Freelance Henchman
2008-10-17, 05:21 PM
Hello all, maybe someone here can help me with this.
I want to start playing D&D (3.5 ed.) over the Internet with the OpenRPG (http://www.openrpg.com/) software. My RPG experience is as player of a non-D&D tabletop system long ago (Das Schwarze Auge, a german game) and the various D&D CRPGs (Baldur's Gate, IWD, Neverwinter Nights 1&2). I've played quite a bunch of NWN2 on persistent worlds, and am quite familiar with the D&D mechanics as implemented in those games.
Now I've been talking to some people from the PWs who would like to try a game of "real", i.e. tabletop pen&paper D&D, but don't have a group to play with in real life (neither do I), so we thought we could give it a go online. It looks like I will be trying to DM (I got the DMG).
Now, the problems are manifold, i.e. I have never DM'ed, none of us know the tabletop D&D rules too well, and we are unfamiliar with the software (though we have fooled around with it a bit and it doesn't seem too bad). I suggested to the others that we start rolling some very standard characters, maybe using NWN2 to help compare with the resulting stats. I would read up in the DMG and try to make a tiny test adventure (kill a single goblin in a cave or something).
I'd appreciate any help in this matter, hints for a newbie on DMing or reports of your own experience using OpenRPG would be great.
I want to start playing D&D (3.5 ed.) over the Internet with the OpenRPG (http://www.openrpg.com/) software. My RPG experience is as player of a non-D&D tabletop system long ago (Das Schwarze Auge, a german game) and the various D&D CRPGs (Baldur's Gate, IWD, Neverwinter Nights 1&2). I've played quite a bunch of NWN2 on persistent worlds, and am quite familiar with the D&D mechanics as implemented in those games.
Now I've been talking to some people from the PWs who would like to try a game of "real", i.e. tabletop pen&paper D&D, but don't have a group to play with in real life (neither do I), so we thought we could give it a go online. It looks like I will be trying to DM (I got the DMG).
Now, the problems are manifold, i.e. I have never DM'ed, none of us know the tabletop D&D rules too well, and we are unfamiliar with the software (though we have fooled around with it a bit and it doesn't seem too bad). I suggested to the others that we start rolling some very standard characters, maybe using NWN2 to help compare with the resulting stats. I would read up in the DMG and try to make a tiny test adventure (kill a single goblin in a cave or something).
I'd appreciate any help in this matter, hints for a newbie on DMing or reports of your own experience using OpenRPG would be great.