Do you play online D&D?

[takasi]

I made a new Meetup site for online D&D if anyone is interested: http://www.onlinednd.com/

If you play online, how do you play? Email? Message Board? IM? Virtual Table Top?

We use MapTool, which I think is awesome:

http://rptools.net/doku.php?id=maptool:intro

If you don't play online, what is it about it that you don't like? Or is it more because of a scheduling issue?

 

[AidyBaby]

Only face-to-face for me. I like the social side to the game that can only easily be found in the company of others.

-AidyBaby-

 

[Raylis]

PbP here on ENWorld

 

[Masquerade]

If you play online, how do you play? Email? Message Board? IM? Virtual Table Top?

Message board (PBP) is my primary medium, although I do still participate in face-to-face games when I can (and had a blast doing so this summer!)

Additionally, I'm hoping to get a Sunday night chat game rolling sometime in the next couple weeks.

 

[Greylock]

Only face-to-face for me. I like the social side to the game that can only easily be found in the company of others.

-AidyBaby-

Hey, good first post! And one that says pretty much what I was going to say.

 

[Nikosandros]

When I was in the Atlanta for two years I played online through Skype, but I had a lot of issues with the sound quality.

 

[HellHound]

If you don't play online, what is it about it that you don't like? Or is it more because of a scheduling issue?

I like gaming as a social activity.
I like the pacing that I just can't get online.
And I really like being able to set the tone of the game using voice, manerisms, set, and movement.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

If you don't play online, what is it about it that you don't like? Or is it more because of a scheduling issue?

IME, computers at a game table detract from gaming. This might not be true of all gamers, of course, but it's true of gamers around me. (I've never brought a computer to the game table, however.)

My computer probably isn't good enough to run a game live. I don't have a webcam, for instance, nor do I have any intention of getting one.

Every PBEM (and play-by-post) game I've been in has been a failure, and they usually want too much backstory as well. Whatever happened to a friendly game and adventure? I'm afraid of the same thing if the game runs "live". I don't know if this an online gaming trope, or if I've just had horrible luck.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

pbp here and at at a private board. My group of friends is all over the world (including America, Canada, Mexico and Australia) and coordinating a face-to-face meeting is a once a decade event. The DI VTT might make some games more easy, but getting the Australian in will be tricky, so pbp it is.

 

[Ahnehnois]

No, with a capital N.

Actually, several qualifications:
First, I have a real hard time typing a lot or quickly. Maybe if that werent the case I'd feel differently.
Second, my group does have message boards, which are useful, though not for actual gameplay.

Really, I think D&D should best be done face-to-face, as I think any social activity should be (I hate facebook, etc.). Online D&D might have its own virtues, but I wouldn't want to lose my tabletop games.