Last month I posted about software tools I planned on using in our current game.
It turns out it worked a lot better than planned. All players joined the Google Group we created (see here for explanations on how it works) and I’m truly impressed by participation.
Google Groups are basically a discussion group tool. All members write messages that remained stored on the group’s page. Members have various options to be informed of new messages (CCed, abridged e-mails, and e-mail digests) . All messages can be searched in Google’s well-know way.
There is also a limited wiki-like function where you can create Web pages and link them together. Each page can then be further linked to discussions.
Finally you have 100 MB of space for shared files.
So I created a closed group (members only can browse) and invited each of my players.
I use the discussions for general out of game discussions: Background, rules discussions, player request. Basically everything we use to do by email and ended up losing time digging up afterwards.
Using the web pages tool, I posted all the game-related info (Background, plot lines, house rules, etc).
As for files, we store scans of race and classes writeups for easy reference as well as character sheets and other game related stuff.
Apart from a few bugs, It works real well. And whenever we read a message, we get these funny Google Ads that rip ‘key’ words from our messages and shows appropriate ads. Boy there sure are a lot of WOW gold sellers out there. 🙂
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