Contact Information & Discussion of how we'll do this

So - we'll need to be able to keep in contact with each other, so this thread will contain everyone's contact info.

DON'T PROVIDE MORE THAN YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH GIVING. WE'LL MAKE DUE WITH WHAT WE HAVE.

There isn't any set thing that you have to provide, so just provide everything you feel you'll be likely to check or be online with.

Email: Mesmerale@gmail.com

IRC: Blitzed, Nexusnet, and Furnet servers as Mesmerale (or Mes|Rin or Mes|Violet)

IM: AIM & YIM as Violetgem520. MSN as Mesmerale@live.com

Skype: Mesmerale

Phone number: 443-878-8408

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I also want to use this thread to discuss how we'll interact during play. Text-based chat boxes are fine and all, but a game like D&D requires the ability to interrupt people and talk at once, in my opinion. I suggest we use Skype during play, or maybe Ventrilo? (I can host a server).

Here's my info. Assume anything I join (Skype, etc.) will have the username CriticalQuit.

Email: justintpaul@verizon.net

Phone: 410 531 0219, cell 443 766 0946 but I almost never have it with me.


As for using voice stuff, Skype could work, but Ventrilo does too, I used that in WoW, it's pretty good. Voice Chat makes it harder to actually role play though, it's easier to roleplay in writing than to try to do it in speech.

That is a good point, but I personally believe that the advantages of being able to interrupt each other's actions like we would be able to in real life will be stronger than the advantage of the additional suspension of disbelief gained by text-based interaction.

Perhaps we could find a balance of the two? We use text for the in-game decisions and when our characters speak, but we use voice chat for out-of-character talk?

That could work. We'd have to be careful about what we type though.

For example: If a character wants to grab a lever and pull it, we'd have to make sure that we say "So and so REACHES FOR the lever." so as to give anyone else a chance to try and stop that person.

If you just type "Grabs the lever and pulls it", you aren't giving anyone else a chance to act (Not that it would stop them, it's just bad storytelling.)

Right. everything will have to be gated. Combat will have to stream though, attacks can't be halted XD

Absolutely.

Actually.. Skype could be great for this. It has the edit feature for the chat...

But doesn't RPtools map have the text we'd be using?

I don't know - does it? I've never used it before.

David says it does.

Then I guess it does.

Yeah, I figure then we can have skype or ventrilo or whichever in the background (I know Ventrilo runs in the background as I use it for WoW), and type in the actual RPtools interface.

That could work. I'm actually going to star experimenting with Maptools now to see how it works.

Go ahead. I need to finish up my character sheet with the stats. Here's hoping they're good, I have to have good stats because the stat enhancing items for me share slots with other items I might want (the natural attack boosting amulet and the monk's belt)

Hold on - as far as we know, Atreus is the DM, and he hasn't decided anything yet.

Alright.

Email: math1093@aol.com

Skype: (I will get one if I need too)

in order of how often i'm on:

skype: atreus10
email: luckofthepolish@gmail.com
IRC: Atreus (or Atry|something when i'm doing something) on foonetic, freenode, nexusnet, and chatspike
cell (text, only for emergencies because i have pay-as-you-go): 443 528 5585

i also have steam, though people have trouble finding me...

I mainly use Skype and IRC, but Skype would work best for me, I think. My Skype: drakesor554/Drake