Khel
October 20th, 2006, 18:32
Hi - I'm looking at FG as a way to re-connect with my gaming group, as I now live far away and really want to continute playing with them. The rest of the group all gets together IRL to play, and I'd likely be the only one joining remotely.
My GM and I have both messed with the demo, both think it looks awesome, and he thinks that FG could add some cool visual flash to the game for everyone playing on his end, and he's interested in trying it out. What I'm wondering about is the mechanics of this set-up. If we've got me playing online, and the rest of the group playing in one room on the other side of the country, how would this work in FG?
We'd plan to use a voice chat system (probably skype, but recommendations are welcome) to address the fact that not everyone has a keyboard in front of them. But how to do dice rolling? How to handle entering info on character sheets? Has anyone tried this mixed approach before? Are there other snags I'm not anticipating because I don't know FG enough?
Only thought I've had so far is to have maybe another player logged on on the group's end, to help with some of this scribe duty - but I know some of the players will want to roll their own dice. Maybe a wireless mouse they hand around?
Anyone care to end my rampant speculation with some concrete answers?
My GM and I have both messed with the demo, both think it looks awesome, and he thinks that FG could add some cool visual flash to the game for everyone playing on his end, and he's interested in trying it out. What I'm wondering about is the mechanics of this set-up. If we've got me playing online, and the rest of the group playing in one room on the other side of the country, how would this work in FG?
We'd plan to use a voice chat system (probably skype, but recommendations are welcome) to address the fact that not everyone has a keyboard in front of them. But how to do dice rolling? How to handle entering info on character sheets? Has anyone tried this mixed approach before? Are there other snags I'm not anticipating because I don't know FG enough?
Only thought I've had so far is to have maybe another player logged on on the group's end, to help with some of this scribe duty - but I know some of the players will want to roll their own dice. Maybe a wireless mouse they hand around?
Anyone care to end my rampant speculation with some concrete answers?