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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seeten" data-source="post: 2022214" data-attributes="member: 27186">A Better Way to play D&D?Another salient point. It makes less sense for me these days than ever before to game at someones house over pizza and beer. I still do it, but its not at all convenient.Let me espouse, for a moment, how I would best like to enjoy my hobby.  Me, at my computer, headset on, with a chat program like IRC up on computer. Character and all info set to go on said computer. Feet up, slippers on, coffee on heater on computer desk. All dice, and peraphernalia taken care of through online dice rollers. Settle in for some good rp, in the comfort of my own home, at whatever time is convenient. Online, there is always someone sharing your schedule/timeline. What we need is a matching service, similar to ENworlds Play By Post section, except for playing the game the usual way, except via electronic methods.  I can find 3 hours almost every night, its just rarely the same 3 hours my friends can all spare.  I dont like PbP or PBeM, but I do love the better rp you get when all IC stuff is typed into the same IC window of IRC. The character interaction is much better without everything prefaced by, "Ok, my character says, "Insert false or lame accented dialogue here"".No need to reinvent the wheel, the game exists, the dice rollers exist, the gamers exist, they all have computers, my headset cost $40, and I host my own teamspeak for WoW anyway, setting this up is free, and all it would require is people to game. If it were more convenient for people to game, they'd game more. If we gamed more, we'd buy more. If we bought more, the industry would be healthier. I have trouble justifying purchases when I rarely play though.The almost 1 million World of Warcraft players show the base is there, but its convenient to play that anytime. D&D is much more troublesome. I think we need to make it easier.</blockquote>

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