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I ran D&D games on IRC for several years. The biggest challenges were: Agreeing on a game time is tricky. When you've got international players, this is a major factor. We used a Google Calendar to post availability, and picked times when five or more were available. Communication is more cumbersome online. It may not seem like it, but response time is ...

The best experience of playing over the internet is done through the combination of a voice chat program and a virtual tabletop. A virtual tabletop program is a specialized whiteboard software that allows the sharing of images, text chatting, and dice rolling. Typically they allows smaller images, known as tokens, to be placed on a shared image, and many ...

I've played in numerous text-based games and the problems I encountered in those inspired me to work on my own text based gaming medium. While this answer will sum up problems I've encountered as Jonathan already mentioned some, it's also an ad for my free, non-profit text based roleplaying platform. But first, issues I've encountered: (IRC related) ...

I've tried to run a campaign via IRC, but it didn't work well. Players can be easily distracted and you don't even know until you notice they are lagging. They are also more prone not to take it seriously, not showing up at all. Finally, they can experience technical difficulties. I wouldn't ever consider it again unless I've really got no other option. ...

There's a fairly stable, medium-sized IRC network called Darkmyst that caters to roleplaying. I'm assuming there are others, but that's one I've been with for about eleven years now, and they've certainly got a lot of interesting games going on, as well as a service tailored specifically to help find games called RPGServ, a service providing basic dicerolls ...

Whoo, boy. I need to give a disclaimer first off: this is definitely self-advertising, although I swear I'm just trying to be helpful. :) I love IRC roleplaying, specifically because it (with the right group) allows you to create much more vibrant, detailed stories than you can in-person. You can write at your own pace, and the game is only as immediate ...

We much preferred VSee to other chat programs and play-by-post or -e-mail gaming. As far as dice goes, you can't go wrong with dicelog. The most difficult challenges was keeping people focused, from a DM perspective. Being at the same table contributes a lot. I combated this by preparing many, many speeches and such in advance, as well as working toward ...

IRC is great for a lot of kinds of RP, but you need to keep in mind the kinds of things it's not good for. Here is a quick list of the pros and cons that spring to mind based on my experience: IRC is slow This is great to get people to give you really detailed actions. Here's a randomly-chosen line from a IRC-like game: His expression returns to its ...

I like using video conference calls with Skype, distributing campaign materials offline (i.e., outside the gaming session) for people to print out, with keyword-based character sheets that everyone can see and a list of player secrets that only the player and narrator knows, and using the lightweight paper-scissors-rock as a conflict resolution mechanism, ...

We had our first session last night and it was a tremendous success. We used Skype for both in-character text chat and out-of-character rules and clarifying discussion. I really like this because the result is a relatively clean transcript of the actual in-character bits and speedier resolution of the mechanical elements of game play. Best of all, minutes ...

Forums tend to favor play-by-post games on that forum; you may have better luck with IRC channels. There are many out there, but the only one I'm personally familiar with is #giantitp. They're not very big on Pathfinder, though, they prefer 3.5 standard.

Most RPG Forums have sections for finding people for play-by-post, skype or in person games. Some links that may help (these are sites I have used before, although not for online games): Giant in the Playground Knights 'n' Knaves Role-Player.net However, I would suggest looking for Pathfinder-specific forums or sites if you can (I can't personally ...

You have to have a rules of order so that people aren't typing over each other and causing there to be multiple conversations going on at the same time in a shared chatbox. It can be an issue, but having some way for people to buzz in (such as a smiley emoticon as the signal they want to talk) can help keep order. As for services, let me recommend ...

I played in an IRC game back in college. I don't remember how long the sessions lasted, but the game fizzled after a month or two. Pros The GM was able to copy and paste description. I think his doing this was what kept the game going at a good pace. IRC dice rolling was easy. /roll 2d10. Trivial. Infinite handles. What I mean by this was that if ...

You can use Google Hangout to run an RPG which makes video-conferencing easy and there are a few applications out to show text/boards/or other visual elements such as character sheets. You also asked about PBP boards. I've searched around for a couple of years and the best one I could find is DnD Online Games. They have a great community of avid, serious, ...

I just came across a blog entry here that asked this question, and it got a couple good answers. Seems there are 2 or 3 decent IRC channels that might work for playing games.