's just like any other character sheet except save digitally.

I personally use an Excel based one. Google Docs!

Google docs is perfect for keeping everyone's sheet together too.

[kyrt-ryder]

I wasn't only talking about pen and paper (but I suppose some people do roleplay in MMO's... I've never had any interest in that so I excluded it) but rather roleplaying online in general (such as by Chat or by Post)

Rynjin and I gave you the rough basics and websites to check out. You should start reading for yourself :)

[TRDubbz]

i did.

[Liz Courts]

Moved thread.

[nicknarwhal]

are you trying to DM or are you trying to be a PC? i'm looking to be a PC and i'm just as clueless about how to do this online as you are.

[kyrt-ryder]

So Nick, which program are you using?

[supergran]

is there a game being proposed or what for i would love to play and i would not mind being DM on roll20.net just let me know