{"id":185,"date":"2009-10-09T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-10-09T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:47:44","slug":"online-roleplaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Online Roleplaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\/help\/wave\/about.html\">Google Wave<\/a> has potential to be an awesome platform for online roleplaying. \u00c2\u00a0You heard it here first.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to spend too much time discussing it, because plenty of other people already have, but google wave is what email should be. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s somewhere between mail, chat, and document. \u00c2\u00a0And it can embed all sorts of funky widgets. \u00c2\u00a0Why am I talking about it? \u00c2\u00a0Because it just might be perfect for online RPGs. \u00c2\u00a0People use forums, but they&#8217;re kludgey. \u00c2\u00a0IRC works well enough for text and dice, but only for synchronous games. \u00c2\u00a0Wave on the other hand is simple enough that it should get in the way of the game and advanced enough that you can (probably) incorporate dice rolling. \u00c2\u00a0I won&#8217;t be surprised if you can (eventually) embed a map of some sort to replace MapTool.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t want to babble on about it for much longer. \u00c2\u00a0Just read up on Google Wave and keep an eye out for how it could apply to gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Wave has potential to be an awesome platform for online roleplaying. \u00c2\u00a0You heard it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}