Comments on: Digital Roles: Two Calls For Help

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:39:26 +0000

I see lots of help for TS coming in, but don’t forget Ruan’s question. I do like the way that people aren’t just making suggestions, they are explaining the reasons why they think their suggestion might be a good one. Keep the solid advice coming, folks!

By: Brent P. Newhall

Brent P. Newhall — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:03:17 +0000

Cool question!

From what I’ve seen, online gaming is highly character-focused, and combat tends to run at a high level–you don’t go thirteen rounds with a group of bugbears.

So, I’d recommend a story-oriented system like FATE, which I love but have yet to be able to play, or even building a system out of FUDGE. I think you’ll want a simple system that concentrates on building interesting characters rather than simulating every aspect of combat mechanics.

http://www.faterpg.com/dl/

http://www.fudgerpg.com/fudge.html

Brent P. Newhall’s last blog post..How Much Planning Do You Need?

By: Shannnon

Shannnon — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:57:06 +0000

For online roleplaying the best bet if you want an experience as close to what you get in real life would be to use a virtual tabletop. Some of the better VTs are expensive to use because they require a monthly subscription, however, Fantasy Grounds II requires you simply buy licence for it (the DM licence costs more then the player licence) but its a good program.
OpenRPG is another relatively good VT, and is free. Its also not system specific, so you could play anything from WoD to DnD

By: Loz

Loz — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:27:13 +0000

Simple is often best, yes, and I have proof.
Anther option is play-by-forum : One of my rules sytems was adopted last year by a swiss/french play-by-forum RPG in the world of Eragon (15000 players as of last information). The game is called “Instant Game”, which should be a hint as to its simplicity :) “Three minutes to present the world. Four minutes to explain the rules. Five minutes to create the character, and off we go…”

I could get you the link to the forum and the administrator who automated the dice rolls, but since they play in French, I suspect this might be of little help… unless you speak French? In which cas I can e-mail you adress of where to download the games’ system and the forum link and let you compare it to your perceived needs. (Proud subnote : This game has proven so elegant and popular I’ve been asked for twenty printed copies of it by Games Masters over the past four years)

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:06 +0000

http://www.rpgvirtualtabletop.com/
Not sure if this fits the bill, perhaps more of a simultaneous remote playing rather than PBEM or posting disjointly.

http://www.dungeonaday.com/
provides continuing content for a massive dungeon crawl.

http://www.obsidianportal.com/
Is a good site with upgraded account you have a fourm which is where you could play, and the wiki/adventure logs can be used to great effect keeping people up to date, and/or answering questions about the past any players might have.

Those are my recommendations…