Internet Games in real-time?

[Leitz]

A couple years ago I played an RPG on-line in real-time with some folks using a Python based web interface. Can't recall the name of it but am interested in playing Traveller and having fun. Location is always a pain but if we played on-line it might help.

Anyone know of on-line, not PbP, Traveller games happening?

L.

Addendum: The GUI was OpenRPG using wxPython.

 

[Tragin]

I am thinking you used OpenRPG. Here is a link to a list of Virtual table top systems: http://www.rpgvirtualtabletop.com/vts.html

 

[Gadrin]

Well we could always start one.

If you're not into dice-rolling, then you can use things like Google Chat or MSN Messenger, and let the GM handle the dice rolling. Then you don't need someone else's equipment/software.

What sort of games do you like ?

I just signed up for an online game on OpenRPG for Thursday nights.

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[Leitz]

At the moment I'd like to play, haven't in a while and any game I'd run would be fairly boring. I prefer story based games with back-story and stuff happening. Team work, group effort, etc. go far.

Of course, if T5 is available we can test it out. Otherwise I've played Traveller off and on since '78 so am pretty open. Rules don't make the game; players and DM's do.

You could run a game via IRC is you wanted, with a few web pages and pastebin for long stuff.

L

 

[Leitz]

Well we could always start one.

If you're not into dice-rolling, then you can use things like Google Chat or MSN Messenger, and let the GM handle the dice rolling. Then you don't need someone else's equipment/software.

What sort of games do you like ?

I just signed up for an online game on OpenRPG for Thursday nights.

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Pointer to the game, if they have open spots?

Meanwhile I'm seeing if I can make an IRC bot that would let us do ":roll".

L

 

[CosmicGamer]

I've been hoping for some real time chat-room type gaming.

Those multipurpose apps for playing may be useful but they barely work with my internet connection. Also, when I've tried it with a group, we spend lots of time configuring it and trying to figure it out.

Perhaps die roll issues can be taken care of without even loading an app on your computer - just set up a PbP game on RPOL and use the dice roller there? Also could use RPOL to store reference info like character and ship info, sub-sector data, and whatever else. It's also a place to chat (post) and plan and get miscellaneous stuff done outside of the regularly scheduled live game.

Just some thoughts. I'm looking for real time but I don't need o get fancy.

 

[Leitz]

CosmicGamer, can you do IRC? It's an old protocol but fairly lightweight. I've gotten the basic bot done, it generates a random number from 2-12. Now trying to see if I can make it use modifiers. The cool part, if I understand bots correctly, is that once I start the bot no one else has to run anything. You just give the command on IRC and the bot on my computer gives the result.

Yeah, I'm looking for real time. PbP is cool, and the MongTrav one I saw looked good. The DM has done lots of work and the players were prepping well together.

However, for me the ideal is real time, if we can swing it.

Let me know if you want to try the IRC thing.

L

 

[Leitz]

The bot is operational! Woo-hoo!

If anyone wants to do a code review of a Python stanza. let me know. The #python folks suggested Twisted and one of the examples gave me 95% of what I needed. Since I'm a newb Pythonista I'm pretty pleased.

The bot takes no args, or a single signed integer arg that can be a modifier. So you can give it a modifier and it produces the total.

In other news I can probably find some websites to put info on. A wiki might be useful, too.

L

 

[CosmicGamer]

Sure. I should be able to do the IRC thing. Would you happen to have a link to the software?

 

[Leitz]

Sure. I should be able to do the IRC thing. Would you happen to have a link to the software?

What Operating System are you running? IRC is a protocol and there are probably lots of options for you, depending on OS.

L

 

[Gadrin]

Pointer to the game, if they have open spots?

Meanwhile I'm seeing if I can make an IRC bot that would let us do ":roll".

L

It's not Traveller it's Heroes Unlimited/Rifts cross-over game.

Bot sounds cool.

I've run games using MSN Messenger, you can do the same with Google Chat which comes with Gmail. There's no dice rolling capability, so we just had the GM take care of the dice-rolling behind the scenes. It was fun and
much nicer (not to mention faster) than PBP.

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[Gadrin]

What sorts of games (meaning Traveller scenarios) are you guys interested in ?

If you're interested, we could set up a weekly or bi-weekly chat and get something hammered out.

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[Leitz]

What sorts of games (meaning Traveller scenarios) are you guys interested in ?

If you're interested, we could set up a weekly or bi-weekly chat and get something hammered out.

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Well, I just got a response from Marc about the ordering issue on T5, so that's on the way. Woo-hoo!

Things I'd like in a game would be story, financial progress to help me vicariously live entrepreneurial dreams, teamwork, and space travel. Things I dislike are being forced into situations just becuase "that's the way the module runs", nitty-gritty milleau where everthing is dark and there's no chance to feel you've made the galaxy a better place.

Things I'm ambivilant about but don't mind if other players or the DM wants them are Psionics, "the Force", house rules, mercenary tickets, politics, nobility. I would normally play a Scout or Merchant but would have no problems with a Mercenary or Naval Officer if that was the game setting.

I spent some time digging last night and can't find any of the books, don't recall if I still have them or not. I do have a few old modules. Since T5 is enroute and that's the only rules set I'll have, guess which one I'd like to play. :rofl:

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[Kilgs]

I always thought Skype would be a good platform. I looking into Fantasy Grounds and Grip but decided I would want some interest before I invested the fifty bones for either of them.

 

[Leitz]

yeah, I'm a Luddite though, if I'm not doing my server stuff. It's taken me until now to use an electronic calendar program. I'm not sure my machines can even do VOIP...

Gadrin, forgot to mention some other stuff about the game possibilities. I appreciate the potential game and your willingness to help pull it together. Let me know what sorts of things you'd like from us as players and I'll see what we can come up with. Web pages are no problem, the die roller works though if I understand correctly I may need to adjust it for more or less than 2 dice? I can look in to Skype as well, OpenRPG does actually work from a users view.

There's an unfinished model of the Millineum Falcon in the garage, I may have to go out that together. Certainly would help set the mood.

L

 

[ThunderChilde]

Completely OT, but I was in a IRC channel LOTR RPG for about 16 months. Every Friday night for about 4 hours. If Green was gonna be buisy with RL, we all sent leters back and forth via the Yahoo group we had on what our characters were up to. It ran well, aside from IRC's occasional flakeyness.

The Yahoo group was a very nice method of common file storage, gm handouts and record sorage. It's free too.

 

[warwizard]

Hi Guys I've played in a game online previously and would enjoy getting into one.

I'm interested in doing a colonization /transport campaign in the era (20 years) prior to the "first" interstellar war between the Terrans and the imperials. Initially the characters would be goverment employees from NASA or the ESA or perhaps China. The period is one of sweeping changes to society as the Terrans absorb the full inport of the existance of an interstellar society with 1000's of worlds being run by cave men. Collectively we've decieded to go out and grab as much real estate as we possiably can, with maximum effort on ship building and colony establishment. Later the campaign can move into the incident at Bernard's Star and the resulting war.
Terra TL= 9 at first contact, with steady increases in space technology over the next 20 years to have TL 11 ships in service by the time the shooting starts. Ref materials World builder's handbook, T4 FF&S, Solomani Rim sector map backdated to the time period as well as other materials from the past 32 years of Traveller such as the Imperium game.
Scenarios available:
Trading / spying (overt) missions to imperial worlds.
Transport missions to and from newly established colonies at less than friendly worlds.
Trying to establish a new colony and make a go of it.
Military "Bug Hunt" missions to worlds where the local Fauna are more than the run of the mill deadly.
Testing new military hardware in frontier conditions (away from any possiable observation by imperial scouts).
Clandestine scouting missions to imperial worlds both space and terrestial.
And for the gearheads, all sorts of new military hardware needs to be designed and tested.

Fluff:
"Ten Billion Homo Sapiens out numbered a million to one by cave men! We wiped them out before , we can do it again! People of Earth and the Centauri system arise! This is the moment of our greatest challenge! Shall we become just another subject people, to be opressed and stifiled and eventually lose all sense of ourselves and our way of life, OR ARE WE FREE MEN! The stars await! Will you own them or allow CAVE MEN to lay claim to every star and every planet? Get up and apply to join a colony company today! Enlist in the Space Service! Or organize your own colony company! But DO something, every person is needed to pitch in, we must put forth our every fibre of our beings to meet this challenge!"
Secertary General of the united nations in Ebroadcast to the peoples of Earth and Centauri

 

[Leitz]

The Yahoo group was a very nice method of common file storage, gm handouts and record sorage. It's free too.

I've pottered with Google Docs, and use Chat, Mail, and Calendar a bit. Docs has shown some flakiness but I just toured Google groups and it looks pretty good. I especially like the way we could integrate all the different parts into one place.

Hehe...I can already see a place for putting the game on my Google Calendar. :rofl:

If anyone wants a GMail account for this, PM me with an e-mail address. I have my Gmail stuff pulled to my regular e-mail account so you aren't forced to use two different mailers.

L

 

[CosmicGamer]

What Operating System are you running? IRC is a protocol and there are probably lots of options for you, depending on OS.

L

OS: Win XP

 

[Leitz]

OS: Win XP

Here are some options:

http://www.mibbit.com/

http://b0at.tx0.org/xchat/

L