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Evasive Eshin Assassin






Was just wondering if anyone has ever tried a roleplaying game over teams or some sort of chat service and how it went?
   
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Witch Hunter in the Shadows





 usernamesareannoying wrote:
Was just wondering if anyone has ever tried a roleplaying game over teams or some sort of chat service and how it went?
During the lockdown, with various sites like roll20 tried out for characters sheets, dice, maps, etc.

It was a mixed bag as one player in particular much preferred face to face play, another had a lot of technical issues with their connection. The live map was useful for a few games (particularly Lancer) but also took a lot of extra prep time.

We tried facebook chat and discord. We didn't try half-online and half in person which I imagine would go about as poorly as teams meetings of the same nature.
   
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Evasive Eshin Assassin






darn... i use teams for work so am used to it but i guess if you're not it could be fiddly.
i was feeling the itch to play a little something but there are no local groups so thought about this.
   
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We used some Roll20 and Discord.

It has all the drawbacks and advantages as any other online meeting vs. Face-to-face meetings.

You lose almost all the side chat and cross-talk that makes RPGs fun.

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yeah i was afraid of that.... makes it potentially very dry and meeting like.
   
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Yeah, I did the whole discord + roll20 thing over lockdown.

It was ok, but you definitely lose the fun of being in the same room where you can see each others expressions.

Talking over each other was also a big problem.
   
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Having done probably well over 100 sessions online in the last few years, both pre and during Covid, it certainly doesn't beat face-to-face gaming... but if the alternative is no gaming at all I'm going to take the quirks and foibles of online sessions every time.

I do find it takes some adapting, but things like talking over one another and the more limited ability to express things physically are things you can get used to. A little more effort on voice work and descriptions addresses the latter, and just getting a sense for timing and pausing a little before speaking sorts the former (basically, everyone will soon realise that online, cross-talk just means a cacophonous mess rather than the multiple coversations you'd get at a table, but if you're like me, less off-topic background chatter is actually a good thing!).

I'm an oddball in that I use my usual maps+minis setup over a top-down webcam view rather than Roll20 or another Virtual Tabletop, but by this point me and my regular groups have got very used to the setup. There are also plenty of full-featured VTTs available to use either on their own or with a video call service like Teams, Zoom, Discord or Google Meet.

For me, online means I can get regular weekly games in and with players literally half the world away, and while the odd in person sessions I get are still special and very different, the issues with online games are outweighed by the ability to play at all, with a great group I'd not be able to play with physically.

YMMV, but if it's your only option then I'd still definitely recommend giving it a go.

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