Hmm, D&D over team speak. I wonder if that would work?
Now we just need an encrypted multi sided dice viewer for all to see! ;-)
Ahh the early 80's when you weren't a Geek unless you knew a DM!

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/02/04/180224

Ahem. You weren't a nerd unless you were a DM.

Oddly enough, my kid was asking what the funny "notebook" with the cool pictures on it was a couple of months ago. DM screen, naturally.

Heck, I think I still have that white box with the three little books in them somewhere.

And the Second Edition stuff as well.

And the minatures. Of course. Man, I stank at painting them.

The dice could be rolled by someone with a webcam.

DND Jumped the shark with 3.5. The new 4.0 game license and distribution along with their new virtual tabletop will die a horrible death. If you want a real table top RPG system that can be used with dnd, whitewolf etc. check out the links below.

http://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/
http://www.battlegroundsgames.com
http://www.kloogeinc.com/

I actually own a copy of fantasy grounds and it is everything that the WOTC DND Tabletop wants to be.

The major down side to the dnd tabletop is that you have to pay a 10 dollar monthly fee and you only have access to the software 3 times a month. That is absurd!

Playing a pen and paper rpg over a virtual table top is completely different than playing with a group around a table. It is less of a social event and more of a game. You actually get things accomplished.

Oh, that would suck all the joy out of it.

"You enter the tavern and see a buxom barmaid leaning against a stool."
"I hit on her."
"It doesn't work."
"What? I'm this 16th level fighter with a charisma of 17 and bags of gold hanging off of me!"
"Look, I can only stretch fantasy so far, and there ain't no way it's ever gonna work for you."



And we laughed for ten minutes, I swear.

How many D&D books are there now? When I left, they had a second Monster Manual, so that would be four.