Role playing over Skype
Some of you may be aware of the excellent podcast Monkeys Took my Jetpack made by Eric otherwise known for his appearances on the Maccessibility podcast. If you're at all interested in role playing, or just plain geeky story telling I strongly urge you to check out the previous highly humorous Captive Souls series of podcasts and the current excellent series where they play the Dresden Files RPG, based on the urban fantasy novels from Jim Butcher. You won't be disappointed.
Which gets me to the topic at hand here: Have you ever tried role playing via Skype? Have you ever been curious? I haven't had the privelige myself though I did try a forum based effort once, which fell apart both because I wasn't able to get online to check as regularly as I probably should and because other players fell out of the group as we went on.
Also up for discussion, what kind of role plays ettings do you like? What rules systems do y ou like? I've read a fair few for fun and I have to admit I feel D&D 4E was too prescriptive by far, trying to imitate a turn based computer RPG too much. At the same time the rules light style of the games by Spectrum Games such as Cartoon Action Hour seem fun and fast but also don't give me much feel for the detail of the situation. I think World of Darkness probably got it about right for my tastes, though since I've always had an interest in Warhammer 40,000 the RPGs based on that setting have a natural appeal to me.
Oh and my 4 year old guide dog Kirk, who I got just about the time I retired as moderator, is my unofficial gaming mascot so anywhere I can work him in is always fun.
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