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<blockquote data-quote="AereonBlaze" data-source="post: 573099" data-attributes="member: 7886"><p>I played online in a 3-person game for 6 months or so. We played using AOL Instant Messenger. I know, there's a lot of better ways to play online than using AIM, but their chat rooms do have a nifty hidden dice rolling feature (type //roll-dice1-sides20 for rolling 1d20 for example). We used <a href="http://3ep.rpgprofiler.net/" target="_blank">http://3ep.rpgprofiler.net/</a> for storing character sheets online and having access to everyone else's ingame. Very useful site.</p><p></p><p>The ups? You can get a good handle on most situations simply since its all written out. It also makes the DM's job easier if he prepares room descriptions/encounters beforehand and copy/pastes. The downs...sometimes its a bit slow moving and hard to stay focused. Make sure your group members aren't doing other things at the same time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Still, if your DM prepares ahead of time, slow gaming probably wont be a problem. There are some nice programs out there specifically for D&D online (OpenRPG and WebRPG for example - I think) which allow maps/miniatures etc., so you might want to check those out if you havent already.</p><p></p><p>Despite the downsides, it was fun since it still gave us the oppertunity to game with each other despite not being able to meet for games IRL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AereonBlaze, post: 573099, member: 7886"] I played online in a 3-person game for 6 months or so. We played using AOL Instant Messenger. I know, there's a lot of better ways to play online than using AIM, but their chat rooms do have a nifty hidden dice rolling feature (type //roll-dice1-sides20 for rolling 1d20 for example). We used [URL]http://3ep.rpgprofiler.net/[/URL] for storing character sheets online and having access to everyone else's ingame. Very useful site. The ups? You can get a good handle on most situations simply since its all written out. It also makes the DM's job easier if he prepares room descriptions/encounters beforehand and copy/pastes. The downs...sometimes its a bit slow moving and hard to stay focused. Make sure your group members aren't doing other things at the same time. :D Still, if your DM prepares ahead of time, slow gaming probably wont be a problem. There are some nice programs out there specifically for D&D online (OpenRPG and WebRPG for example - I think) which allow maps/miniatures etc., so you might want to check those out if you havent already. Despite the downsides, it was fun since it still gave us the oppertunity to game with each other despite not being able to meet for games IRL. [/QUOTE]
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