I love D&D, but im not a big fan of online D&D XD
Neverwinter Nights is the furthest I'll get away from tabletop

I think using the chat and virtual tabletop features of the tools linked would make it closer to a real tabletop than NWN :P

Nah :P

Well if you like I could try one out... I'm a DM but I've never tried it online before though.

Oh awesome. :) And you responded to this journal pretty quickly, which means you might well be around when we'd want to play. I'll talk more with Tora about this tomorrow. :)

Well I try my best to please, not too mention if you guys are one EST then it makes everything a lot easier

Well... I'm in AEST... ^^;
And Tora's in Canada...

AEST?

Well ok ok I think that won't be a big issue in any case... so what edition were you thinking of using?

Does that work for 4th Ed?

I don't see why not. I've gone over the tutorials and while it has a lot of dice rolling macros and extra stuff, the core thing is the battle grid, and that could work for pretty much any game that uses a grid, squares or hexes.

Thats certainly how 4th Ed works... this might be a nice alternative while the official online gaming system is still in development, i guess. =)

Something tells me the official one will be Windows only. :P This is cross-platform.

Are you a fellow mac user? =O

I've been looking for reasons to play this game :O BUT.... you'd have to go through the rules with me first...

Depending on if we went 3.5e or 4e, I'd have to learn too :P

Maybe.

If it comes down to make or break situation and you need another player, note me, but I don't think it'll come to that.

Cool, I'll keep you in mind then.

I might want to play if you don't mind because I've been want to get in to D&D for years.

I've had no good D&D for quite somet ime, now... I'm almost considering IM roleplaying.

Hope you find something good, though.

I've always been fascinated by D&D, never had the friends who were into it though :/

I'd definitely like to give it a shot. Those RPtools look awesome.

i would be so into that been a long time since i played D&D would be nice to have a chat room and with programs that everyone can see each other and what they role .

I prefer rolling real dice myself, but people don't seem to be willing to trust me with that :P

last time i had dice i thought they where skittles ^^

last time i had dice i thought they where skittles ^^

Awesome, that's a number of people interested. :) I'll talk with Tora and probably Toutatis about this tomorrow, see what we can hammer out :)

heh Ive always wanted to get in to dnd

If you still need another player after the above offers, I'm available. I've only got the resources for 3.0/3.5 though >. > But I'm already used to OpenRPG (another online grid/chatroom), so RPTools wouldn't be far off ^^ And if the DM of your campaign needs any help, I've got quite a bit of experience there, so don't be afraid to note me =D

OpenRPG, huh? What's that like? I couldn't find any screenshots of it. Does it have line-of-sight and fog of war support?

Well, it's not exactly pretty XD Here's a quick screenshot I took:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2139019/

You can do a lot of stuff. You can upload your own backgrounds, upload your own images for miniatures (usually from urls), refine rolling macros and character sheets (the Gametree stuff opens into tabled windows). You can have images snap to the grid, change the grid to squares or hexes of whatever size you want, zoom in and out, make chat filters (it comes pre-loaded with "pirate") and aliases (aka, you can have a bunch of different names saved with different colors and fonts). You can draw on it, and there is a "fog" feature, but the DM has to hide and reveal stuff manually. There's no line-of-sight thing that I've been able to find though, and looking at screenshots of RPTools, that's a pretty cool feature.

From what I'm seeing, OpenRPG is a down-and-dirty version of RPTools. It's really simple and easily modifiable, but RPTools seems to have much better maps and tokens. I'll probably download and play with RPTools tomorrow to see how much better it is.

I recommend checking out the tutorials on the site ^^

Okay, RPTools is really cool. I think I'm going to have to shift over to it now XD Good luck getting your campaign started!

Heck yes! Include meh! I'd love to play. :3

Well I for one would love to have you in the group ^^

I'd like to come to. There's no way to play around here AND I AM DYING ZOMG

I've got a group that uses a horribly outdated but still valid platform, called Fantasy Grounds. We use the original, not the new one, but we do a lot less Dice rolling, a lot more RPing, and a lot of Flexibility in Races.

I could try my luck at running. I've run offline games before, but my players are far too combat happy and anti-social which doesn't fit the style of games I want to run. I have some experience running online games (the ability to whisper individual bits to players is awesome and creates so many possibilities), but attendance was always a killer.

Plus I'd want to run a more mature setting. The kind of stuff that would make my RL group very uneasy and/or giggle like a bunch of immature kids. Think of, say, breaking up a slave ring and walking in on battered and bruised, naked slaves and having to confront a master that isn't afraid of using a hero's conscious against them. Or tempting a less scrupulous party with forbidden fruit.

That actually sounds interesting... :D

Yeah. I love putting the party in a world of grays. Most villians aren't really evil after all, and the party might even be able to sympathize with them. Either my attempts to do so so far have sucked, or my party doesn't appreciate it.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind running D&D again..or being in the game for D&D. RPTools..I'll have to look through, see what it's like..but hey, need a DM or another player..I could try to make it..

I'm down.

Man, I miss playing it. Really. It's so awesome.