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- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT NET-RPG
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- Table of contents:
- 0) Who wrote NetRPG?
- 1) What is NetRPG?
- 2) What machines does NetRPG run on?
- 3) Does it cost anything?
- 4) What do you really do with it?
- 5) How do I find someone to play games with?
- 6) Where do I get a copy of NetRPG?
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- 0) Who wrote NetRPG?
- NetRPG was written by me, Erich G Bratton (erich@kagi.com), in order
- to keep playing games once everyone I gamed with in college moved
- on.
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- 1) What is NetRPG?
- NetRPG is an internet server which lets a group of friends role-play
- over the net. NetRPG is especially useful for playing D&D (copyright
- by TSR). NetRPG allows players to talk with one another using a
- mud-like interface, ready weapons, set an armor class, have hit
- points, store online character sheets, calculate and run combats
- using initiative rolls, resolve attacks and distribute damage between
- players and monsters, store and retrieve ASCII maps to facilitate
- showing exactly where the action is occuring, roll dice either in the
- open or privately shown to only the player and DM, and allows the
- DM to fudge attack rolls when a plot line necessitates a critical hit
- or miss or whatever.
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- All of these features combine in NetRPG to make live internet
- role-playing not only possible, but very enjoyable!
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- 2) What machines does NetRPG run on?
- The NetRPG server runs on any Macintosh which has MacTCP. Once the
- server is running, the players can connect to the server using their
- favorite MUD client from any type of machine. (ie, they could run
- tinyfugue on a unix box, or Muddweller on a mac, or a telnet program
- on a PC)
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- So, as long as you have one person who has a mac someplace, you can
- play using NetRPG. You don't even have to be sitting at the Mac to
- play, you can just leave NetRPG running on a mac in an office
- someplace.
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- 3) Does it cost anything?
- NetRPG is free. All I ask is that you send me email telling me what
- you're doing with it, and whether or not you like it.
- (erich@kagi.com)
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- 4) What do you really do with it?
- Well, once you have played for a while and start getting into more
- complex adventures, you can add on Maven or other audio-conferencing
- tools (assuming everyone has a fast connection) or an electronic
- whiteboarding program such as "wb" for XWindows or NCSA's Collage.
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- 5) How do I find someone to play games with?
- The difficulty with NetRPG is that you never see/hear the other
- people. For this reason, it seems to help to know the people you are
- playing with. However, if you don't have anyone who'd like to play,
- I think that advertising on rec.games.frp.dnd for a group to play
- on a regular basis (once a week works for my group) should turn up
- more than a few responses.
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- 6) Where do I get a copy of NetRPG?
- NetRPG is available on the info-mac and umich archives. Either pick
- your favorite archive and go into the comm/tcp directory, or use
- the following URL:
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- ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/
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- Look for net-rpg-#.hqx, where # is the version number. If you don't
- understand how FTP works, or how to unpack a file, please try to
- have someone around you help you out. If not, email me and I'll
- help you.
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