Sharing information: the Table map

[Thoughtbot360]

Reading on the curiousity that is the Western Marches campaign concept. I decided to run my own game. However, when it came to Sharing Info I hit a snag.

See, I play a game over the internet with OpenRPG, and I am not able to provide the players with any way for them to leave clues to other players that did not attend their sessions.

As the campaign went on all the PCs would gather around it, quaff an ale, and plan adventures. In the real world it was a single sheet of graph paper with the town and the neighboring areas drawn in pretty well, and then about four or five more pieces of graph paper taped on haphazardly whenever someone wandered off the edge or explored just a little bit farther. Because the map was in a public place and any PC could get to it, I brought it to every game session for the PCs to add to or edit and kept a reasonably up-to-date scanned copy on the web for reference between games. In the end maybe half a dozen different players had put their hand to it.

Basically, I need to somehow upload an image to the internet, and allow players (potentially very new and casual ones who won't put up with too much instruction), and let them basically just scribble all over it or leave markers or something. Something similar to Twitter's "Red Balloon" Contest, where people found balloons and could use twitter and other social networking sites to help (or sabotage) people's search.

[Gralamin]

Reading on the curiousity that is the Western Marches campaign concept. I decided to run my own game. However, when it came to Sharing Info I hit a snag.

See, I play a game over the internet with OpenRPG, and I am not able to provide the players with any way for them to leave clues to other players that did not attend their sessions.



Basically, I need to somehow upload an image to the internet, and allow players (potentially very new and casual ones who won't put up with too much instruction), and let them basically just scribble all over it or leave markers or something. Something similar to Twitter's "Red Balloon" Contest, where people found balloons and could use twitter and other social networking sites to help (or sabotage) people's search.

Try Dabbleboard. It might be just what you need.