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ij thompson
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 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject: Online advice? |
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Hello you guys! Long-time lurker, first-time poster (though I think I remember some of you from the HoloNet Forums).
So, after almost ten years, I've got a jones... a jones for more D6!
Of course, fat chance of my finding players in my area... so it looks like I gotta go online. Playing online has been just fine for Tapestry (it's play-by-post, all fiction, no dice), but now it's time to leap into the arena that (hopefully) many of you are familiar with.
Now, I know there are great programs out there; MapTools, OpenRPG, GameTable, and stuff like that. But from what I'm seeing, they're too good. What I'm basically looking for is:
- Multiplayer chat, across all platforms.
- An incorporated D6 dice roller, with the wild die, that players can roll themselves, and whose results are recorded within the chat.
- The ability to add pictures to the chat during play (I could survive without this one).
That's it! No mapping, no tokens, no 'fog of war'. Is there anything like this out there?
I'd be very thankful for any advice you can offer! 
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Raven Redstar
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MIRC has multi-user chat, with dice roller bots which can be added in. I've seen several people use them for online meetings, not sure about games, but I've never done much in the way of online RPG.
As for adding pictures, I'm not sure if that's able to be done through MIRC, but one can always post links to pictures if they're hosted on a website somewhere.
Anyway, good luck, I'm sure there are other options, but that was the first thing that came to mind. |
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ij thompson
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Thank you, Raven!
I think I've since found a good chat solution, and the die roller here on Rancor Pit is certainly all kinds of awesome. Now, the moment of truth: will the players object to me rolling the dice for them? 
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cheshire
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Part of the fun is rolling your own dice, rather than just seeing random number generation appearing on the screen.
I've got a really nice javascript dice roller that I'm not sure I understand why it's never been converted into anything available in a chat. (Of course, that probably has more to do with my lack of understanding of how chats are programed.)
You can find it in my signature.
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| ij thompson wrote: | | I think I've since found a good chat solution, and the die roller here on Rancor Pit is certainly all kinds of awesome. Now, the moment of truth: will the players object to me rolling the dice for them? |
It wouldn't bother me. But as I haven't done the PBP thing yet, I would defer to others as to what most players might feel about who rolls. |
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Falcon79
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:33 am Post subject: Re: Online advice? |
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| ij thompson wrote: | Hello you guys! Long-time lurker, first-time poster (though I think I remember some of you from the HoloNet Forums).
So, after almost ten years, I've got a jones... a jones for more D6!
Of course, fat chance of my finding players in my area... so it looks like I gotta go online. Playing online has been just fine for Tapestry (it's play-by-post, all fiction, no dice), but now it's time to leap into the arena that (hopefully) many of you are familiar with.
Now, I know there are great programs out there; MapTools, OpenRPG, GameTable, and stuff like that. But from what I'm seeing, they're too good. What I'm basically looking for is:
- Multiplayer chat, across all platforms.
- An incorporated D6 dice roller, with the wild die, that players can roll themselves, and whose results are recorded within the chat.
- The ability to add pictures to the chat during play (I could survive without this one).
That's it! No mapping, no tokens, no 'fog of war'. Is there anything like this out there?
I'd be very thankful for any advice you can offer! |
well macs can run windows progroms i hear now, game table works well enough for me and so does openm upen even does the exploding dice rhing of d6 and ptctures can be posted in it... sadly multi plat form is hard to do, and having a very rough drawn map to get jist of location helps at times for me as a player (not talkin minis battle but showing locations and such even many good gms do it.).
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