Comments on: Adventure Prep: Online D&D game trial

By: Creating an Outdoor Paint Ball Field For Fun

Creating an Outdoor Paint Ball Field For Fun — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:59:46 +0000

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By: Online tabletop roleplaying - maybe not yet » Perception is Truth

Online tabletop roleplaying - maybe not yet » Perception is Truth — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:59:28 +0000

[...] too lazy / too busy / too scared to try this myself, I was (as I said here) interested in how this article over at the Chatty DM site progressed. Well, he’s posted the first update on his online roleplaying report, and it sort of agrees [...]

By: Czar

Czar — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:39:10 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for the mention, Phil! Czars last blog post..Gametable Tutorial: Map Organization

By: Samuel Van Der Wall

Samuel Van Der Wall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:17:01 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I've had a couple friends move away recently, and I was interested in a realistic way to actually continue to game with them. I've heard a lot about different virtual roleplaying software, but have not seen it in action yet. Samuel Van Der Walls last blog post..Shadowrun – All Aboard The Ban-Wagon

By: Adalore

Adalore — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:19:56 +0000

Hah, awesome, I have used wacom since I managed to afford one. (Almost 75$) And I enjoy using it a lot.

Though I find if I start a picture, it’s rather hard to not finish it.
http://adalore.deviantart.com/art/Halberd-104262489

Heheheheh.

By: OneManHorde

OneManHorde — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:04:59 +0000

Chatty I have a question, how did you find the speed of things when using the game table software and Skype, where their any Lag issues or did things run as smooth as a babes bottom?

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:38:32 +0000

@OMH: I’ve been enraptured all day long… I should be writing instead of playing that sweet sweet game!

@Ben: I have a strange Euro model with no clear name tablet. It works surprisingly well to draw maps. I also occasionaly use it to draw with Rory.

@Jeff: It’s still always cool to talk to you amigo!

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:17:04 +0000

This is what I get for not reading my blogs for several days. I just got off skype with you and then I see this. Heh.

By: Online tabletop roleplaying » Perception is Truth

Online tabletop roleplaying » Perception is Truth — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:00:12 +0000

[...] I’m watching this thread with interest over at the Chatty DM [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:01:28 +0000

Was this the Bamboo? Some other pad? I'm surprised, they look very reasonable in terms of price. Have you tried using it for any other projects? Art? -Ben. Bens last blog post..Shameless self-promotion...

By: OneManHorde

OneManHorde — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:47:31 +0000

Orange Box! mmm Portal a short awesome game that gave me some very interesting ideas for a session of gameplay that drove my players up the bend

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:13:17 +0000

Hey man, welcome on the blog! The notes were unexistant and the whole reality show didn’t work all that well on a virtual tabletop… a lot of the fun of such a game is the visual cues and gags you can do.

I’ll talk about it in my play report… I should get it done today or tomorrow. I’m taking a day off and the inertia is strong… plus i’m downloading the Orange Box from Steam…

Must game!

By: OneManHorde

OneManHorde — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:09:13 +0000

““Hello and Welcome to this special edition of THE CRAWL!: Monster vs Monster edition! I’m your host, Naquist Balefire. Lets give a warm welcome to our newest contestants who are getting ready to challenege the yet undefeated SCALY SIX!”

Aww man this sounds sweet, if only we could get hold of your notes for this thing!

By: Trying out Gametable | Greywulf's Lair

Trying out Gametable | Greywulf's Lair — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:29:10 +0000

[...] ChattyDM put us on to Gametable, the free java-based virtual tabletop app. That’s something which I’ve glanced at briefly in the past but, without an itch to scratch, not looked at any further. When we game, it’s either face-to-face or over IRC, and for 3e D&D or Mutants & Masterminds that’s more than sufficient for our needs. [...]

By: Trabant

Trabant — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:06:34 +0000

Kudos on the scenario, I’m trying to pull my group over to some less serious one-shot. Also, I dig the map. Drawing things shakily, as if a kobold made it already implies fun.

I’m quite intrigued about the outcome.

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:40:33 +0000

Very curious to hear your results, Phil... as you know all of us over at StupidRanger are in a situation to really exercise this, so if you like it we'll probably try it too! Dantes last blog post..Surviving the Crazy Times -- The New Home

By: walkerp

walkerp — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:55:14 +0000

Love the GameTable! Things got a little quiet there in GameTable land, so I\’m glad to see you are trying it out, Chatty. Hopefully it will excite some interest in what is the easiest online gaming app out there. It\’s also cross-platform and free. I ran several GURPS games using Gametable, including a huge battle where I hacked the Savage Worlds mass battle rules with the GURPS character rules and it really was a blast. I had the players moving their pogs (as heroes or commanders) as well as large pogs representing various armies and it worked really well.

It\’s just kind of intense playing on line like that. I\’m thinking of trying shorter sessions, maybe just one hour at a time.

Good luck and I\’ll be watching!

By: Kevin Richey

Kevin Richey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:49:44 +0000

@Chatty: I think it’s something of an immersion issue, at least for me (I haven’t asked the other players how it feels to them yet).

1) No faces or real dice. I’m surprised by how much I miss rolling real dice.

2) Moving graphical pogs around a colorful map and clicking macro buttons (in MapTool) to attack. My battle maps are photoshopped images with that 2D CRPG look.

3) We’ve been using those battle maps almost 100% in the current adventure, with very little narrative role-playing. The DMG Kobold Hall adventure is just five encounters in a row with no exploration. However, I’m planning to insert a custom sub-dungeon between the fourth and fifth encounters and not use any battle maps, just old-fashioned narrative role play over the voice chat.

By: greywulf

greywulf — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:29:08 +0000

Sittin’ back munchin’ popcorn.

I’m looking forward to the series of posts about this, Phil

greywulfs last blog post..Jedi Paladins for 4e

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:21:24 +0000

@Eric: Mine’s a bottom range obscure model that was available through Europe that my mom bought in a Husqvarna store (she has one for her Mecha-sized Embroidery machine).

@Kevin: What exactly do you find video gamey about the process? I know I’m going to miss out on the visual cues to help me adjust the story.