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I'm designing a RP forum but when the characters have to talk to each other the game turns as slow as a crippled turtle with Alzheimer's.

Do you know of any online chat or chat-like resource I can use for a closed game? I am looking for a text-based chat that would allow for off-topic and on-topic talking between players to assist in speeding up our games on the forum.

EDIT: I would add: That players may not know who is the player beneath the char. A chat where you enter with an alias. So that chars only know themselves as chars. Oh and text based because I would like to copy it and paste on a web.

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Use a Skype conference call, chat and type with your players. – David Allan Finch Jul 1 '11 at 13:27
Team speak is great too. – Chad Jul 1 '11 at 14:39
Make a good old fashioned IRC room for your game, players can use the nick command to change their name to their characters. They can even sign into the same room more than once so you could have room for character names & players alike. Best part is you can just dump it all to a txt file or copy/paste to the web later. – DreadGazebo Dec 30 '11 at 15:15

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An IRC server would be the easiest answer. Pick a server, create a room, and have everyone connect to it with their character name as their /nick. All you need to do is denote some form of "This is how to talk OOC" (such as simply putting 'OOC' before each line), and you're good to go. You can even look into dice-rolling bots and/or a server which already has one, if you want.

I can't make any recommendations for servers off the top of my head, but I know they exist. It's even possible to host your own server if you want.

Here are some resources that may be helpful:

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mibbit.com is a free, web-based IRC client. Go to mibbit.com, select one of the servers, and create a room. The otherworlders.net server is very RPG-friendly. – Brent Newhall Dec 29 '11 at 13:46
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Not sure if this is relevant but...

If you're doing DnD4e or another tactical game, it's essential to have a gameboard/tabletop in front of your players. You could use something like http://onlinetabletop.appspot.com/ or http://beta.ditzie.com/dnd but I've seen people have good success with just a Google Docs spreadsheet that everyone is viewing.

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Not all my players are Googleish like you and me. And hotmail guys seemed to have trouble with this. Nice idea though! – apacay Jul 18 '11 at 13:49

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