Does anybody here play D&D?

[Wyrm]

Was it fun? I've heard of those before, but never got into them. I think I tried a PBM (or email rather) version and found it entirely boring. I believe the live chat ones feature die rollers and everything, correct? I wouldn't mind giving it a whirl, although nothing can replace ye old pen-and-paper, IMO.

To add a bit to what Xui said: they can be loads of fun. We used an AIM chatroom to play the game, which worked out well because of the in-chat dice roller, and the DM would change his text color to indicate different speakers and had a black text background color for official DM announcements. Also, to differentiate actions, character speech, and out-of-character speech, we all used a simple method of ooc speech going in parenthases, in character speech going in quotes, and actions (stuff like saying where you're going, etc.) with no added punctuation, or using an asterice for an emote-type action. I tried this on a message board once and it just failed miserably, you really need to have real-time communication with people for it to go anywhere.

Our DM at the time was really laid back in what he allowed characters to have with the only real restrictions going to resurrection spells and stuff like that. We used prestige classes, feats, etc. from this place, although there were a lot more optional additions before 3.5 came out; some people were even using prestige classes of their own making/design. Thanks to him I was able to find out that while a half-dragon bard may be fun to play, it's not really all that useful (although it was pretty fun having a strength score of 26).

I still have our old logs and can post 1 or 2 if you want to see what the typical session is like.

Sometimes I make secret rolls for the characters just as I would in a real life game

Heh, I remember that every time the DM would roll a 100 sided die in chat without explaining it we'd all get paranoid and try to figure out who'd be getting smacked with something next.

The main reason for sticking with older editions of ADnD is my familiarity of the old system as well as the 20 or so years of customized background material that I refuse to waste my time converting to a system that fails to impress me.

The big thing that I like about 3e (and now 3.5e) is the d20 system, which makes it so much easier for people to learn the rules and get going, without dragging down the people who are already veterans of D&D.

I allow my players to use real dice and post their rolls in channel.

I always found it fun to see what other people were rolling. Not necessary, but fun, and it made it easier to laugh at people who were having bad nights with rolls.

Anyways... since there are already 4 of us showing interest in this, should we start moving forward with it? All we really need to decide on would be the meeting time, communication software to be used, and who the DM will be, with DM being the biggie. I've never DMed before but I'm willing to try just about anything (within reason); right now, the off-the-top-of-my-head time where I don't have anything to do and don't foresee myself planning anything for is Saturday around 8 or 9 PM EST; my preferred chat method is AIM since that's what I'm already familiar with, but if there's a command/bot for IRC that will do dice rolling, that's easily doable.