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Oh wow, what an oxymoron. Anyway, I caught this thread at the Wizards of the Coast message boards about playing Dungeons & Dragons on the computer and the general concensus was Baldur's Gate and Return to Temple of Elemental Evil were the closest approximations of AD&D (2nd Ed.) and 3.5. However, that doesn't really solve the problem of playing D&D online as D&D Online is an unwanted bastard while Atari is not without its own set of faults when it comes to its D&D video games. So the solution?

Honestly, all you need to run any pen-and-paper RPG, irregardless if it's D&D or not, is a chat program. Enter OpenRPG, an open-source program that combines chat-program, dice roller, and map generator in one. It's still not face to face gaming, but it's the next best thing. And the potential I see for chat-based RPGs is the suspense/paranoia aspect. No more calling out players to a room to have a "private" chat with them. One can easily send a private message to a player regardling what they see or hear that the others don't, including being dominated by a vampire or replaced by a doppelganger.