Playing Online

Playing Online

PadraicE 24 Mar 2020 02:22

So with the "Rona" impacting people being able to go out I thought I'd put it out there and ask if anyone has experience with any online dnd tools for running the games.
Options I know of:

• 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.

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finished tutorial thoughts

PadraicE 24 Mar 2020 03:24

Finished the ROLL 20 tutorial, couple of bugs with the tutorial text box not appearing where it should etc but overall pretty easy to sort out and straight forward.

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.

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Last edited on 24 Mar 2020 03:26 by PadraicE Show more

Re: finished tutorial thoughts

Elsmith 24 Mar 2020 04:37

Jason, Eric, Kara, Lincoln and myself have just started a one shot using D20. (Chatting over discord). We’re a bit shaky, still learning, but it seems to work well enough.

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Re: finished tutorial thoughts

Vamprey 25 Mar 2020 10:20

G'day All,

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)

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Re: finished tutorial thoughts

PadraicE 25 Mar 2020 13:55

Definitely agree we would want push to talk on! Pretty sure Angus and Hunter use discord a fair bit so they'd be able to get it going for him either on laptop or phone.

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Re: finished tutorial thoughts

Elsmith 25 Mar 2020 23:23

Yep, ya want push to talk. That’s how we did it.
Otherwise you’d hear me absent mindedly making weird noises.

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Re: finished tutorial thoughts

Connors 26 Mar 2020 02:42

I am waiting to see how it works with Blair GMing before I make the big step of trying to work out new programs.

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).

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Re: finished tutorial thoughts

Lilmouse 02 Apr 2020 01:04

I've been using Roll20 for a couple years off and on, really good platform with a lot of options to expand on. Especially if you get some nice dynamic lighting settings going.
If you need help with it Lincoln would be the most knowledgeable as he runs a campaign on it currently, and has been for a while.

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Contacts

Connors 03 Apr 2020 23:43

This will take some time (and I might run a smaller, separate practice run before this massive campaign), but first, can people please put their contact details in the following thread on my central site? Cheers.

Online handles

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