IRC channel dedicated to tros?

[Lance D. Allen]

Ingenious,

IRC has a die-rolling utility, so webcameras are not needed.

But, if I had my druthers (a slang term I picked up somewhere, basically meaning preference.. Gold star to whoever can figure out the origin of the word) I'd run it on OpenRPG. OpenRPG has several neat features that IRC does not that make table-top gaming so much easier.

One thing that IRC has that would be nice for OpenRPG is multiple channels, so that you can have an OOC channel and an IC channel. However, prior to joining Indie-Netgaming, all of my online gaming was done in one room, so while this can certainly be slightly chaotic, it CAN be done, and easily enough.

For anyone interested in checking out OpenRPG, it can be downloaded at, oddly enough, //www.openrpg.com

As for my popping in and out, I'll have to chalk it up to time constraints as well. I work nights and go to class during the day, so my time is severely limited. That is going to change soon, so if someone is up for trying to run a TRoS game online, I'd definitely be game to play, as well as helping you set up whatever is necessary to get the game going.

[Lxndr]

(It comes from "would rather" -> "'d rather" -> "druther", and has been around for at least a century.  Good word.)

[Brian Leybourne]

Damnit Alex, you beat me to it :-)

Brian.

[Lxndr]

If I had my druthers, people would use it more often.  It's really not an obscure piece of slang, though, so I'm not sure why Lance thought he needed to explain it.

Anyway, my reason for popping in and out of the #tros forum yesterday afternoon (which I did) was that I just wanted to see if there were any people in there, but did NOT have the time or inclination to stay and chat.

[Lance D. Allen]

Considering that many users of this forum do not speak English as their first language...

Methinks it becomes much more obscure when you take that into account.

[Ingenious]

IMO The language barrier is actually not as obscure as you might assume, given the fact that there are thousands of pages of online translation tools. And these work especially well considering the language is being typed and not spoken.

-Ingenious

[Lance D. Allen]

Show me an online translation tool that will properly translate "druthers" and I'll be duly impressed. Most of those that I've come across are only barely passable at translating basic sentence syntax, and include only the most common slang.

Anyhow.. This isn't the point of this thread, and I apologize for sidetracking it.