I hope I can explain this well. I know that some of us are using internet apps to assist
Traveller gameplay. I also know that how this is done is a broad field. I run my game in
_Slack_. If you aren't familiar, _Slack_ is an app that people use at work to provide:
running text like this email list but more streamlined, and video of voice calling. In the
simplest terms, my players and I agree to a time and then join a Video conference call for
the actual game session. All the while, I take notes in a running chat log that anyone can
read.

There are plenty of internet apps that will do this: _Zoom_, _Discord_, _Teams_, _Slack_
which I chose, and probably a few others. So, if you are playing remotely and one of those
terms is familiar, then you probably have a good idea of what I talking about.

I chose _Slack_ because I had used it at work in the twenty teens, and because one of the
projects I had to do was to write a _Slack bot_. These _bots_ are just computer programs
hooked into the app that can read and respond. People choose _Discord_ because there are
apps in that space to assist running RPGs. I didn't choose _Discord_ because the its bot
ecosystem is tightly aligned with D&D. As a person who uses and can write bots for _Slack_,
I can create custom stuff for my _Slack_ workspace. I spent some time playing with this
stuff again last Monday.

After all of that, my question:

Q: What kind of stuff would you have a bot assist in a remote RPG system like _Slack_?

--
Chris

      __o          "All I was trying to do was get home from work."
    _`\<,_           -Rosa Parks
___(*)/_(*)____.___o____..___..o...________ooO..._____________________
Christopher Sean Hilton                    [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]