Online P&P Rpgs.

[Sifright]

This is more of an open question to see interest in getting a p&p group together.
trying to find out if people would be interesting in playing and what system people would want to play in.

For my self I'm not to bothered about what system gets used as i've played in a large variety of settings and systems and most of what makes it good is the people you play with.

If your interested could you post the system/setting you would prefer used and whether your up for GMing or playing.

[Krylo]

Might be better in the RPG section where there's been some success with this already. I'm currently GMing an FFD6 game over there, and Funka managed to successfully start an Exalted Campaign, but then he stopped showing up to the chats. We had a CoC campaign that got through one mission on the forums waaaaay back in the day, and I think there's been no less than two D&D campaigns that got off the ground but died shortly. PF had an Eclipse Phase game that was pretty fun for the little while it lasted. I also GM'd two or three homebrews, none of which got too far, but...

Most of the deaths had to do with GMs kinda underestimating the work involved in doing an online RPG, and the slow relative speed at which they move when on a forum due to combat rounds (why I'm experimenting with FFD6, combat rounds are much more fluid and quicker as a result). In chats if you've got a dice roller it's not so bad, but on a forum board you're basically doing all the the GM work plus all the player work--other than deciding what the PCs will do.

I've also been pondering, if I get time, running the Exalted Example Campaign (Tomb of the Five Corners) over a chat.

[Pip Boy]

I'd be interested in playing such a game, especially if we could use an online tabletop such as OpenRPG or anything like it. My RP experience is mostly in D&D 3.0/3.5.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'd be keen bu am Europe based so times are different and haven't had much with a group there in the past. I'd be more keen for chat-based though.
Only one I've done is 3rd- 3.5 which I've DMed a lot

[Sifright]

I'm euro based as well for what it's worth Barrelpants,

Krylo I understand where you're coming from but I don't imagine running the game on the forum it's self. Forums are good for many things but it's far to slow paced to run games with any kind of moderate combat focus.

Pip boy has the right idea in using OpenRPG or another program like gametable as they allow an entire group to see the grid table and dice rolls and other malarky making things much quicker, not to mention a shared chat room.

For what it's worth I'm also willing to be either a D/GM for D&D, WFRP 2nd ed or possibly MURPG (which does work forum based) or a player for pretty much any system or setting.

[Pip Boy]

Sounds like D&D is pretty good. I live on the West Coast of the US, so timezones will be a bit off, but if we have a majority of European player I won't mind playing at strange local hours to conform to your crazy metric time system.

Perhaps I shall have to introduce you all to Bob the Bipolar Barbarian.

[Krylo]

Krylo I understand where you're coming from but I don't imagine running the game on the forum it's self. Forums are good for many things but it's far to slow paced to run games with any kind of moderate combat focus.

Funka managed to successfully start an Exalted Campaign, but then he stopped showing up to the chats. I've also been pondering, if I get time, running the Exalted Example Campaign (Tomb of the Five Corners) over a chat.

I don't think you do. My point was that you're likely to find more people willing to actually sign up to play down there.

Regardless of whether it's on the forums or a chat or some program specifically designed for it.

[Pip Boy]

Sif and SMB, is there any real-time chat client we could all agree on using to help in the planning for all this nonsense? It would make discussing campaign settings, picking a DM, and planning times a lot easier.

EDIT: Me and Sifright have added each other's MSN addresses for purposes of talking about this over instant messaging service.

If anyone wishes to join these discussions or receive more frequent updates on the status of the campaign and its planning, please PM for my MSN/Windows Live Messenger address or add my steam account "Pip Boy".

[Sifright]

Yea i totally missed your point Krylo my bad :| Pip boy I use MSN I'll pm you my email address and you can add me on that if you want.

[Pip Boy]

Sifright, Shyria and I spoke about schedules for a while earlier today and determined that the best play times will be either Sundays or Mondays in the Morning/Evening in the US/Europe respectively. SMB, how does that work for your schedules, and how would you feel about DMing?

[Azisien]

SMB as a DM, wow, I pity you folks.

[Sifright]

Don't be silly it's going to be amazing.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

PM your MSN addies, I'll add you when I get home from work.
I'm happy to DM or play, but I should warn you, my DMing style leads to....uh....unique experiences.

[Sifright]

This can only be a good thing. If you are DMing which system will you use and what source books will be allowed?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm most familiar with 3.5. I have a policy that pretty much anything is allowed, whatever you need to make the character you want. But as an implied warning, anything you can dothe DM can too, so you can make ultra-broken characters but I will do so as well and punish any weaknesses in your build you have with terrifyiing accuracy. On the converse if you make a level 20 diplomat then he will find lots of cunning webs to penetrate and nefarious schemes to perpetrate.

[Sifright]

That's fair. Do you have any specific character build rules in mind or is it roll 4d6 drop the lowest?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

We usually use 28 point point buy but I don't care either way. Whatevs the players want to do as a group is fine by me.

Edit: Didn't see times- are we proposing Monday Evening Europe time? Should work for me. How are we going numberrrrs wise?

[Pip Boy]

So far it looks like we've got Sifright, Shyria, and me for sure, which means we have the 3 minimum for a party. We can take on more, which will give us a larger and more varied party, but at the same time it'll make it more difficult to get everyone together and keep things moving. Since you're the DM now, we'll leave that up to you.

As far as worrying about powerful character builds etc, It seems based on who we've got so far that we'll be relatively simple character types, focusing more on the role-playing and fun parts of the game than on trying to become as close to pun-pun as possible.

[krogothwolf]

Hm, I'm at GMT-7 and interested, not sure if that would actually work during the weekdays for me though :/ sadness

[Professor Smarmiarty]

That said, Pun-pun build is totally allowed.
The real question is, does anyone have the cajones to try it.
Do you want to dance with the devil? Cause hes been practicing the samba.

Edit: Krogo what times what yo ube free in general?

[krogothwolf]

Well, I work 8:30am-5pm Mon-Fri so it'll be tough for me to be available for weekday games on yer crazy GMT time.

[Pip Boy]

I can only play Monday, Teusday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
Shyria is only free on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday.
I've spoken to Sifright and he is free on Thursdays and Mondays, and probably a few other days I didn't ask him about.

It would be really hard to do this on a day that isn't monday.

Krogo, what part of the world do you live in? If you're in Europe that could work. If you're American or Canadian, however, it'll have you at work while we're starting.


EDIT: I've also finished my plans for my character. I shall be Niblin, the Kobold Cleric. Seeking to atone for the sins of his people though the doing of good deeds and spreading of overall good will and warm fuzzy feelings and things.

[Azisien]

Don't be silly it's going to be amazing.

Oh for sure. This actually interests me but I have never used 3.5e and I am not sure I can make the commitment.

[Ravashak]

I'm sort of interested, but I have absolutely zero experience with this (Eye of the Beholder 1, part of 2, Strongholds, and Dungeon Hack are the closest I got to D&D) sort of thing.

I do have a bunch of the Warcraft d20 books (appearantly "A fantasy roleplaying game for revised third edition rules", guess this is 3.5?) so I'm set in that regard (do note the excessive sarcasm, probably xP).

ps. Warcraft's Arcane Corruption is funny

[Sifright]

ps. Warcraft 2nd edition book is hilarious tinkers basically group up and make shit that can stomp challenge rating 20 monster they just need find enough level 1 tinkers. 20d6 gun that fires at a range of 2000 ft with +20 to hit? knock your self out. (Tinkers are actually fun to play if you dont make them ridiculous though)

D&D is a pretty simple system and the warcraft books you have use that exact same system so if you understand whats going on in them you shouldn't have any problem with d&d

I'm going for a Wild mage Wizard, probably so either Chaotic good or Neutral. ( not set in stone though I might make something else)

[krogothwolf]

Canada, hence the GMT-7 so the old mountain standard time. Normally I could suck it up and play through while at work, but as I am actively looking for another job I can't say how long it'll last were I can play while work.

Being in IT does have its benefits!

[Pip Boy]

While a specific set of hours has not yet been determined, we'll be playing somewhere from like 12-5 North American and 5-10 European, subject to a couple of hours shift depending on where specifically on your continent you live and when exactly we start playing. Ravashak, what it sounds like is that you played something almost identical to D&D 3.5, so rather than actually learning a whole system, you'd just need to learn the differences between the two. Much easier. Any and all are welcome to join if they think they can keep to the schedule. We're always in need of more cannon fodder allies.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Zero eperience is not a proble,. I'm happy to run people through rules/teach them hilariously wrong rules for my own amusement.

[Pip Boy]

Just an update on the status of the game: While we would like to play on mondays, tomorrow we will probably not be playing for two reasons. The first reason is that not all preparations are complete and not all players are totally ready to go and sure on what kind of charcter they want. The other reason is that tomorrow is Valentines Day, an important American holiday where everyone with their priorities straight will be busy trying to get laid.


That is all.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Also I'm hangover like you wouldn't believe