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Recently, Tiger and I have been exchanging some old D&D war stories. Believe it or not, he came up with this brilliant idea of having a campaign here on the forums. Yeah I was shocked too (just kidding Bro :p ). Any ways… we’d like to see who’s interested. We already know there are some great role-players here, and that’s the most important part of gaming.
So if you’re interested post here. Please include your knowledge of the 3.5 Edition and forum gaming (is there an official name?). Also state if you’d be willing to DM a campaign. No experience required to play of course. :)

The D&D 3.5 rules are available here for free…
http://www.d20srd.org/

Here are some examples of forum gaming…
http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=play

Character generator...
http://www.pathguy.com/cg35lite.htm
 
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I've never played/DM'd a campaign on a forum/message board. Back in the day I played in a friends campaign he had on TSN/INN (Club House). I know the 3.5 rules and evenually would DM a campaign. But currently I'd much rather be a player :)

We could always take turns DM'g a campaign.
 
Tiger

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My experiance is even less... I've played a lil with friends from my old job, but don't have the experiance GM/DM'ing....

I'm good at running up to gargantian spiders though, and trying to hit it with a sword... (Even though my primary job is spell casting)....
 
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Fleetwood

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Now would this campaign be a "real-time" kind of thing, or a "DM describes the scene, players tell what they want to do, DM resolves things in as entertaining manner as possible, repeat" kind of thing?
 
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Fleetwood

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Thanks for the link.

By "real time" I meant a scheduled time where players would be refreshing their browsers and playing at the same time, vs checking sporadically to see what has happened.
 
Tiger

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Well, we want this to be open... People work too... So I would say check it periodicly... :?: Thats my suggestion anyway... :D

Interested in DM'ing? :wink:
 
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Fleetwood

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Possibly.

My D&D campaign has tried to use "web enhancement" by communicating through email that we nicknamed OGRE (Out of Game Roleplay Experience) to use in between our regular game to let players role-play actions or NPC encounters that would be meaningful to them, but would bore everyone else and take up valuable game time.

It works best in situations where such interactions happen most (e.g. urban adventures). It was never designed for running combats or be the primary adventuring outlet.

That being said, if people want a "directed storytelling roleplay game" where the DM could resolve the usual die rolling events through dialog and judicial fiat, that could be arranged.
 
Tiger

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I suppose all we can do is try. If your interested in getting a game started, post in the Game on Forum... http://yserbius.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=272

With game information... Uhmmm... We were working on a DM tool... Though, I'm not sure what happened to it... Slo? Ya look at that online public Char sheets thingy?

Or for now, people can make their chars herer http://www.pathguy.com/cg35lite.htm then email their spread sheet it... Though they have to keep track of MP/HP/EXP/Money themselves I supposed... Each time they post, they could provide you that info... As a quick refrence...
 
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Fleetwood said:
a "directed storytelling roleplay game" where the DM could resolve the usual die rolling events through dialog and judicial fiat, that could be arranged.
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This is what I'm thinking... it'll be difficult to get people together and play, 'specially if thier in different time zones and such.
 
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