Playing Over Google Documents

Posted: May 25, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Homebrew, Legacy D&D, Meta, Online Gaming, Other Hobby, Other Systems, RPG, Warhammer 40k | 1 Comment »

I have had fairly strange interests in RPG games. My first roleplay experience was when I was ten at a freeform play-by-post forum. When I learned D&D 3.5, I was 14 and had nobody to play with. So I played it over MSN Messenger with some friends. Since then I’ve played a lot more maptools, chat games, and play-by-posts than real life stuff. I’ve always liked running the game with text. I think it lets you do some fun story stuff that you couldn’t do around a table because people don’t have the text they can go back to, manipulate, or take their time with. The way I play takes more time than a normal game, but I enjoy it, especially because I have limited time to allot to running games over Maptools or Google Hangouts. I can play more leisurely. Google Documents has been a big help hosting play by post stuff for me. So I thought I’d briefly discuss how I play on it.

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Expedition Playtest One-Shot

Posted: July 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Expedition, Meta, News, Online Gaming, Other Systems, RPG | 2 Comments »

I’m thinking of running a game of Expedition over IRC at some point soon. The game would be a simple dungeon one-shot – you would start with an amount of Expedition Points give by me, to you, in order to expedite adventuring through one or two levels of a dungeon (or as far as we can get in like 4 or 5 hours). There’ll be fights, traps, and a little bit of roleplaying, though not a huge deal because this isn’t really meant to be a whole game experience, just testing some stuff. I haven’t actually GMed over IRC for ages now, so I may be a bit slow on the uptake, but I will try my best to give you a fun little test of the game. If you can’t make a character, I’ll probably have some written up, albeit I still don’t have a form-fillable sheet ready.

I’d like to have four players, optimally. I don’t really have the time to commit to a solid IRC campaign, so the IRC stuff is quite likely going to be one shots here and there to test out perks and things. As it stands, I don’t have any required perks I want to see, though I’d like to have one of each normal class, no monster classes. Later on if possible I’ll ask to test out the monster party, and then a mixed party. For this particular session we probably won’t be fighting a Leader monster. Anyway, if you’re interested, leave a comment with times and dates within the next week you might be able to make. I can make probably anything. I’m in the Eastern time zone.

If anybody would be interested in an actual campaign I can run one by forum. Or on google wave, since that actually still exists for some reason. Not google plus though, that’s way too funky for me right now.

Looking for a D&D 3.5 Maptools game?

Posted: May 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: D&D 3.5, Legacy D&D, Online Gaming, RPG | 3 Comments »

Recently had a sort of test session for a 3.5 game – would’ve been a fuller session, but most of the group disappeared. So I thought I’d do my part and help the GM out by asking if anybody’d be interested in playing. The GM is getting back into the groove of things after a year’s absence from D&D, but he has interesting ideas and his heart’s in the right place. So if you’re interested, read on.

•You can contact the GM at this email address: a_bomb37[at]hotmail.com. Ask for character generation help and setting fluff, and he’ll deliver it. You can talk to him over AOL Instant Messenger too, but ask him about that.

•The game uses D&D 3.5. The GM allows any book published by Wizard’s of the Coast EXCEPT for the Book of Exalted Deeds or Vile Darkness. This means your tome of battle or psionic character is totally welcome. The game is Level 5 and is mostly a sandbox-y kind of campaign. Right now the two characters (me and another guy) who’ve joined up are probably gonna go tramp around in the mountains to explore a cave abandoned by a gold dragon once affiliated with Bahamut.

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My First GM: A Very Special Interview

Posted: May 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Adventures, Campaigns, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Legacy D&D, Online Gaming, Other Systems, RPG | 2 Comments »

Charles, known online as Master Epyon or Shalazah, was basically the dude who corrupted me, bringing me into the dark cult of RPG games one fateful day over MSN Messenger. He basically told me that an RPG was like playing out a story but with rules, kinda like if I could write my own RPG video game. I signed up pretty much immediately as the Half Elf Wizard Wyatt Salazar and the rest was history. He helped me roll up (actually roll up, 4d6 drop lowest) my first character for D&D 3.5. I’ve been wanting to write something about him on the blog for a while, and so I hit him up over an online chat to get an interview going.

BOLD text indicates my questions and normal text indicates his answers.

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Wizard’s Virtual Game Table

Posted: December 11, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D&D 4e, Legacy D&D, News, Online Gaming, Products, RPG | 2 Comments »

I got an invite to Wizard’s Virtual Game Table and I hung out on it with Dave from Critical Hits and Quinn from At Will, who are now the only cyber denizens who have heard my glorious voice in all of its glorious glory. I also have screenshots. My initial impression is that this could be a pretty good and accessible product with more polish, and that of course it is a beta so it’s not going to be mind-blowing right now, but I like the look of it, and I managed to discern all the player functions from just looking through tabs for a few minutes, and it feels pretty stable. With that said, let’s look into it.

For reference purposes: my computer is a Macbook Pro 2.4 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, running Mac OS X 10.6.5, and I have 4 GB of 1067 mhz DDR3 RAM.

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Google Wave Seems Kaput

Posted: August 4, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Campaigns, News, Online Gaming, RPG | 3 Comments »

In what is a very sad bit of news for me as a huge fan of the platform, Google has posted today that the end of Google Wave is near as user adoption is not what they wanted. It’s understandable but very sad. I enjoyed using Google Wave not just for gaming, but as a collaboration tool on RPG projects. Moving my games back to forums, particularly games which took advantage of Google Wave’s intra-document commenting features to run different characters in separate but concurrent locations and plots (a lot of which I’ve been doing recently) will be rather annoying and inelegant. Google Wave was really a perfect storm of features all of which I grew happy with and accustomed to. I can only hope that the technology, when eventually folded into something else, still resembles Wave enough that I could go back to using it again. It’s been fun, it’s been useful and I mourn its passing.

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