If we did, we wouldn't have made Andrew leave sessions in frustration so many times.

So it's either MSPAINT (ugh) or wait for the new, fancy, WOTC-made thing...
paint it is!
EDIT:
Well lookie lookie.
I found something nice; take a look.
http://www.rpgobjects.com/index.php?c=orpg&m=getorpg

The WOTC client is P2P isn't it?

Yeah.
You shell out $55 for the books, the least they could do is make it a one-time purchase... :/
ORPG makes an ok substitute, though; I don't need 3D.

We tried that once, couldn't get it to work. I have used OpenRPG twice while playing with IRL friends who were away at college and it does solve many problems posed on IRC such as having a IC and OOC chatroom and of course the more obvious one, visual representation. Takes a little fiddling with to make it work though.

Why did we not use it then?

Did you figure out a way to load the damned fog of war?

Well I was having an autistic fit at the time because for some reason I didn't realize we could just use the pre-existing character sheets instead of having to use PCGen. Also next game is in awhile. I am completely redoing the world and stuffing it full of fluff. You will have a map etc etc. Well... more like maps...

Also iirc there is a fog of war paintbrush and you just paint over stuff you dont want PCs to see

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/vtt.html




"I didn't realize we could just use the pre-existing character sheets instead of having to use PCGen." What?

Last time we tried D&DRL, we used a program called PCGen to make our character sheets. It apparently lagged horrendously for a few people and complicated for a few others. PCGen is meant to work hand in hand with OpenRPG. To do this though, took a lot of fiddling around with and a long enough to be annoying process. The horrors I faced have led me to directly connect OpenRPG with PCGen. Therefore, when I was planning this thing out, I didn't realize we could have things be so much simpler by using the character sheets we made at that one site there is a link to in #D&D. Make sense?

None.

PCGen generates charsheets, but is buggy as ♥♥♥♥. He had it in his mind that you HAD to use PCGen character sheets to use OpenRPG, but he didn't want to use PCGen, so he didn't use either.

But... you don't need to use anything with Orpg... you just move tokens around and draw on the grid.

Yeah but that's what he thought for whatever reason.

heres a charector generator i use often and its yet to have failed amongst my party so ill post it up.


http://www.pathguy.com/cg35.htm

try it out(has it set to follow the dnd book exactly though which can make it pretty awkward if your not to sure about the rules)