It allows you to search the
messageboards, send and receive private messages, give yourself a
custom usertitle, turn ads on or off, create a custom style for your
profile, get a nifty badge under your username, and gives you a special
warm glowy feeling! Oh, and it gets rid of this annoying message, too!
I need to sart up a new game soon for for the players of my Mud Sorcerers' Tomb. I'm curious to know what other players and GMs are doing to cope with the loss of invisiblecaste.com.
__________________ Delia in drothgery's Keep on the Shadowfell
Supreme Girl in hero4hire's Freedom League Unlimited
Tenna in arcanaman's Empire in the Dark
Keira in Jemal's Past Tense
Kira in timbuktu's Halls of the Minotaur
Rigi the Kobold in Isidorus' Keep on the Shadowfell
Tara in Rayex' Stranded, the confused
Maki in ishalleatyourflesh's Monster Madness
Aiyana in Azor Grimcleavers' Rise of the Runelords
How do you use it? It doesn't deem to work for me.
Wasn't that difficult for me to use.
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I clicked the link, typed in a characters name. Then in each of the following I typed:
Name - Test
Number of Dice - 4
Sides of Dice - 20
Modifier - 4
Note - Test Roll
Then I got a page that looked like this:
Test roll
Done!
ID = 200501
Username = Test
Note = Test roll
Date/Time = 8/24/2008 7:45:34 AM
Dice = 4
Sides = 20
Mod = 4
Rolls = +18 +10 +11 +2 +4
Total = 45
You can link to this record with the following URL: http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/sea...me=Test#200501
__________________ Delia in drothgery's Keep on the Shadowfell
Supreme Girl in hero4hire's Freedom League Unlimited
Tenna in arcanaman's Empire in the Dark
Keira in Jemal's Past Tense
Kira in timbuktu's Halls of the Minotaur
Rigi the Kobold in Isidorus' Keep on the Shadowfell
Tara in Rayex' Stranded, the confused
Maki in ishalleatyourflesh's Monster Madness
Aiyana in Azor Grimcleavers' Rise of the Runelords
Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
When I've run games, I pretty much always just roll physical dice myself and have the players trust me on that. Only thing about it is that means the GM is rolling attacks/damage and other things that are usually more player oriented rolls.
I personally vastly prefer to actually have the roll recorded somewhere.
You'll always make a few mistakes, if you've got it "written down online" you can refer back to it.
It forces you to "manperson up" and accept being wrong from time to time (or 50% of the time in my case), but I think that's better really.
Players who can see what you're doing and why and feel comfortable asking about your math are, to my mind, happier. After all, I demand the right to see rolls and double-check stuff, why shouldn't they be able to?
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Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
I also prefer that the players roll the dice, to me even though it's the same whether I roll the dice or the DM does, I just have a personal satisfaction of rolling.
I personally vastly prefer to actually have the roll recorded somewhere.
You'll always make a few mistakes, if you've got it "written down online" you can refer back to it.
It forces you to "manperson up" and accept being wrong from time to time (or 50% of the time in my case), but I think that's better really.
Players who can see what you're doing and why and feel comfortable asking about your math are, to my mind, happier. After all, I demand the right to see rolls and double-check stuff, why shouldn't they be able to?
Well, usually I'll still POST the rolls, so they are recorded. Also, lately, I've taken to using a piece of paper to jot down rolls in case they need to be referred back to.
Honestly, either way is pretty similar. The only real difference in the online rolling is you have a link to post, where with physical dice you don't(...unless you took a picture of the dice, heh). Overall, I've just found it works easier to handle most of it on my end, and at the same time there are usually some players that use an online roller, too. That allows those who prefer to do their own rolling to do that(well, when the site was up...) and those who don't mind not rolling to focus on other things they enjoy more.
And really, I've never got the satisfaction from hitting a button when 'rolling' a dice as a player compared to the physical stuff. Some part of me just likes to keep the physical dice in the equation, even for a PbP. That and I'm one of those GMs who keeps a lot of rolls behind the screen anyway, so this allows that, too.
When I DM I encourage players to use Invisible Castle to roll. If they don't I'll roll offline and just post results. As a player I'll follow the DMs lead. Some require IC, other encourage it, and others will do all the rolling off screen.
Formerly Known As Frukathka 
I'd actually appreciate helpful comments. 
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