Re: Dungeons and Dragons Players? Anybody?
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Dracoluna
LOL! Ok, that just made both my and my hubby's night reading that first part. I'm the only girl in our group but seeing as either my husband or I DM, the guys better shower or they get to go back home and don't get fed. You'd be amazed at how big of an incentive home cooking can be. ;)
I'm still trying to find ways to make Skype work well for gaming and if anyone has any thoughts, let me know. We have a gaming table that's 8'x4' and I can put the mic in the middle but it's still hard to hear on both ends. Granted, it's hooked up to my laptop but the guys on Skype want to be able to see the table for layout as well. The only idea I've gotten so far is to install a camera directly above the table but I draw the line at that one.
Glad I could help with the laugh! We used a web cam supported by a lego structure to give perspective on the map when we'd skype. (Usually when players were sick or couldn't drive - at the time I was playing with a group that 2/3 of us drove more than an hour to get there, but it was one of the only sane groups of "adults.") It is also fun if you use legos/minifigs/minis because we'd take the camera down to mini level when the map wasn't needed and it was neat to watch the marching order and such. We only had trouble with the mic when we used the one guy's Dell notebook as it would feedback, my "held together with electrical tape" macbook was always clean and crisp.
I wonder if anyone knows about this website a guy in Canada tried to get me to play on? I've long forgotten the name of it or the system it was running, but it was created for online P&PGing through a web browser: You had a written chat system that you could whisper to the GM or talk to the group, the map took up most of the screen and showed your token person and their line of sight, and it also had buttons to roll dice and control your token's actions. To be honest, it was the roughest thing I'd ever seen, looked worse than 8-bit, but with a little improvement it could be ok addition to a skype game. Anyone have any idea of what I'm trying to remember?:confused:
