Does anyone play Dungeons and Dragons online?

[Doomhunter]

Does anyone play Dungeons and Dragons online?

Where is a good spot to find a regular game?

I have seen several different programs but the good looking ones cost and I am not really wanting to pay for anuthing unless I am sure I can find a game.

 

[Thanee]

You mean like Neverwinter Nights?

Or a client to play pen&paper online? There are at least two free ones out there...

If I would know the names of them, I would tell you, but I never used them, so didn't really care enough to memorize, I guess.

Other than that you can play D&D online (play by post) at this site (Talking the Talk and Playing the Game forums).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Doomhunter]

Im looking for pen&paper online games.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Well, check out the Talking the Talk forum here on ENWorld. There are usually some games recruits players around.

 

[Raloc]

OpenRPG is probably the best, and free too. There are some minor problems with the map, but they're easily over lookable considering how well the rest of the program works. Other apps cost around $40-60 for a "Game Master" license, and $15-30 for a "Player License". I have a group that uses ORPG for all of our games (since we live all over the world). We run a very tight game, lots of RP and great fun. The average session is about 4 hours, with shorter ones being 3 and longer being 5. We find it's much easier to RP via ORPG than IRL, since talking in character is so much easier.

http://www.openrpg.com

 

[Thanee]

Im looking for pen&paper online games.

Well, there are basically two different ways...

One is, using a chat-based client (or a chat-client directly). Then the DM and all players have to be online at the same time. OpenRPG (yeah, that was one of them I meant up there) is an example, for a free client, which is specifically meant for online roleplaying, but IRC does work as well, as does ICQ or MSN.

The other is, using e-mail or a forum (like this). This is called Play by E-Mail (PbEM) and Play by Post (PbP) respectively. Works a little different to a pen&paper game, since you do not need to have everyone online at the same time, but everyone should check back every day or every other day at least and then make a post (or write a mail) to describe what his or her character does. You can see plenty examples of this in the Playing the Games forum on this site.

Bye
Thanee

 

[DMFTodd]

Kloodge.werks, ScreenMonkey, OpenRPG, and FantasyGrounds are programs that help you play "traditional d&d" over the computer. You can look into those and see which program you like or try to find a game that way. I like kloodge myself.

 

[Raloc]

IRC doesn't work nearly as well. No map, no character sheets etc. I've done both for years.