I’ve been thinking about it for some time now and I finally set everything in motion this morning. (I love Sunday morning cartoons, both my kids are watching while I tap away and keep an eye on them to the sound of high-pitched laughter).
After talking about it here and here, I went out and created a DM-only Google group called Chatty DM’s Club. I’ve put my money where my mouth was (Ewwww! What an awful idiom when you think about it) and I’ve decided the best way to ‘sell’ the concept is to showcase it.
I’ll send invites to the DMs who’ve answered the Quiz (except Yan, sorry mate off limits to players) or just click on the link and register (having a gmail account helps but is not critical). Please, DMs/GMs only. If there is a demand for it, I’ll create a Player friendly group too (or give a nice reader a 24 hour membership to my own campaign group). I’m not a RPG snob, I want to hear about C&C, Burning Wheel and other cool RPG rulesets.
The DM’s page is going to have 2 roles:
- A demo for using Google Groups as your RPG online page for discussions, house rules and common files.
- A discussion board for DMs who want to discuss things online but away from their player’s eyes.
As an added bonus I’ve included a copy of my DMwiki on the page. Feel free to copy and peruse, but do not post it online please as I’ve used quite a few page scans of maps and other non-OGL stuff in it (but if I get a Cease and Desist from WotC and/or Paizo I’ll have reached a new objective with this here blog).
Please join, I’ll be your gracious host to the awesomeness of using shared spaces for your campaigns! I have no ambitions of making this a GM wiki like Treasure Table’s (Go help out Martin instead), it’s just a little group of pages to show you something that has been working so well for me!
As I re-read my post and think of the emails I sent this morning, I can’t help feeling that I sound like a peddler. Having to register with Google makes me feel like a Corporate Hack trying to sell Google.
It’s not as it looks, I really would like to share the awesomeness of this as a tool. They say that what you lack in talent, make up with enthusiasm… well that’s me!
Have a look, if you like it tell your friends that there’s no ‘trap’ waiting for gullible DMs…
http://groups.google.com/group/buffaloheroes
Google Groups really is great for this sort of thing. I wish I had more time so I could flesh out the pages section with various house rules and such.
I also use google spreadsheets for various campaign details:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTyFB5nfcDwB7cwR6lodCZg
Thanks for the comment Chris, I will go an have a look if ya don’t mind.
Also thanks to all that joined. We already have 7 members! If you have posted on the ‘what kind of DM are you thread’ and you did not get a personal invite, I’m sorry! I’ve had a hard time tracking the e-mails of some of you guys (Ronin, Tom, Fang to name but a few). But you’re all welcome to join. I’m online full time during EST business hours so I’ll activate your membership requests post haste.
Oh and Chris, for the House rules, please feel free to steal any of mine!
My email is gospog AT Gmail DOT com
(take that, SPAM bots!)
I post most everywhere as “gospog”, but Google knows me as Tom so my posts on blogger.com sites show up as “Tom”. (which, to be fair, is my name)
But feel free to invite me. I appreciate the inclusion.