Comments on: The Wave’s the Thing: Running a D&D Wave Game

By: Riding the Wave – Roleplaying with Google Wave | Pyres of Vam

Riding the Wave – Roleplaying with Google Wave | Pyres of Vam — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:41:11 +0000

[...] session, but it’s going really well. The topic of running a game on a wave has already been covered in excellent detail here, so I won’t rehash it. What I will do, is give a brief run-down of how our game went using [...]

By: Drakkanis

Drakkanis — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:30:12 +0000

I do not understand how to add Fighty+ to my wave. Please do explain to me as I am a stupid person and I get a “permission denied”. I don’t understand and I ask for help.

By: Sarah Darkmagic

Sarah Darkmagic — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:30:13 +0000

My First Play By Post Experience…

For a few weeks now, I’ve been involved in a great play-by-post game over on Google Wave. Our DM, Michael, is a great guy. He lets my character do lots of interesting and exciting things without letting her get away with too much. He’s also really go…

By: Starting Over… | Moebius Adventures

Starting Over… | Moebius Adventures — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:05:57 +0000

[...] The Wave’s the Thing: Running a D&D Wave Game from At Will (at-will.omnivangelist.net) [...]

By: Google Wave is freaky cool « James Mace

Google Wave is freaky cool « James Mace — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:06:28 +0000

[...] I’ve seen a few blog posts out there about how people manage their waves and their games and Quinn’s post on At-Will looks promising. I say looks because I have yet to try out playing D&D on a [...]

By: gamefiend

gamefiend — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:49:15 +0000

These are excellent ideas that I will try to implement in my own games on the wave. Thanks for the ideas, and thanks for posting!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:58:23 +0000

Oh and ‘Save My Arse’ TPK resist characters. Or SUBs that comes in when the party looks like they have bitten off more than they can chew and are death spiralling into a TPK.

‘I heard the screams and came to help.’

With the ability to just pull in players and characters at short notice it opens up lots of interesting options.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:44:21 +0000

Another thought is – you could just start the campaign with one character (the first.) They wander around doing stuff, not combat unless you are prepared for that, and others get introduced more naturally rather than the ‘You’ve known each other since childhood’ etc.

The new players get introduced as they come and meet properly rather than artificially (and boringly.) You could even have a swap around. When a character dies, they are out, and then comes in another player.

If it is 4E you would be slightly constrained by the Role system of Defender, Leader, Striker, Controller.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:27:20 +0000

I just had a little thought – couldn’t you have people come in on a relatively short term basis to play NPCs. Lets face it. Every DM has about 3 characters in them. You could have a world worth of varied ‘actors’ at your fingertips.

In fact a person could have an NPC character(s) all drawn up and be sitting waiting for a ‘job.’ You can look for the type of NPC you are looking for (they have a sort of CV) and you can invite them on a temp basis.

‘We go into the tavern and buy a drink.’
DM – looks for a tavern owner, someone grumpy.
Insert NPC.

Just a thought.

By: shod on tuesdays

shod on tuesdays — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:07:33 +0000

Argh, this sounds amazing! I want to start up something like this right now! Perhaps one of my Facebook friends could invite me…