Though it does help facilitate gaming with old friends across long distances, I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on the idea of gaming through voice chats such as Ventrillo or Skype. I've only tried it once and although the results were more or less acceptable so long as everyone makes a conscious effort not to talk over each other (which people tend to do during voice chats anyway.) But still, it seemed like a certain "personal" element was missing. Probably something to do with face-to-face contact inherent tabletop gaming.
It has become a question of preference. Voice-only games, while impersonal, do allow the "gaming connection" to be reestablished with people who have long been absent from our gaming community, particularly recently, when a very good friend of mine was able to reconnect via Voice Chat. Is it worth the impersonal medium to game with old friends again?
As long as the game is kept to a manageable size...I think so.
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