Good online roleplaying app?

[Dextolen]

A few people in my gaming group have told me they could game more if we could play online, via our home computers instead of face to face. I would do this if I could find a way to bring the tabletop experience to the PC. Is there any recommendations for doing this. Things I'd like to maintain in my games include

1. Prefer voice rather than text communication.
2. Maps and counters, where people can move their counter (or tell me where they want to move)
3. Dice - the full complement of D&D dice with results visible.
4. Characters viewable online.

Anything, or collection of things, out there to help me accomplish this?

 

[Mark]

Might want to check the software forum. Maybe ask a mod to move this thread over there. Hope that helps, wish I could help more.

 

[Dagda]

Screen Monkey from nbos will fill items 2 and 3 I believe.

http://www.nbos.com/products/screenmonkey/screenmonkey.htm

 

[LiVeWiRe]

Here are a couple of threads about Screen Monkey and the last is a thread about voice communication:

https://www.enworld.org/index.php?threads/74381/

https://www.enworld.org/index.php?threads/72372/

https://www.enworld.org/index.php?threads/73627/

HTH,

LW

 

[Emiricol]

A few people in my gaming group have told me they could game more if we could play online, via our home computers instead of face to face. I would do this if I could find a way to bring the tabletop experience to the PC. Is there any recommendations for doing this. Things I'd like to maintain in my games include

1. Prefer voice rather than text communication.
2. Maps and counters, where people can move their counter (or tell me where they want to move)
3. Dice - the full complement of D&D dice with results visible.
4. Characters viewable online.

Anything, or collection of things, out there to help me accomplish this?

I can't think of anything that will handle everything. However, OpenRPG (free at openrpg.com) will handle everything except the voice communications, which you could handle with any of the voice chat utilities separately from the gaming utility.

 

[JoeBlank]

I can recommend OpenRPG, as well as WebRPG (which was once free, then went to a pay system, and has become free again).

They can do everything you list with the exception of voice, which you can get elsewhere or simply be getting on a conference call.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Might want to check the software forum. Maybe ask a mod to move this thread over there.

Indeed.

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[Greyline]

I'm a fan of webrpg, though they seem to be down right now. Coupled with Teamspeak, it's a pretty good simulation of tabletop gaming.

Greyline

 

[Agent.0.Fortune]

I haven't seen Webmonkey but I've used Gamevoice for all my online gaming needs (primarily NWN, Ghost recon etc).

The server is a free download, the chat client is free (but you need speakers and a mic, or even better a headset). Or if you use it for fragfests or RTSG pick up the Microsoft Gamevoice (includes head set) and you get some low-level voice recogintion software and do away with your keyboard away entirely.

http://www.gamevoice.com/gamevoice.asp

 

[TogaMario]

I wouldn't be totally opposed to making this system you want, but it'd take a while (i'm going to school for animation and this is my last quarter) and it'd be free. Payment would speed the development up, but I don't want to take people's money, especially since I'd be making it just as much for myself. If enough people were interested, I think I could swing throwing something together.