Comments on The Dice of Life: Gaming with Google Groups

I've seen Obsidian Portal, and I think it's a grea...

2009-07-02T10:34:53.345-04:00

I've seen Obsidian Portal, and I think it's a great service, and rather nice to have a service specifically tailored to RPGs.

I tried it for my own campaign back in 2007, but eventually fell back to Google's services. I see OP has made improvements since. Still, I found Google's services handled most of what I needed. Once Google Sites became publicly available, I was convinced Google was the way to go because of how modular and customizable it is. Plus iGoogle and Google sites both can pull together all of the pieces across various services. (We'll see that later in this series.)

I love the Map feature by the way. I just found two groups looking for players in my own town, and I mean blocks away. Very cool feature. (Note: Powered by Google. Go Go Google!)

I also noticed your recent announcement about The Lonely Gamer Network. That's a fantastic resource for gamers limited on time to find something local. I might ask you for an interview about that to post as a feature on The Dice of Life.

Now if you guys created iGoogle Gadgets, included IM, online storage, and custom modular components rather than predefined ones, you'd definitely boost your feature set.

You should check out http://www.obsidianportal.com...

2009-07-02T10:01:47.120-04:00

You should check out http://www.obsidianportal.com We designed it from the ground up as a way to manage a tabletop RPG campaign. You get a blog & wiki, tools for tracking NPCs, and lots of other little things. Plus, the whole site is filled with other campaigns that you can browse for inspiration.

We may not have all the bells & whistles of Google Groups, but we do specialize in RPGs, and it definitely shows once you start using the system.

Awesome! I just created a group for us, to help ma...

2009-06-26T23:00:57.196-04:00

Awesome! I just created a group for us, to help manage our gaming times, which seems to be a headache at the moment.
Can't wait for the google calendar write-up!