Experiences with online games and recommendations?

psychoph

psychoph

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I am thinking about getting into an online game but I am wondering what to expect.


I am also wondering if anyone has suggestions of places to go that are noob friendly since I have never played Exalted and have only played Werewolf via email when it comes to over the internet games.  I have a good 5-7 years experience role-playing, I have been playing since I started college.  


I know about the exalted online at WW main page are there other places to go?  Do they have set meeting times or does it go like email where i respond to what the ST tells me when i have time to respond?
 
I find online games are best done on IRC in a similar fashion to a normal tabletop game.  Other forms of online games can be great if you do them right, but also can be slow and boring if done wrong.  


You might find something nice at www.rpol.net
 
I run one Exalted game and play in another online.  The pros are: you have more time to prepare text and dump it into the session, which means people who go into a game session and know what they are doing can get a tremendous amount of in-game stuff done in a short amount of time.  The cons are: everything runs about 3-4 times as slow online.  A simple combat can take a couple of hours to resolve unless you take measures to speed it up.


Gamers are naturally a little flakey, and online gamers don't have the added incentive of presence - be sure the people you play in a group with are at least somewhat reliable.
 
I'd recommend not playing online at all, but sometimes that isn't an option if you want to play.  If you're going to play online, I'd still recommend finding people that you already know or are familiar with.  As memesis said, gamers (heck, humans in general) aren't known for their honesty when they know they can get away with it.


Be prepared to have huge volumes of text to read just to be able to perform a few actions and move the scene along.

memesis said:
Gamers are naturally a little flakey.
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Hey, how did you know about my dandruff problems?
 
psychoph said:
I am thinking about getting into an online game but I am wondering what to expect.
I am also wondering if anyone has suggestions of places to go that are noob friendly since I have never played Exalted and have only played Werewolf via email when it comes to over the internet games.  I have a good 5-7 years experience role-playing, I have been playing since I started college.  


I know about the exalted online at WW main page are there other places to go?  Do they have set meeting times or does it go like email where i respond to what the ST tells me when i have time to respond?
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Given that all of my exalted gaming experience was via online, IRC and MuD. Admitedly, those games merely used the online medium, but were otherwise, similiar to tabletop games.


The timing in the games I'm in is on a set date and time, agreed to by all the players and the ST, if we're going to be late or can't make it... e-mails need to be sent to notify the ST so he can make adjustments.


And like Memesis said... there are differences, the posing for any action WILL eat up alot of time, as for rolling of die... well... white wolf has a die-roller at white-wolf.com/DiceRollers/


Personally, youir best bet is to start up a thread or find people that you know online who are willing to start up a game with you...
 
Thanks for the advice i will look at that stuff that has been posted.  I am beginning to realize time maybe a greater issue than finding a game as I seem to have limited time these days.
 
You could set out 1 day in every week... presumably the weekends for everyone concerned... and dedicate a block of a few hours for just the game. This is generlly the best way to go about if you're strapped for time
 
Haku said:
You could set out 1 day in every week... presumably the weekends for everyone concerned... and dedicate a block of a few hours for just the game. This is generlly the best way to go about if you're strapped for time
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UNfortunaely i already do that 2 days a week with other games.  I am in an L5r game and Deadlands.
 
Don't play in large games. Exalted characters want to be the center of attention, and you can't divide the attention 20 ways. WoD is different since the characters are often small fry.


Groups of 3-7 can work out fairly well, although there is the afore mentioned issue of people flaking out. If you can find some people you can rely on, I recommend using a message board. Games played in this way tend to move forward in smaller bits, but more reliably than a one-session-a-week tabletop game, averaging out to be slightly slower overall but still enjoyably paced.
 
I don't know about message board... as I find it's more fun using a chat program. But he IS right about the siz of the playing group. Typically, you don't want more then 5 players... at least from my experience. as anything more then that is a heavy load on both you and the players.
 
Maryuoh said:
Don't play in large games. Exalted characters want to be the center of attention, and you can't divide the attention 20 ways. WoD is different since the characters are often small fry.
Groups of 3-7 can work out fairly well, although there is the afore mentioned issue of people flaking out. If you can find some people you can rely on, I recommend using a message board. Games played in this way tend to move forward in smaller bits, but more reliably than a one-session-a-week tabletop game, averaging out to be slightly slower overall but still enjoyably paced.
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DO you have any messages boards you would recommend lookng at?  Message boards and email would definitely be easier on me since i could play at work when things are slow.
 
The 3rd Edition/Revised books, along with First and Second Editions, are considered to be part of WoD 1.0, which includes V: The Masquerade, M: The Ascension, and W: The Apocolypse. WoD 2.0 is the newer incarnation, the tweaked Storyteller system, with V: The Requiem, M: The Awakening, and W: The Forsaken.
 
Ah that makes more sense now.  I haven't even looked into the new stuff at all.  I heard that vampire and Werewolf weren't that great, but have heard rumblings that Mage is actually interesting.
 
they're both very different from the old games. and with very different base themes.


I happen to like them both with a slight preference towards the new werewolf. Although on the whole Forsaken has been received better than requiem.
 
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