Short Circuit's Journal: D&D, VoIP, and e-Tale

This is going to be brief, blunt, and quick. Feel free to quiz me if I don't offer enough details. Is there anyone interested in playing D&D online on weekend evenings?

Yes, I know I brought this up before.

e-Tale isn't coming back for now, due to time, procedural and technical issues--and me trying to do too many things at once. The email foundation of the game structure was both liberating and limiting. Once I have the time to restore the wikis, it might be revived. Or it might not.

My brother called me up last night and asked me if I could organize a D&D game he could participate in. He set up a Ventrillo server with the intention of saving on his cell phone bill, and is interested in seeing that used as the communications medium.

The way his schedule works out, he'd miss one out of three meetings, if they took place on the same block on the same day each week. I'm thinking of alternating between Saturdays and Sundays, always in the evening, depending on player availability.

I've wanted to try this before...would anyone like to give it a shot this time around? (Heck, it might just be cool to hear other circler's voices, for those of us who haven't been able to meet up.)

(Pre-JE thought bumped to the end: Grr! Damned preview. I had a nice, funny JE explaining all of this that took me a couple hours to write. I had to close the browser, so once I finished it I hit Submit--forgetting that Submit is really Preview. Then I closed the browser.)

One option...

[RailGunner]

Neverwinter Nights 2.

I think it has multiplayer and hosting abilities.

....... and I got it for Christmas, and haven't even installed it yet. sigh...

Re:

[FortKnox]

I'm not a fan. Granted, I've never played it, but I'm a giant BG/BG2 fan. But if you want to play a pen&paper rpg, you need to have imagination and liberty, which you lose when you get fixed into the limitations of a game.

That, and I can't fit another game on my system ;)


I can only play after my kids go to sleep, so like after 8pm EST. Before that is pretty difficult for me.

Re:

[GeckoFood]

Neverwinter Nights 2.

I have heard that NWN2 does not afford anything over the original other than eye candy in exchange for much steeper HW requirements. I have the original and am content. I was given a copy of NWN2 as a gift and I don't feel a burning need to install it.

The one thing I do lack is a high-speed connection. That's enough to keep me from playing online.

Have to pass.

[Deamos]

I already play on sunday nights in a regular game, the other nights of the weekend are no good for me.

hmmm

[Ryan_Singer]

I'm intrigued. My only issue about doing it via VOIP is simple, what will we use as a "table-top"? How will combat positioning be handled? Dice rolls? character generation is made easy with point buy.

I supposed we could use IRC for dice rolls (using a bot) and passing notes, and do free-form combat (no grid). I really like the effect the combat grid has on tactical combat though.

Re:

[Short Circuit]

Hm. Google Spreadsheets?

Sundays, maybe...

[pythorlh]

Weekends are my time with the boys. Sunday nights I might be able to join in, depending on the time. I haven't played real RPGs in a dozen years or so. I'd love to work something out, but my schedule is kinda tight.