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Originally posted by FudD:
<STRONG>In reply to Sailor...
I have had experience with both AIM and mIRC and I can understand how AIM is easier to use, especially concerning dice rolling. Yet I own 3 irc rooms, 1 is pub and 2 are private. The private rooms are passworded and there are no unwanted guest, period. Comands are fast and simple once u learn them, !kb ]SoD[FudD <---bans and kicks, that easy and instantly. Scripts that allow me to show off my winamps or lets peeps know what TFC server I'm playing on with ip, ping and other info, these are just a few of the things that can be done. IRC is a bit complicated but once you learn it the experience is way more enjoyable. Additionally, owner/coowner/masters are the only ones who would really need to know how to run the room for the average person they just gotta join a room and be ready to play. Personally I wont get near anything that has to do with aol or icq....both had my comp running at record low speeds and record high crashes..both are unistalled...The reason I dig mIRC is that the possiblities are endless, bots can control spam and with scripts anything is possible. BTW...ignoring in irc is as easy as hitting "ignore"...ya i agree its more complicated and takes more to learn but thats because its better  I often idle in my irc chat rooms, sumtimes for several days and my comp runs flawlessly, for me the program does nothing to interfear with my comps performance...and as I previously stated the owner/coowner/masters in irc rooms have control so I just don't see how unwanted peeps would be a prob. I often !kb unwanted spammers in my pub room and having DMed and owning irc rooms it seems like the perfect venue to hold a session. With irc you have a chanserv in the room all the time so the room is active with or without a game. Making it a great place to play (it seems) or simply talk bout the game. This would allow peeps from anywhere to hold sessions in these rooms no matter whut time of day..it would be as easy as idlin' there till sum peeps show and then throwing together a quick session. With the bot rollin dice it is np...plus the bot(s) can be scripted to do things...such as respond to player actions or DM commands...sum friends in #kanbs run a trivia bot several times a week, we basically play trivial pursuit with the bot in full control. It asks questions (hard ones), gives hints, tracks time and keeps score, including current score rankings. If you havent seen what is possible in irc then I can't suggest anything except droping by #-SoD- and saying hello... </STRONG>
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As for the comp trouble thing, mine is opposite. mIRC caused my comp to run very slow and crash more. However, I have AIM running all the time, as well as MSN Messenger, and usually Y!M, too and they don't cause problems with my comp. I don't have ICQ because it crashed my computer everytime I tried to open it.
Back in spring, me and these friends I mentioned earlier were doing an ezboard based RPG. We did the RPing on AIM, but posted the chat log and recorded the data(how much GP we had, what items we had, etc) on the EZboard that one of my friends had set up specifically for this purpose. It was similar to D&D and, in many ways, based on D&D; but it was a dif style from D&D as far as how it was done. We didn't bother with dice rolling stuff. Same with our 'freestyle' RPGs, only not posting on an ezboard. Anyway, on ths ezboard RPG, one of my friends would always have his computer on AIM and keep the chatroom we RP'd in open. 'Re-opening' a chatroom, though, is as easy as naming the 'new' chat with the same name used for the 'old' chat. And if you pic a name that's strange enough, you decrease the chances of unwanted guests. (Good example is 'II111III111IIIIII11I'(in AIM, 1s and Is look identical), we used one like this to keep one of my friends' little brother outta the chat because he kept inviting himself and annoying us. Other good examples are 'AAKdhgalkea AHeka42'
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<STRONG>If you have already played using AIM then you do have an advantage on me, I have never played AD&D in a chat room but I do have experience with all the discussed topics just not all together....it's not like i'm going to dust off the old books and get more irc rooms but I would be interested in helping anyone to do that. I can teach you some basic things bout irc that would make it easier to use....and it could become very popular...</STRONG>
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I have experience RPing on AIM(been doing so for almost 1½ years now), but the closest I've come to playing AD&D is BG1 and IWD. We started to play AD&D in a chat once, but it was too late at night and all we got done was creating characters. As experienced as I am with AIM, I'm equally lacking in experience playing AD&D.