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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Chat function for running games
I've pretty obvioiusly not done RPG via chat before, and I have some
questions/thoughts:
1. We'd need the ability to share files, such as graphics, like you'd have
in an online collaboration site
Google documents. We also used Skype to allow for conference chatting.
2. Ideally, real-time graphics sharing, like the counters moving on a
Brilliant Lances map or a ground map, but that probably outstrips freebies
from Yahoo
We've used Google Docs for that, too. Draw a picture.
3. Is there the ability to record the session's text for download and
saving after the sessions
4. I would expect to use the "invitation only" thing to keep it
manageable. However, I think it would be great to allow observers in
addition to players
GD/skype allows for that.
5. In text-based, distance RPGing, what are the accepted conventions for
die-rolling so everyone is comfortable that it is all clean?
I believe that #traveller has a dice function built in. Otherwise the GM
rolls all the dice or you find a dice website that will send the results to
the GM.
It could take me a while to get ready for this, but there is something I
would really like to do with/for this group.
Dave
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:48:21 -0400, Jeff Dougherty
<> wrote:
> He's got that look in his eyes, folks. Duck and cover.
> -JTD
> "Neil, if you had any guts you'd yell 'Oh my God, what is that thing?!',
> scream, and then cut your mic."
> - Michael Collins on the first words to be spoken on the Moon
>
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:15 PM, wrote:
>
> No kidding.
>
> That gives me an idea....
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:23:23 -0000, "dedtraveller" wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I use PbEM for my games but I understand it's not for everyone.
> > YahooGroups has chatroom functionality that you can use. All you
> would
> > need to do is start a new group and send invitations to your players.
> > There's various levels of privacy so you can make it "invite only" to
> > screen out the public if you want.
> >
> > _/
> > DED
> > TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
> >
> >
> >