[TML] A census

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Timo Nevalainen <tneva82 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Howabout alternative idea. If you can organise people to be online at the same time why not use program called Vassal(or something similar) to host the game session?

The email/chat game I'm in is considering going to something called
"openrpg" which I supposed is similar.  Once I get that figured out as
a player, I'd feel better about running something with it (or Vassal
or whatever) as a GM.

> Vassal is designed to play miniature games over the internet but it has chat abilities and ability to generate pretty much any kind of dice roll so everybody could roll their dice publicly. Don't know what else hosting RPG would really need? Maybe some web page to spread character sheets etc quickly?

I think that's called a wiki . . . :)

>And if someone has motivation enough you could even use vassal for combats if you prefer miniatures when playing face to face.

I do like to use miniatures.  I'm cheap, though.  I use cardboard ones
(I posted my method for making these a while back) and also stuff like
green/grey plastic army men and little toy animals.  I've got a
chewed-on grayish baboon figurine - stolen from a niece's toy box -
that my last group learned to fear.  Openrpg is supposed to be really
good at letting you draw maps and move markers on-line, so if we use
that I'll see how it goes.

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Richard Aiken

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