Short Circuit's Journal: D&D over IRC or VOIP

I must have an obsession going on. I haven't been able to satiate my D&D hunger. So, um, is anyone interested in putting together a game over IRC or VOIP?

I'm motivated a couple of different ways. Second, transcribing Ralek's adventures is proving to be a real pain. Recording IRL D&D sessions is simply difficult to do properly, especially since I don't know how it'll turn out until afterwards. IRC or VOIP allows me to record sessions exactly how they were communicated, either with an IRC chat log or live VOIP recording.

I'm partial to the VOIP solution, really. It's more interactive, and one can chat over VOIP while pretending to do other things at the same time.

Participants would have a motivation, too. Their character would get to have their tales chronicled, at least through the eyes of mine. (Hm. Maybe I'd play a Bard this time, and make that task formal.)

If you're worried about privacy of the recordings, rest assured...There won't be a repeat of that JE where I needed help denoisifying a recording. Now, if I can't understand something, I'll either sit on it until I understand it, or I'll drop it. I somehow learned a lesson from that last episode, despite not being criticized, and there not being any consequences.

So...Who's interested? Considering the medium, it might possible, even desirable, to have a larger-than-average group. If someone can't participate for a session, there's other players who can pick up the slack.

I'd rather not go with NWN, by the way, since I've only got it on my laptop, and that's only connected to the Net once or twice a week.

(What is it with me and experimental D&D mediums? And three JEs in one day?)

Slower medium....

[FortKnox]

An email game may work, just a bit slow is all...

Interested.

[pythorlh]

I'd certainly be interested, but I don't have a lot of free time available on a regular basis, and my schedule changes on short notice. Both VOIP and IRC would be difficult because of that, but I'd be willing to try. A PBEM would be easier for me to maintain.

how do you...

[ak3ldama]

like neverwinter nights? i only have linux on my system so it's something that i am seriously consdering playing, but i would like to know your thoughts on the game. as some context i've played wow but don't really like it, i think that it's view of the rpg world is not wide enough, the game is way too limited.

Re:how do you...

[Short Circuit]

I refuse to play WOW, simply because I'm not willing to spend the grind time to build up my character. NWN is nice, because you build up your character as you're completing quests.

The cool thing is, it runs fine under Linux. I've only had one glitch, where my henchman was confused and started attacking my allies. Then my allies started attacking her and myself. If I killed them, there'd be no way to advance the story line, so I let them kill me. (The game tells you there are areas where you cannot respa