SubscribeSchool season is starting again, and our members are going to school all over the country. Surely that shouldn’t mean we still can’t play D&D together, right?
Have you ever played a traditionally tabletop RPG online (using software like OpenRPG or Fantasy Grounds)? Does this interest you? Why or why not?
Personally, while I’ve played some MUSHs and some chatroom/email games, I’ve never really been into playing D&D online. For me, it just doesn’t seem like it would be as much fun… I couldn’t do the funny voices for NPCs, and there’d be too much “chat overlap.” But maybe some of you who have tried it can convince me otherwise?
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2 Responses to “Inquisition of the Week :RPGing over the Internet?”
Posted: Aug 15th, 2006 at 9:50 am
The closest experience I’ve had with this is playing games like Neverwinter Nights or Vampire multiplayer online, with one player acting as a GM. Typically the devolved into Balor summoning fests and level-up orgies pretty quickly, because hell, why not?
I’d say a more general question could be, what needs to be done in a program/client to GET you to play a traditional tabletop RPG system online? Voice chat? Realistic (random/not so random) dice rolling? Full 3d environments? 2d maps? Lots and lots and lots of menus?
Posted: Aug 26th, 2006 at 11:27 am
[...] One of the stories posted in nearly all the news sites I read is that Microsoft is going to make three Spiel Des Jahres winning boardgames available as downloadable content from Xbox Live. Turning boardgames into videogames has been going on for a long, long time: my parents used to play Backgammon and Bridge on their Atari. The question is about the REVERSE- how can technology improve your non-digital games? I posed the question recently about using software to play D&D over long distances- but you don’t need dedicated software to have part of the experience. I’ve heard tales of people using voice chat software and a webcam to play. (In fact, one of my favorite comics features a player in the regular RPG who plays entirely over Webcam.) Technology has finally caught up to the point to where this is viable; I remember one day when I was in middle school where I tried to play D&D over the phone when I was sick. During the phone call I changed characters to be a Raving Derelict, so all I had to do was ramble incoherently in the phone when I wanted to do something (and in fact, ramble incoherently was all my character COULD do, as it was too difficult for a real character to get the information needed to be effective over the phone.) [...]
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