How do I find a Chat based game online?

[wysiwyg]

Can someone help direct me to a forum that is specifically geared towards finding an online chat based (3.5) D&D game?

I'm getting quite bored with the concept of PbP as I feel it's too slow and tedious. I feel that PbP is just not for me. I'd prefer to have a real-time game with encounter's and roleplaying done much quicker as we all did in the past with our tabletop games.

I know that there are some chat based games out there that use certain online tools for maps, dice, etc. But I don't know how to find a game that I could join. If someone can help I'd be really grateful.

Thank in advance.

 

[renau1g]

You might be able to find something here, but not sure if you're able to jump into a timezone that many of them are (EST, CST, West Coast time) being in South Africa.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/gamers-seeking-gamers/

 

[Dragonwriter]

It can depend largely on what program you use. As I recall, RPTools has a Forum section on their website devoted to finding/setting up games. OpenRPG is a pretty good program that I've used for a few years now and it has a forum for recruiting players. I'm not familiar with any others (and actually haven't used RPTools' stuff), but each program should have a forum.