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Obsidian Portal as a virtual tabletop
I am new to Obsidian Portal, so please forgive me if I ask a foolish question. Can Obsidian Portal be used as a virtual tabletop (vtt)? I set up a campaign, but can't see where the vtt is located. Many thanks for your help.
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Personally I don't use OP _during_ game play because my computer isn't in my gaming room, however the wiki tools make OP *especially* useful during the world building stage of any campaign in a custom setting.
Also its a great site just for reading about other groups' adventures- as well as sharing yours- and the forums are especially nice for tips and ideas. There is a great community here.
Welcome to the Portal and I hope it can be useful to you in some way. (A great way to see its capabilities is to check out other campaigns and see what others have done. Go to the "campaigns tab":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns when not in the forums to do this.)
I dont see why you couldnt use something like skype or ventrillo or something... organize a campaign using obsidian portal, and then mix in a combination of play by post with some 'pseudo live' gaming via skype/ ventrillo etc -- something along the lines of weekly forum gaming with monthly or bimonthly 'live' sessions ? Has it been done here before?
iTabletop is now free to use, with all features enabled. I've been using it for a while, and it's quite good. You can upload large files to your players via the site as well. Now that its free I think it makes a great option, in my opinion better than OpenRPG which is beginning to show its age.
"Our campaign":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier is face-to-face right now, but one of the players is moving back to Europe when he finishes his post-doc this summer, so we're planning to transition to Skype after that.
I run the wiki on my laptop during the game, and I update the adventurers' pages, reveal new npcs, and so on in actual play, so the players can log on as well and we can all look at the same maps, character portraits, and so on as we play. We don't use a 'battlegrid' or anything, so all we need is a voice connection, really.
Mike aka Black Vulmea
"_Le Ballet de l'Acier_":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier - swashbuckling adventures in the age of the Three Musketeers and Captain Alatriste