Does anybody here play D&D?

[pakman]

I wouldn't feel comfortable DM'ing without knowing the system fully yet. That would be like riding a bike blindfolded! Here's what I gather so far;

SYSTEM: AD&D 2nd Edition (with a mix of house rules/net books)
MEDIUM: AIM, ICQ, MSN IM, (Trillian for all these plus more); I prefer MSN IM personally
TIME: For me, would have to be after 8:00-PM (UTC/GMT -8 hours : Pacific Daylight Time)

I would also like to use dice rollers that everyone can see. The DM can still always roll his own "secret" rolls. This is just my opinion however, and I feel that the DM should get to pick the medium and rather he/she would like to use dice or not.

I am not familiar with the 2nd Ed. ruleset as I only started to RP with 3rd Ed. Maybe I'll go look for a used book on Amazon, it should be pretty cheap (hopefully).

The time that owuld work for me would also be after 8:00PM PST because that is after 5:00 EST which is where I will be. Tuesday and Thursday nights would be better because I have no classes on those days as of right now on my schedule. This gives me time to work on homework during the day. However, projects are inevitably going to come up and I can already say that I might miss a few sessions if this gets off the ground.

As for clients I ama comfortable with pretty much anything. Maybe even IRC would work. Maybe even in the LL IRC room (with permission, of course)?