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admin side The singlemost important rule of any forum is consistent moderation. Don't let someone get away with behavior X because they're your buddy. It's also useful to identify the status of copyright on the board: do you as board owner assert text contributed is: copyright the poster copyright the board (which may not be legal in some places) all ...

Roll20 is another online tabletop - recently out of kickstarter - that operates with Google+ Hangouts. It's got good card support, including recently added hands and more features. The changelog has more details, including: Better support for multiple decks. Switched from the "drag upward" draw motion to just "click" to draw. You can now deal ...

The Tabletop Forge hangout app includes what they call a "table" - this is something you can roll random results from. It includes a default table that doesn't replace items rolled called Card_Deck-Default, which contains a standard 52-card poker deck plus 2 jokers. You can draw publicly from this deck with /table Card_Deck-Default, and draw without ...

www.roll20.net is a powerful tool and not so crazy complex. Yes I tested for the fudge dice and it works great. You get GM notes and everyone else gets to see public info on characters, and they do have hand drawn or drag and drop web search built in for various bits. I'm trying to build something right now, but I am a complete noob to PnP RPG's. This in ...

Considering that the conversion/migration from www.avidgamers.com was to a subdomain of the original domain to ag2.avidgamers.com... it wasn't much of a migration. It's been 5 years... everything went dark in 2007. From the few posts I've read where people were asking about the site and where it went/why it went down, there doesn't appear to be any single ...

A few examples go a long way with Microscope. "Clear on the rules" is actually a little less important, as Microscope rules work well if introduced as you go. (Microscope is a very easy game to demo at conventions.) There's some advice at the back of the book (p59-62) on running beginner's games, and I strongly recommend you follow it online. What will ...

MapTool by RPTools is a Java-based tool that can do all of that, though it's a generic platform, so you'd have to build some of it yourself to get started. But it looks like someone has already created a Fate 3.0 generic framework that could give you a starting point. MapTool has text chat built in, along with player-controlled tokens that have "Properties" ...

Maybe player C likes player A as a DM more than he does with you. Maybe player A's npc has something more interesting to offer than player B or your NPCs. Analyze why player A's NPCs are of some interest to player C's PC and build on it. Talking with the players might help you at being more efficient at this.

One I've played (but never actually engineered myself) is called VASSAL. A guy I know playtests his card games using this program which includes your standard two deck versus and even deckbuilding games. We are in two different countries so it definitely has networking capability. You create a module and set all the card properties (where they go, ...