Well, they should do their own dice rolls for rolling up their character.

You guys are making this much too complicated. Go into your basement and find your d20. Roll the die, take a picture of it with your Polaroid and fax it to the DM. We have technology now, let's use it.

Draug: well that's fine, so long as it's under the DM supervision.

The first thing I learned during my brief stint as a DM is that rolls made away from my own eyes were never to be trusted.

Moot point, anyhow, as the newest character creation is not dice-based (I'm still not sure how I feel about that).

Hell, this sounds kinda fun. I want to try!

And suddenly every one will have perfect rolls with pictures to "prove" it. Gotta be done with video of the roll.

If it ain't die based, I don't wanna play. But we can use the site I listed as it send the email to everyone you want it to and the DM can then verify the legitimacy of the rolls.

@YJ - I love your devious mind....

What would be the requirement on book ownership -- i.e. Player's Manual, what addition, etc. It's been...er...20+ years since I played old school D&D....i.e. older addition, but I think I know where a couple manuals are.

Ebay and gameboardgeek are your friends...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CJ7UUEI/ref=sr_1_1_acs_b_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387479034&sr=1-1-acs

Or if we want to go older...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dungeons+and+dragons&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Adungeons+and+dragons

There is a shitload of stuff here...

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3.5e_Open_Game_Content

After playing neverwinter nights and such, I'm actually a fan of the newest edition rules. The feats are awesome and the character customization is nearly limitless (no more, "oh, you have to be an ELF to multiclass.")

So who wants to DM and how many players should we allow?

We used to play the Middle Earth Role Playing system after we ditched D&D (back in 1985ish...) MERP also allowed better customization - anyone could use magic, for example, but learning it cost more depending o your "base" class, and then you couldn't use it (as well) with certain armor, etc, but a wizard could strap on the chain mail if needed to get out of some place without an arrow in the back if the situation was dire and they were out of mana.

Ahhhh...those were the days...

I could DM, I think, but I don't have ANY manuals or anything like that.

I do know that I'm good at making it into a story rather than a "roll x - HIT" type thing. To me the RP is more what it's about than min/maxing your character.

Wow, Draug, looks like most of the character creation and basic rules stuff is freeware now. I could really do it.

I do think that playing on the forum itself could be a bit cumbersome (f'ing refresh button).

Some kind of live chat (better yet with graphics that I could update a map in real time) would be optimal.

My thought was the forum for the ability to not have to be "live", but I could set up a mail distribution address for a game and we could do it email even.

Yeah I thought the idea was to use the forum to play a non live game. Like 3 times a day or something.

If we wanted to do live, we could Skype that.

3x a day? That would take a very, very long time to get anywhere. Far better to do it live, allocate a 2 hour block every week or something.

But doing that would be difficult from a global player perspective.

hmm... fuck anybody who isn't American? We pretty much go that route with every other decision.

So what two hour block? Saturday 4-6 Eastern (1-3 Pacific)?

3x a day? It's would take three months to get past meeting in the bar, starting a fight, and finding out there is a haunted <x> down the road that needs clearing out...lol

Saturday (this Saturday) doesn't work for me :(

"fuck anybody who isn't American?"

I wonder why many people tend to not like Americans.

Steephie, watch your step or I'll run your ass out of the kingdom <sharpening my sword...>

Well, if it wasn't live, I figured it would be kind of like D&D Lite.

We could have discussion via email and then a final email to the DM that says "my player does thus" and set a deadline for it of say 1AM Eastern (10PM Pacific) every day when the DM does her thing and send us a RP style email describing in excruciating detail how we were hacked to bits.