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Tabletop Gaming Over the 'Net?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-an-MMORPG dept.

kebes asks: "I'm the GM for a group that has been gaming together for about 12 years. We're starting to move away from each other, and want to switch to playing our tabletop RPG online. So far, we've been using a combination of TeamSpeak and IRC. It works, but is not ideal. What protocol/chat service and applications would make for a great online gaming solution? The voice and text chat abilities are crucial, but having a collaborative white-board would greatly help. Ideally, the solution would be integrated (one app), allow logging of the session, run on multiple platforms (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows), work with web-cams, and permit file-transfers. What service or app (or combination thereof) would work best for our needs? Anyone else have stories of success or failure?"

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  1. Bandwidth by HugePedlar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just make sure your 12-sided dice don't clog up the tubes...

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    Argh.
    1. Re:Bandwidth by XenoPhage · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's worse when you miss the saving throw and the magic missle you intended to clear the tube instead ruptures it. This, in turn, may cause the need for additional saving throws as your tube is suddenly overwhelmed with internets from other tubes.

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      XenoPhage
      Technological Musings
    2. Re:Bandwidth by Palshife · · Score: 2, Funny

      If only the Internet were some kind of truck...

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      Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
  2. World of Warcraft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Same thing happend to some buddies of mine. We all moved away from each other and the regular game we had once a week. We all use to play WoW at the time as well. So once a week, we would log on to WoW, sit all around in the Inn in Stormwind. We would join a private channel and play (a really nerdy version of) AD&D. We would use the games dice system to prevent cheating and etc... It worked pretty well til we all gave up on WoW.

    Playing D&D in World of Warcraft is as about as nerdy and lame as you can get though, keep that in mind

  3. in progress by jrshabadoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    i'm actually writing a DnD app for a friend of mine that will do just that: chat, file transfer, map design, rolls, etc. i'll probably release it eventually.