Tinker Gnome
Adventurer
This is related to Glyfair's thread about online Gaming. What do you like about online Gaming of you who do do it?
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What do you like about Gaming online?
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Silvercat Moonpaw
Adventurer
I don't have to travel.
fissionessence
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1) I get to play more.
2) The players might be more invested in the game than most people I know :-\
3) I can meet new people [online] without having to spend time 'making friends' or anything outside the game. (Yes, antisocial, I know.)
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2) The players might be more invested in the game than most people I know :-\
3) I can meet new people [online] without having to spend time 'making friends' or anything outside the game. (Yes, antisocial, I know.)
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Tequila Sunrise
Adventurer
Well, online gaming is the only way I can game at all so that should be self-explanatory. Other than that, nothing. I'd rather play live, but whaddya gonna do?
Aberzanzorax
Hero
Ditto to Tequila Sunrise.
Arkhandus
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For one thing, it lets me play despite the fact that I have no face-to-face group anymore. I live at almost the opposite end of the country now from where my friends live, and it's not easy to get a new, let alone consistent, gaming group together. Particularly for any given game system and day/time slot. My few attempts here in Arizona have flopped, after a few weeks or a few months. I can far more easily find a group online who's game and style are at least acceptable to me. I've now been playing and DMing with a particular group over OpenRPG for the past 7-8 years. And have played briefly with several other groups online.
Secondly, it's possible to find a game or start a game at any given day and time that I'm available and have access to my computer. Sometimes it means I'm gaming with folks from the other side of the U.S., or people in Europe, Australia, South America, or wherever. And that's neat.
Thirdly, it's a lot easier (and like a million times more likely) to find people for a game other than D&D or another major system. Even if it's still not particularly easy to do so.
Primarily it's just #1, but #2 and #3 are nice aspects as well. And even if I still lived in my hometown, my friends are flaky about gaming so I hardly got to play much D&D with them, let alone anything else, so I was starting to seek out additional groups or means of gaming even when I was there.
I game primarily over OpenRPG now, which is essentially like a chat-program melded with a map and some tools like a diceroller and character sheet/notes stuff (in the form of nodes). But for the past year or two I've been PbPing on EN World as well (which is very slow and unreliable), and I've tried a few PBeMs before but they proved even more unreliable.
Secondly, it's possible to find a game or start a game at any given day and time that I'm available and have access to my computer. Sometimes it means I'm gaming with folks from the other side of the U.S., or people in Europe, Australia, South America, or wherever. And that's neat.
Thirdly, it's a lot easier (and like a million times more likely) to find people for a game other than D&D or another major system. Even if it's still not particularly easy to do so.
Primarily it's just #1, but #2 and #3 are nice aspects as well. And even if I still lived in my hometown, my friends are flaky about gaming so I hardly got to play much D&D with them, let alone anything else, so I was starting to seek out additional groups or means of gaming even when I was there.
I game primarily over OpenRPG now, which is essentially like a chat-program melded with a map and some tools like a diceroller and character sheet/notes stuff (in the form of nodes). But for the past year or two I've been PbPing on EN World as well (which is very slow and unreliable), and I've tried a few PBeMs before but they proved even more unreliable.
Treebore
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I use SKYPE, a free on line program that works much like a phone, except it can "conference call" a lot of people.
For mapping we use Maptools from rptools.net.
Why do I like it? No travelling, which saves a LOT of time. I stay home, which my wife likes. It makes my PDF's much more useful, because I can use the maps and pictures in Maptools. Its allowed me to find about 5 games to play in or run each week. I get to sit in my favorite chair. I can be in my underwear, if I wished. I was at home when a couple of emergencies occurred, which also made my wife very happy. I don't have to worry about anyone pigging out on my munchies or drinks. I don't have to worry about the last time anyone bathed. Its allowed me to get to know people living in other parts of the USA, Canada, Argentina, and South Korea. Several of the people like talking about gaming just as much as I do.
We also typically game for 3 to 4 hours, and we do much more gaming and far less talking than I typically see in face to face games.
I not only get to play C&C, but Warhammer, Traveller, Gear Kreig, Aces and Eights, Twilight 2000, L5R, Shadowrun 4E, 4E D&D, and several other games I can't recall right now. Plus we have Twilight 2013 coming up, and we are going to do a btb 1E game soon to see if the rules really were as bad as we think. We have yet to choose the module.
So yeah, I like on line gaming a lot. I certainly wouldn't have played all these various systems over the last few years if I only did face to face.
In fact, now that I have become very accustomed to online gaming (been doing it for nearly 3 years now), over all I prefer it to face to face.
For mapping we use Maptools from rptools.net.
Why do I like it? No travelling, which saves a LOT of time. I stay home, which my wife likes. It makes my PDF's much more useful, because I can use the maps and pictures in Maptools. Its allowed me to find about 5 games to play in or run each week. I get to sit in my favorite chair. I can be in my underwear, if I wished. I was at home when a couple of emergencies occurred, which also made my wife very happy. I don't have to worry about anyone pigging out on my munchies or drinks. I don't have to worry about the last time anyone bathed. Its allowed me to get to know people living in other parts of the USA, Canada, Argentina, and South Korea. Several of the people like talking about gaming just as much as I do.
We also typically game for 3 to 4 hours, and we do much more gaming and far less talking than I typically see in face to face games.
I not only get to play C&C, but Warhammer, Traveller, Gear Kreig, Aces and Eights, Twilight 2000, L5R, Shadowrun 4E, 4E D&D, and several other games I can't recall right now. Plus we have Twilight 2013 coming up, and we are going to do a btb 1E game soon to see if the rules really were as bad as we think. We have yet to choose the module.
So yeah, I like on line gaming a lot. I certainly wouldn't have played all these various systems over the last few years if I only did face to face.
In fact, now that I have become very accustomed to online gaming (been doing it for nearly 3 years now), over all I prefer it to face to face.
Treebore
First Post
DL SKYPE and Maptools (we started out with OpenRPG too) and you can have a game practically every night, except Saturdays, between 6 PM to 9 PM. Mondays is Warhammer right now, but will soon be switching to something else. Tuesday, Wed, Fri, and Sundays are Castles and Crusades. Starting next week Thursdays will be L5R 3E (D10) for 7 to 10 weeks. After that I believe I am running Twilight 2013, or maybe Aces and Eights.
If your a 4E/3E fan we won't hold it against you, as long as you can accept our liking C&C, and Warhammer, and various others systems. Several of us even played 4E for a few months, and we like it well enough, its just far from being our favorite. Many of us are ex 3E players too.
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