@Daniel: HA! I knew that your name was familiar. I recall Monte blogging about his stay in Brazil and I was wondering if some of the Brazillian readers who appeared here in the last few months were from that group!

Small world!

So cool!

I will definitively need to pick your brains for using Fantasy Grounds as I’m meeting a big barrier to entry with the software.

I too co-own a copy of Monte’s book (Pre-ordered with my friend Math way back when).

I’m also a huge fan of Ptolus! I have an autographed one, as Monte and Sue Cook came to Brazil in 2007.

I hope to see not only comments about the software, but also the campaign journal. Good luck guys! May your roll be critical!

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I can already envision doing Kobold Love playtests on such software!

Ah ideas… how they curse me so!

Lots of fun stuff about how to roll when your dice are not available. I remember playing while driving some place and using random numbers off license plates.

But the testing sounds great. As a thousand others are thinking, “Let me know if someone can’t make it.”

And hearing from some “regular” players is always good for a company. Though I’m dreading WotC raising their rates with the new pieces. Oh well.

@Graham: He has returned! Wee! Its all right if you want to switch, I’m sure you guys will think of something… heck, you can ever apply the 6 million dollar man trope and make Dave into an ex-gnome turned warforged to save his life.

@NewbieDM and Wyatt: From what I can decipher from Wyatt’s Spanish, you play D&D in Spanish like I play it in French with my friends. French verbs and stuff, English names.

@Michael: I didn’t want to dig Rolemaster… it was the paper chit thing As Graham says, the application are mostly system neutral but assume that it uses battlemaps and minis. That being said its also a way of conveying visual props like maps and documents to the players while playing the game.

I hope that each blogger will tackle the project in their own ways.

Most of the programs we’ll be using are system-neutral. So long as your game uses a grid for playing (some/most of the programs also support hexes), you can use the programs for it.

Even the WotC gametable will be usable for non-D&D games, from what I’ve seen in reviews. No idea if it will support hexes, though.

That said, Chatty and I are pretty much straight D&D gamers. Some of the others, like Dave, may be able to give better advice on the applicability for other games. Also, we will be playing D&D 4e, so our ability to test this will be limited.

Good thought, though. We should try to include that.

But seriously, this sounds amazing! And I’m quite anxious to hear about it. Speaking of my love for a not-D&D system, I’m hoping your reviews of the programs will include flexibility for various systems.

I’m even interested to read the campaign. It sounds so over-the-top it’ll be a fantastic little tale to tide me from my gaming abstinence! Do provide us some in-game detail goodies.

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Maybe not switching each time, but every so often, yeah. We need to have enough time to evaluate each piece of software we try, so as to give appropriate feedback about them.

We should be detailing all of those things, though most are easy to connect (or at least equally hard, as all require port forwarding for the host if behind a router), and response time is not really an issue with a map program (unless it is exorbitant).

But yeah, we will be going through those things.

Gametable is currently the default, as it is the simplest and most straightforward. As we get used to the others, one of them may become the new default.

I look forward to the results of this project. Will you be switching between software each time?

Wow, I never thought I’d be using my Spanish online.

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I speak perfect spanish though, so I’d love to try…. let me know if you set something up, if it fits my times, I’d be into it…

Soy un enano… guerrero…. I don’t even know the D&D terms in spanish!!

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He’ll still be a “brother” of sorts for Beatdown. The backstory is still getting hammered out, but it should be good.

A curse may even be involved…

@Jack: Lets just say that we hope to be first in line for the closed beta testing from the moment that we’re allowed to blog about it.

It will all depend on wizards’ community managers and legal departments.

Sorry if I missed it somewhere in your post, but how receptive is WotC in your proposal to test the game in BETA (assuming you’re trying to get your group into the closed BETA testing)? I think it’d be great to see a third-party source do a series of previews for the Game Table.

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Thanks!

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