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Message: <blockquote data-quote="awayfarer" data-source="post: 3014883" data-attributes="member: 42702">I started gaming two years ago, in two very different games at roughly the same time. I'll arbitrarily label them Group #1 and Group #2, although I really don't recall which started first and I'm fairly certain I strted with each within about two weeks of each other.Group #1 was made of of about 3 people in California and 4 (Including the GM) in Boston. We played using the original Rolemaster system and chatted over the phone. The trouble was that we all needed to be conference called in to play and that led to all sorts of trouble. It was also much tougher to get information across when you two halves of each group that have no visual contact with each other. It  was a live game in the sense that you had a few other people in the room but not precisely seeing as half the group lived on the opposite coast.Group #2 was already using Openrpg when I joined and there was definitely a difference between the two. Games ran much smoother with everyones attention focused towards one screen. I also noticed that the Open group was much less hesitant to RP. The anonymity of the interweb helps towards getting in character and having all your character info right on your PC or stored somewhere digitally is better than having a ton of paper floating around on a table.The decision was eventually made to switch to Openrpg after a fellow player saw me playing with Group #2 and noted how smoothly everything went by comparison. It definitely made sense for this group to switch over. Group #1 still uses phones and I will admit that sometimes it is easier to get information across vocally, but I really prefer text simply because if you want to know what someone said a minute or two ago, you can simply scroll back up and it's all written out there. This is a big plus for me since my memory is essentially garbage.Just thought I'd mention, Hussar is the DM of group #2.</blockquote>

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