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Thanks Morrus. I'm currently working on putting together twitter users to follow. I'll keep it up to date on my blog, and try to update this post with them as well. General News Genconbot: reposting anything that includes gencon in the tweet. Gencon: office twitter feed. This Just In From...

For those of us unable to go to Gencon, but interested in following along at home, I'm starting my somewhat annual post of news and goings on at Gencon 2013. If you know anyone posting blog posts or reviews of what's happening at gencon this year, that would be great! I'm most interested in...

Thank you Nagol for actually reading my post. :) That's very helpful. I'll have to check out birthright, I've never seen it before. And I didn't realize that Ars Magica might fit. I'll have to check that out as well. Thanks CHC and AngryMojo for rule sets for the actual play, but I'm not...

I'm looking to start a game in a post-something city where the players are going to become a major force in a city wracked by gangs and factions fighting over turf. I'd like the actual play to still resemble d&d, not necessarily in ruleset, but rather in style: players have a goal, control one...

Well, I know a lot of people are recommending MapTool, and I would as well, if we could actually get everyone to connect. We followed all the FAQs we could, still couldn't make it work. We've moved to using google+ for voice/video chat and have been using Twiddla for our mapping, and catch...

Some ways that I've made 4E work within the mindset of a West Marches game. 1. Make sure there are plenty of potions of healing. That way if they are without a leader, they can still survive. 2. Use some of the odder magical items, like potions, salves and the such that players can use after...

Definitely check out Apocalypse World. Really does the Mad Max style post apocalypse well. Has some interesting play mechanics as well. My favorite in the partial successes, which allows a player to get a bit of what he or she wants, but the MC (gm in Apocalypse World) gets to make a move...

I also would like audio and video, and many other people have talked about using video with their games as well.

I'd love to use google plus, but apparently I missed my chance to join. I'll have to wait until google plus opens back up.

Thanks for the links. I actually had already found your Maptool Education Central page in my google searches and had found it really useful. I appreciate all the advice everyone. It sounds like Maptools will do everything we want it to (be a battlemap) and skype with video chat will do the...

Hey everyone out in enworld land, after some great D&D and roleplaying at Gencon, my farflung friends and I are talking about playing D&D online. Does anyone have any recommendations, or at least some experience with it? What would you recommend? I think we're going to start with Maptools...

Here's my thursday update with news and pictures from around the web of gencon. Thursday Gencon Update

I've collected a bunch of the posts and news from Gencon from the past day here.

Here's a good list of indie games to be excited about at Gencon with the booth they can be found at and links to the games websites. rdonoghue: Gencon Hotspots

Updated with a bunch of new links and twitter accounts. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far. Would love to have even more links!

I would love an app that allowed people to do all their DMing right from their iphone/ipad/website. Here's what I wish it would have: 1. Character Manager (players can upload their characters to the website, which would allow the DM to pull pertinent information during combats and skill...

I know I know, this is a bit early, but I wanted to get a jump start on this thread as Gencon is just around the corner. Particularly because I'd like to update this post with links to blogs and podcasts that will be updating live from gencon. Are you going to be blogging or podcasting or...

These are great Quickleaf! Do you mind if I add them to my list, and credit you?

I've always been interested in these kinds of skill systems. How was the buy in from the players? Did they have a hard time coming up with skills? Do you find that some players create over powered skills, or do you all work collaboratively to create these skills? And how do they come up with...

I like these streetwise partial successes a lot. I think Streetwise is a skill that could definitely work well with partial successes. Yours inspired another one: "Your contacts got some information, but it's going to cost you. 25% of a magical item at your level." And Arcana: "Your...