I’m thinking of buying Hero Quest again. I like that the rules aren’t too complicated.
I was thinking of how people used to play chess years ago by sending each other their next move by mail. Maybe we could do something similar with IRC and a webcam to livestream the table. Anybody interested? I’m in the UTC+0 timezone. In theory, you won’t need a board to play but practice could be different.
It would be easy to set up a chat room on libera.chat. I mention IRC specifically because I’m not into Discord. It’s too busy and makes the fans on my laptop very loud.
Edit: I’m going to have to put my participation in this on hold. I did get a webpage set up that streams from my web camera. I’m also in the middle of getting the page to show the most recent frame grab of the last state of the board in case the camera happens to be off. But, I’ve realised that my cameras are all built into devices (smartphone and desktop monitor). So while it tests well, I can’t angle these in a way that frames the board best, and I need my phone for other things most of the time :) I’ll come back to this if I ever end up with two dedicated cameras (one from above and one at a side angle).


You can use IRC via a web browser these days so it’s even easier than in the 90’s. You’d start here https://web.libera.chat/ and I’m happy to explain anything you need help with! And as for the sessions, I was thinking we could do both: if we can agree on a time, maybe do an hour in real-time together, but otherwise just leave messages in the chat when possible. I’d update the board based on that.