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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1299912" data-attributes="member: 6530">Wow, playing online by voice, that's nifty, I've never even tried it.  I recall toying with some voice-over-IP software years ago, the sound quality sucked, but I was a broke freshman in college and it didn't cost long-distance, so we used it a bit.  I imagine the quality is somewhat better now.All my online play has been by IRC, play-by-post, and play-by-email.  By-IRC is probably closest to what you're talking about, since it's realtime.Realtime is occasionally a pain, since you all have to be online simultaneously, but since it's a previously-existing group you've neatly skipped that step, it should be easy to arrange.In addition to your communications medium, you'll need some kind of collaborative space; either a website you can throw a bunch of files onto, and send out URLs to players as they become relevant, or some kind of shared whiteboard software.<a href="http://www.webrpg.com/gamesystem/index.phtml" target="_blank">WebRPG</a> was one of the first RPG-specific internet software tools for online play, and used to be pretty good, but I haven't tried it in years.  It's supposed to mimic a tabletopish environ for a game, that might be part of what you need.</blockquote>