I've actually gotten in a few roleplays via Skype, because I wasn't able to make it over to my friend's house. It was interesting, because I lacked tactile D&D dice, so I wound using a number generator. As for me, I like Advanced D&D, and hope to be a Dungeon Master some day.

Haramir, I was more interested in simply starting a discussion about the subject though if a group had come together I wouldn't have objected. Making up your own rules is great if you're able to do it, both with the ability of the GM to handle it and the ability of the group to respect it without anyone disagreements. There are enough rules disputes with ready made rules systems so I'm impressed that a group can make a homebrewed rules system work.

King gamer, tactile D&D dice? I know I saw some braille poly dice on the 3D printing site Shapeways a while ago but it was something like £200 for a full set, mostly because of the costs charged by Shapeways themselves I suspect. I'd be interested to hear anything you have to say about them. Unless of course I've completely misunderstood and what you mean is there was no one there to read the printed dice so you'd have needed either a computer dice roller or tactile dice to play.

I've found the iOS app mach dice, that's mach with a H as in the speed measurement, works reasonably well when I've tested it you just have to tweak the settings and move away from the "one roll engine" which only seems to work with D6 anyway. You can enter dice in normal dice notation but note that the keys work as buttons which need either to be double tapped or split tapped, you can't do the hold and lift like with a normal iOS keyboard. I've experimented with GMA Dice but I found its randomness was a bit lacking, it always seemed to give me rolls on the low end, though I was using it for the aborted forum game of Shadowrun which involved rolling many D6 at once so you might have more luck using it with just one or two dice at a time.

Oh there's plenty of dice rollers flying around one way or another so unless someone else has a specific need for a python dice roller I probably wouldn't go to the trouble, though I very much appreciate the offer.

It's like any kind of social activity, in person is great but sometimes the people you want to hang around with or the topics you want to discuss aren't available in person or at least not in the quantities you'd like. That's kinda the point of this forum, how many people do you know who you speak with in person on any kind of regular basis who play audio games? Similarly you can ask, how many people do you know in person who role play?

I think everyone on here would like a café down the street full of audio gamers to chat with, real life doesn't always oblige. That's where the internet comes in.

Hey,
I have a couple options:
1. I can create just a single file .pyo that you can run with python 2.7.
2. I can make a .exe of the same file
Both the above would be console based.
3. I can make it in pygame and make it much more complex looking, so you would not be able to read it without knowing pygame.
I'd of coarse share the .py files along with the .exe.
If you would like to read some code though,
check out my little console game

Would you like a gui interface or console interface? something like Swamp or a bgt game uses a console interface for moving through menus, something like my game above uses a console interface.
thanks,

I'd like the .pyo file, since I could blug in buffs and the like, directly in to the file.

I loved role playing on skype. When I could get a big enough party or adventure group to do so.
Did everything from Shadow run like clones, to dragon lance. To a few military styled games a few of my friends tried to develop. Loved it. And miss it greatly. God help me I'm such a geek. I've even played a modified version of cricket.
G.M.A's dice roller game, program, thingy. It helped out a lot.
Later.
NEO

OK, Sorry for taking so long,
here is the basic dice roler.
It has profile support, saves on close and shouldn't crash. It runs on any system with python 2.7 installed and the .exe file runs on windows
please let me know your comments!

I love roleplaying over Skype. To be more accurate, me and my regular online RP group use Teamspeak now since the interface is way more accessible with Jaws, as long as someone you know is hosting a server, of course.

I've played all kinds of games over Skype including Pathfinder (an alternative to Dungeons and Dragons), Shadowrun, World of Darkness games such as Mage, Call of Cthulhu, Iron Kingdoms, 316: Adventure Amongst the Stars and Apocalypse World. Oh god, I'm such a geek and I so love roleplaying!

I've even played Skype RP games where I've set up a webcam for sighted players to see a battle mat for prescriptive games where you use figures such as Pathfinder or the newer versions of D&D.

I use GMA Dice and it meets my needs fine, apart from the fact that you can't roll more than 10 dice at a time (especially annoying for Shadowrun and World of Darkness.

In general, as long as you trust your group not to cheat, Skype roleplaying is a wonderful way of keeping in touch with your friends and your favourite hobbies when people move away. My current group has someone in Seattle in the US, Swansea in Wales and Norwich in England.

I recommend looking for forums for your favourite games. Get to know people on there and there's bound to be a call for members of a Skype group sooner or later. As long as you've come over as a nice enough guy, you're sure to be considered.