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 Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:48 am
I am still elated that my campaign has taken off in this guild. We're going to have a lot of fun. I still have yet to find a campaign to PLAY in though. I just keep making and submitting characters...
So this topic is all about places to play D&D online. My friends I used to play table-top D&D with moved away, leaving me with noone to play with IRL... so now I hunt for other places to play D&D. If you know of any good ones, or disagree with my opinions below then let me know smile
These are the places I have found so far:
The Gaia forum: I especially like the Gaia dice 3nodding
By messenger: This allows for a real-time game, but I haven't tried it..
IRC: Another method for a real-time game that I haven't tried. Seems like it would be like one of those text-based MUDs.
An online game based on D&D: I spend a lot of money on books, but I prefer to be able to *see* the things I buy. I don't want to spend money on a fee for online gaming... My dial-up connection makes playing NWN online a non-option. Stormwrack costs money... Endless Online WILL be a D&D clone, but right now it is missing a lot. I still play EO a lot though, cause it is designed for low-bandwidth.
WoTC forum: My friends tell me that they have a hard time getting DMs here too...
PBEM: Play-By-E-Mail is even slower and harder to track than forum D&D.. I have tried this, but the campaign kinda died out as player never responded... (I wasn't DMing)
OpenRPG: The virtual online table-top. I have this program, and it's useful.. but I've never actually played D&D using this..
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:50 am
BloodOnWhitePetals I am still elated that my campaign has taken off in this guild. We're going to have a lot of fun. I still have yet to find a campaign to PLAY in though. I just keep making and submitting characters... So this topic is all about places to play D&D online. My friends I used to play table-top D&D with moved away, leaving me with noone to play with IRL... so now I hunt for other places to play D&D. If you know of any good ones, or disagree with my opinions below then let me know smile These are the places I have found so far: [list=1]
[*][b]The Gaia forum:[/b] I especially like the Gaia dice :3nod:
[*][b]By messenger:[/b] This allows for a real-time game, but I haven't tried it..
[*][b]IRC: [/b] Another method for a real-time game that I haven't tried. Seems like it would be like one of those text-based MUDs.
[*][b]An online game based on D&D:[/b] I spend a lot of money on books, but I prefer to be able to *see* the things I buy. I don't want to spend money on a fee for online gaming... My dial-up connection makes playing [color=darkblue]NWN online[/color] a non-option. [color=indigo]Stormwrack[/color] costs money... [url=http://endless-online.com]Endless Online[/url] WILL be a D&D clone, but right now it is missing a lot. I still play EO a lot though, cause it is designed for low-bandwidth.
[*][b]WoTC forum:[/b] My friends tell me that they have a hard time getting DMs here too...
[*][b]PBEM:[/b] Play-By-E-Mail is even slower and harder to track than forum D&D.. I have tried this, but the campaign kinda died out as player never responded... (I wasn't DMing)
[*][b][url=http://www.openrpg.com/]OpenRPG[/url]:[/b] The virtual online table-top. I have this program, and it's useful.. but I've never actually played D&D using this..
[/list] Between the Three Major Messengers AIM is the only one with dice
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Hunter Rose (the grendel)
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:57 am
Hunter Rose (the grendel) Between the Three Major Messengers AIM is the only one with dice Wow, you quoted that whole thing... I have the AIM version that is built into AOL.. I have never seen the dice. That may be cool.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:12 am
BloodOnWhitePetals Hunter Rose (the grendel) Between the Three Major Messengers AIM is the only one with dice Wow, you quoted that whole thing... I have the AIM version that is built into AOL.. I have never seen the dice. That may be cool. in a chat room the command for dice is //roll-dice(number)-sides(number) Without the parynthesis
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Hunter Rose (the grendel)
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:00 am
Well hey if you ever wanna play through a messager then you can play with me, I play on MSN with Mortager adn Jeron 2 all the time. And I am currently DMing a game at the moment! 3nodding
And I also have AIM!!
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:26 am
DeathGod02 Well hey if you ever wanna play through a messager then you can play with me, I play on MSN with Mortager adn Jeron 2 all the time. And I am currently DMing a game at the moment! 3nodding And I also have AIM!! Really? I have no idea how a messenger game actually works.. Do you play in a chat window? I'd love to watch sometime. If I knew how it worked I'd probably play.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:35 am
BloodOnWhitePetals DeathGod02 Well hey if you ever wanna play through a messager then you can play with me, I play on MSN with Mortager adn Jeron 2 all the time. And I am currently DMing a game at the moment! 3nodding And I also have AIM!! Really? I have no idea how a messenger game actually works.. Do you play in a chat window? I'd love to watch sometime. If I knew how it worked I'd probably play. Its not too different from this. Just everything is faster. And if you use something other than the AIM dice roller (which hates me), You either trust the players about the roll, or, the DM rolls everything.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:44 am
I usually trust the players, most players tend not to f*** you over.
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Hunter Rose (the grendel)
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:55 am
I have my MSN and AIM listed in my profile.
Most you guys already have 'em though.
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:21 am
Yay I'll Message you and you can either join or watch, its really a lot of fun, and I trust people. So you can roll your own dice! But just in case my MSN screen name is shinigamii02@aol.com
That goes for anyone one of you guys! Ignore the link thats not my e-mail adress anymore just my MSN name cause I haven't changed it!
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:15 am
A cool site that I've found is plothook. It's a large forum for pbp campaigns. The nice things is that you can get your own category and have pretty much full control as the dm within your campiagn. I'm playing in three campaigns there right now but 1 has recently gone on hiatus due to the dm being quite busy irl.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:51 am
Thanks, I definitly check it out.
The site does look a little amatuerish and hard to read...
My favorite thing about playing in the Gaia forum is that you make a little gold just for playing D&D mrgreen
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:16 pm
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:22 pm
Well, how come you're not playing here? mrgreen
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:40 pm
BloodOnWhitePetals Thanks, I definitly check it out. The site does look a little amatuerish and hard to read... My favorite thing about playing in the Gaia forum is that you make a little gold just for playing D&D mrgreen Yeah, I like that last detail too. mrgreen
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