Weimann
2010-02-11, 07:07 PM
Agents are... GO!
No seriously now.
My problem is thus. I have an urge to role-play, but I have neither time nor connections to drum up a group. I study law, which requires a fair deal of dedicated time, and I'm therefore looking for some way to play a medium-length session once (or maybe twice) a week, without all the hassle around it. The net would be a perfect medium; switch on, game, switch off. Planned and orderly, and executed all from my own desk. Great.
So why not PbP, you ask? I have tried it, I have not been satisfied. It's not my manner of beast. Admittedly, it's the perfect time management. You need 10 minutes a day to compose a post, and it's utterly up to you when. It's just that 10 minutes a day makes for a very diluted experience. I have a hard time keeping my interest up. It just doesn't do it for me.
So what I want is a way to play in session-format, but with a simple and set time schedule. Naturally, this can be done over MSN or similar, but I've understood that there are dedicated programs for it, with abilities to render maps over areas and handle dice rolls. I know of MapTools, and what I've seen of it I like, but it's a bit too D&D centric for my taste (then again, I might be wrong and it's great for all systems).
There are surely other venues. In case it matters, I'm looking primarily for Exalted or nWoD games, but can also play D&D 3.5 or 4e (although I don't have that many books available to me for those last ones). I have just recently acquired a new computer (Yesterday! Weee!) running Windows 7. It has pretty good stats, I think (without being an expert).
What options do I have?
No seriously now.
My problem is thus. I have an urge to role-play, but I have neither time nor connections to drum up a group. I study law, which requires a fair deal of dedicated time, and I'm therefore looking for some way to play a medium-length session once (or maybe twice) a week, without all the hassle around it. The net would be a perfect medium; switch on, game, switch off. Planned and orderly, and executed all from my own desk. Great.
So why not PbP, you ask? I have tried it, I have not been satisfied. It's not my manner of beast. Admittedly, it's the perfect time management. You need 10 minutes a day to compose a post, and it's utterly up to you when. It's just that 10 minutes a day makes for a very diluted experience. I have a hard time keeping my interest up. It just doesn't do it for me.
So what I want is a way to play in session-format, but with a simple and set time schedule. Naturally, this can be done over MSN or similar, but I've understood that there are dedicated programs for it, with abilities to render maps over areas and handle dice rolls. I know of MapTools, and what I've seen of it I like, but it's a bit too D&D centric for my taste (then again, I might be wrong and it's great for all systems).
There are surely other venues. In case it matters, I'm looking primarily for Exalted or nWoD games, but can also play D&D 3.5 or 4e (although I don't have that many books available to me for those last ones). I have just recently acquired a new computer (Yesterday! Weee!) running Windows 7. It has pretty good stats, I think (without being an expert).
What options do I have?