Google Wave

[interwyrm]

A few long distance friends are thinking about trying out google wave for rpg purposes. Has anyone had experience trying that?

How did it work out?

 

[keterys]

Psst. In your google search, type 'rpg google wave'.

 

[Mark]

Read more in this thread -

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/267888-google-wave-list-rpg-related-waves.html

Join the EN World Google Wave Group -

EN World D&D / RPG News - EN World "Google Wave" Users

And you and your friends can add your email addresses (gmail for best results) to the thread in the group. I've just gotten a new pile of invites which I can dole out to your group so you can try things first hand, if you like.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I've already started using it for my upcoming M&M campaign, and I think it's going to work out great. As of right now I have a wave for explaining and discussing the basic rules of the game, and I'll soon start waves for each PC, detailing how to build characters. Finally, I fully expect to have interactive session logs.

If I didn't know better, I'd think Google Wave was created for RPGers.

 

[Meek]

I've been using it to do previews of a little RPG system I've been writing for my friends. It's a great place to display material and get feedback.

I'm also GMing a GURPS Mystery game on Wave. Wave handles this pretty awesomely because you can have a wavelet for each character if they're separated, and run their thread of events entirely within their own wavelet and its subordinate intra-wavelets until they meet up again, and then you start a new wavelet with the characters together, all within the same overall Wave thread. It really makes story threads of all sorts easy to make and follow.

 

[tylerthehobo]

The UI itself worked like a charm, and the apps that you can add are awesome, but we found it running reaaallly slowly, when my pals and I tried it for a d&d game, today.

Notes here. Let me know if you have any ideas about how to handle the speed issue? Or just wait it out?

Tyler is Gaming...: First Try at Using Google Wave for D&D

 

[Festivus]

The best way I have found thus far for remote gaming is to have a real tabletop game going at the location with the most players, using Maptool for map sharing, and Skype with video for a feeling of being there. Die rolling and the like is left to trust that the players are reporting their rolling accurately.... what slows things down online I have found is: Die rolling, macro confusion, and typing stuff out on the chat window.

 

[Meek]

For Mac OS X, Waveboard is a pretty fast Wave client, much better (in my experience) than running it on Safari or Firefox. Google Chrome also runs Wave better (again in my experience) than other web browsers, in Windows 7 and in Mac OS X.