Table Top Gaming

[Sano]

Does anyone know a site that you can play table top games such as D&D or VtM? Where it has like a dice rolling program and character builder helper and other stuff needed for table top games?

[fastbilly1]

For Boardgames, Wargames, and some card games use Vassal
http://www.vassalengine.org/

For Tabletop RPGs use Roll20
http://roll20.net/

Though most of my friends who do it, just use skype with multiple cameras.

[Sano]

Sweet, thanks man

[MulishaSoldier929]

I miss D&D. Only played a handful of games, but I had a blast every time. Nothing like staying up til 4 in the morning full of doritos and hopped up on mountain dew .


Relevant:

[fastbilly1]

I love playing RPGs, they are improv and strategy in the same mix. But the game is defined by who is running it and who is in it. Sadly my wife and I do not have a good group to play with locally and many of my friends who do play are in other campaigns so they do not want to start one up digitally. So recently we have tried converting our RPG gaming into something more like The Fantasy Trip and blowing through it in a night or weekend. TFT is the name for a series of microgames released in the late 70s. The first was Melee which was released around the same time as Ogre. The rules work out alright still today, but we found a group of fans who made a spinoff series and their company publishes modules fairly often:
http://www.darkcitygames.com/
We have only played the free ones but enjoy it. It is more combat oriented than your usual RPG, but that is ok. We enjoy it thoroughly and it makes use of my large mini collection and Heroscape Terrain. They are kinda like Choose your Own Adventure books made into small RPG campaigns.

The Fantasy Trip/Melee rules:
http://bluwiki.com/go/Tft-melee#Fantasy_fighters

Nothing replaces a true RPG game, but this works out for us for now. That said, you all need to watch the three gamers movies. The first two are on youtube and are about RPGs, the third is about CCGs:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeadGentlemen
They are classic.

[Sano]

I love playing RPGs, they are improv and strategy in the same mix. But the game is defined by who is running it and who is in it. Sadly my wife and I do not have a good group to play with locally and many of my friends who do play are in other campaigns so they do not want to start one up digitally. So recently we have tried converting our RPG gaming into something more like The Fantasy Trip and blowing through it in a night or weekend. TFT is the name for a series of microgames released in the late 70s. The first was Melee which was released around the same time as Ogre. The rules work out alright still today, but we found a group of fans who made a spinoff series and their company publishes modules fairly often:
http://www.darkcitygames.com/
We have only played the free ones but enjoy it. It is more combat oriented than your usual RPG, but that is ok. We enjoy it thoroughly and it makes use of my large mini collection and Heroscape Terrain. They are kinda like Choose your Own Adventure books made into small RPG campaigns.

The Fantasy Trip/Melee rules:
http://bluwiki.com/go/Tft-melee#Fantasy_fighters

Nothing replaces a true RPG game, but this works out for us for now. That said, you all need to watch the three gamers movies. The first two are on youtube and are about RPGs, the third is about CCGs:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeadGentlemen
They are classic.

Awesome, I will have to check it out ^_^

[marurun]

It's been a while since I've had a group to game with. It doesn't help that I've been unimpressed with how many folks approach D&D 3.x (too rule-bound, might as well be playing a computer game with some table talk and snacks).

Anyone here tried any of the FLAILSNAILS Google+ game sessions?

Maybe we should get a Racketboy game going at one of the virtual tabletop sites, or just using a G+ hangout.