Online handles

As I have stated elsewhere, I am pretty sure it was Roll d20 that got hacked and the reason I am trying to swap everything to a new email… so my trust there is low. If it does it to a 2nd email, I will be filthy.

I am signing up for a/cs with Discord and Rolld20 though.

(We now have several threads about this).

Blair (Kuraban) and myself had a bit of a play on rolld20 (using discord to talk to each other). Seems like it would be ok to play with as long as everyone had "press to talk" activated.

Certainly better than the option of not playing at all that is for sure.

I've spoken to Connors on Skype before so know he has a mic and camera (though I don't think camera is necessary, but could be useful) on his computer. The big job there would be getting him to install discord (easier IMO than in browser) and get used to using it all. Maybe Angus could help with that, given they will be isolated together, though they might need two computers with mic/camera, not sure if they have them or not.

Anyway, those are just some of my thoughts on it all. Good to see you all eager to keep playing despite the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in.

Cheers
Shane (Ballarat)

It allows us to use cards for initiative, option to create our own cards for our inspiration deck and set up macros for dice rolls. That way you each player can set up different attacks based on weapons/spells.

Example I want to attack with my short sword, clicks short sword attack button I've made and proceed to roll which rolls a d20 and takes into account modifiers Ive put in.
It outputs "character name makes a short sword attack [dice result + modifiers eg 19] "
If its enough to hit I press my short sword attack dmg button and get "character name deals [dice result + modifiers]

I think this could be a real winner for us playing online.
Would be great if others had a play with it and see what they think.

• Tabletop simulator. Seems to have potential since it has a lot of premade assets we can use but requires us to buy it (from memory roughly $15 each though some may already have it) which allows players and DM to set up table stuff, best feature from what I've heard, it has a flip the table button.
• Fantasy grounds which I've had a tiny bit to do with playing around with it ages ago, didn't seem overly user friendly for the DM trying to learn how it all works and not sure if it requires a lot of money to get all the content that we might want to run games (article made it sound quite expensive)
• Roll 20 is free and from the tutorial Im roughly halfway through seems pretty user friendly and straightforward to use from the DMs and players side of things, all assetts we would probably need seem to be free but there is an option for premium content unsure if there are any already free generated maps etc for us to use, will check out after tutorial

All of these allow DM master control and players limited control, Dm able to have things hidden from player view and virtual dice rolls for all.