School season is starting again, and our members are going to school all over the country. Surely that shouldn’t mean we still can’t play D&D together, right?
Have you ever played a traditionally tabletop RPG online (using software like OpenRPG or Fantasy Grounds)? Does this interest you? Why or why not?
Personally, while I’ve played some MUSHs and some chatroom/email games, I’ve never really been into playing D&D online. For me, it just doesn’t seem like it would be as much fun… I couldn’t do the funny voices for NPCs, and there’d be too much “chat overlap.” But maybe some of you who have tried it can convince me otherwise?
Bartoneus says
The closest experience I’ve had with this is playing games like Neverwinter Nights or Vampire multiplayer online, with one player acting as a GM. Typically the devolved into Balor summoning fests and level-up orgies pretty quickly, because hell, why not?
I’d say a more general question could be, what needs to be done in a program/client to GET you to play a traditional tabletop RPG system online? Voice chat? Realistic (random/not so random) dice rolling? Full 3d environments? 2d maps? Lots and lots and lots of menus?