Pulp Games by Web Cam Idea

[Alfrik]

Not sure what board to throw this on so chose this one. Here is an Idea Ive had knocking around for several years to aid in rpg games in general. Can a free Standing Web cam be put on a long cable and moved around a game board to show on line players what their character can see etc? Also using Ventrilo or Teamspeak etc to have voice communications players can speak and be heard. Granted you would not have more than a few players on the Web side of the game, and probably split them between the opposing sides. When its their turn, the cam gets moved to where they generally indicate they want to see and then give insturctions as to how to move their couple of figures and or shoot, cast etc.

Now I readily admit I am so not a Techno Geek that I am probably classable as an AntiGeek... But the out lying web player or 2 that might otherwise be the only player in his town that he knows of could get in some games now and then?

Play would be slow but I have always held to my 3 rules of gaming of what make gaming fun are:

1. Lots of Dice rolling
2. Consume drinks and junk snack food
3. BS about the rules, the game and gaming in general
4. If you dont like the way the game plays, set up and run a better one!

So, inclusion of players via moveable web cam and voice chat, workable?

[Operator5]

I have been running play by forum games for about a year now. They are not as sophisticated as what you propose, but if I had the tech set up I would do it in an instant. Right now, players move by grid movement which I overlay over a photo of the board set up.

[HerbyF]

That would be fairly easy to do nowadays. Portable web cams are available that are not much taller than a 28mm figure. It should be easy to just set the cam down behind the figure and go from there. they even have wireless cam now, so the cord wouldn't be in the way.