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Most of the tools that were suggested seemed more suited to live sessions... OpenRPG, for example. I also really like the look of RPTools. However, with players in different time zones, I'd like to avoid the hassle of trying to set up live sessions. I would prefer to find something that is simple enough that Matt could keep up with on his smartphone if his computer (which has been notoriously unreliable) goes on the fritz again. Making the game smartphone friendly would make it easier for me to respond as well. A message board might be best... perhaps something like the forum tab in Obsidian Portal? Anybody ever used smartphones to facilitate an RPG?
I'll be researching this a bit more in the coming days. Matt and Quim, I'll keep you updated.
Hey Josh,
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this?
http://www.forumotion.com/
Why not create our own Rifts-game forum?
Myth-Weavers is almost certainly your best option.
ReplyDeleteAdvertising of games which aren't forum based isn't allowed without permission from the admins but as your game already exists you can make a private forum. and use maptool or openrpg. If you play prtly on the forum they'll let you dvertsie as well.
It is easily the most advanced site for hosting a game, gives GMs the most control, has multitude of character sheets which can be rolled from directly.
Oh, and it's totally free, you don't pay to get extra features, they are all free.
Do I sound a bit taken with the place, I'm, it totally ruined the experience of using other sites, I just can't live without it's features now.
Just got sent here from a Skype chatroom by one of our members.
ReplyDeleteI am one of the aforementioned admins. I don't think the guy who sent me read your blog post properly. You aren't already running on OpenRPG, not that it matters anyway if you want the game to remain private. You can do anything you like short of porn in a private game.
It looks like your best option would be a standard thread based game anyhow so if you ever did want to recruit additional players advertising wouldn't be an issue.
If you do join PM me (Plugsy) and let me know what you think. Also I'm working on a timeline based map extension to the site and I've been looking for a WH40K gamer to discuss how to support gridless skirmish games.
Site is at
http://www.myth-weavers.com
A discussion and limited demo of the map tool can be found in the site discussion title something like, [suggestion] - battle mats.
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely give these a look. I also just realized that I hadn't considered Google Groups, so I'm going to give that a look as well.
ReplyDelete@Plugsy: I think a map extension that could be used for games like 40K would be excellent. There is a program for 40K out there somewhere, but I can't seem to recall the name of it. I'm not much of a programmer, but if I can help in any way, I'd be glad to. I'll be checking out myth-weavers ASAP.