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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 252295" data-attributes="member: 413"><p><strong>Re: MS Netmeeting</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Surely.</p><p></p><p>The division of the company I work for is distributed over England, Germany and most of the United States. So we have a lot of meetings via teleconference. Often, we need to demonstrate software in these meetings (or just share information in real-time). So I was in a meeting a few weeks ago (and not paying much attention) and thought "You know? There's no reason we couldn't play D&D this way."</p><p></p><p>So anyway...NetMeeting has the following features that may be useful to RPGs:</p><p></p><p>Communicate via voice (we don't use that at work) and text. </p><p>It has a "white board" that allows you to illustrate things.</p><p>You can "share" applications so others can see the application(it even allows others to take control).</p><p>You can even share your desktop.</p><p></p><p>So...my idea is that the DM would start a netmeeting session and the others would "call" him to join. The DM can run the session just like a normal PnP RPG...with his voice. He can share applications to illustrate battles (I plan on using TMapper), for dice rolling and what not. I'm going to use e-mail for text "handouts" and probably upload any pictures to our yahoo group in advance and ask the players to download them (with out looking at them) before the session to save band width.</p><p></p><p>We're playing "off-line" this weekend, but we plan on discussing how to game on-line and in the next week or two we plan on giving it a try. I'll post here to tell you how it goes.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah...you can get NetMeeting for free from Microsoft's web site. Just do a search on Google for "netmeeting" and it should take you to the download.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uller, post: 252295, member: 413"] [b]Re: MS Netmeeting[/b] Surely. The division of the company I work for is distributed over England, Germany and most of the United States. So we have a lot of meetings via teleconference. Often, we need to demonstrate software in these meetings (or just share information in real-time). So I was in a meeting a few weeks ago (and not paying much attention) and thought "You know? There's no reason we couldn't play D&D this way." So anyway...NetMeeting has the following features that may be useful to RPGs: Communicate via voice (we don't use that at work) and text. It has a "white board" that allows you to illustrate things. You can "share" applications so others can see the application(it even allows others to take control). You can even share your desktop. So...my idea is that the DM would start a netmeeting session and the others would "call" him to join. The DM can run the session just like a normal PnP RPG...with his voice. He can share applications to illustrate battles (I plan on using TMapper), for dice rolling and what not. I'm going to use e-mail for text "handouts" and probably upload any pictures to our yahoo group in advance and ask the players to download them (with out looking at them) before the session to save band width. We're playing "off-line" this weekend, but we plan on discussing how to game on-line and in the next week or two we plan on giving it a try. I'll post here to tell you how it goes. Oh yeah...you can get NetMeeting for free from Microsoft's web site. Just do a search on Google for "netmeeting" and it should take you to the download. [/QUOTE]
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