The current 5e group I'm in is made up of co-workers, we've been playing online every other week for awhile now. We are currently in Ravinica which is a lot of fun. My first PC died mostly because I didn't really like him, and we needed a healbot/thief. What I'm really diggin about these folks is the following: We are fast and loose with the rules (ie no one is looking up things in a rule book). We spend a lot of time giggling and roleplaying.
Having used roll20 and google hangouts (or whatever its called now) I have to say Discord is probably one of the best options for doing non irl table top stuff. Minus the whole map thing (which I'm sure there is a work around). I noticed the other day on youtube a tutorial about playing nerd games using discord.... hold on for my google fu, ah here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yg-GyrcccI
The other day on a total lark, and I mean total lark (I never buy things for myself, and I never buy things without researching them) I went ahead and bought "The Wild Beyond the Witchlight" for 5e.
OH NO! SHANE'S LEFT THE OSR!
Nah not at all kids! Don't worry. This is actually the FIRST real thing I've bought for 5e other than the starter set. I was gifted the DMG and PHB from a previous group.
Do not fret good folks, I actually just downloaded this amazing organizational software for writing: https://bibisco.com/
I'm trying to nail down the Gygax 75 challenge into a real thing. I'm currently amalgamating ideas that I had written on the blog and in other various places (like notebooks and random google drive and libreoffice files). The one thing I did wrong when I started the challenge in the first place was that I didn't decide on the sytem (sometimes I get analysis paralysis). That and my ADD kicked in and I switched gears like I always do. The good news is this software allows me to jump from thing to thing quickly. As long as I maintain some focus on the overall idea.
I'm trying to write something every morning for 15 minutes.
Whether its shit or not.
I'll hire an editor hahah.
In other random news, I think I'm going to try and get some kinda roll20 western marches, marsh's? marshmellows? type game thing happening. What my thought this morning was, was to basically use all the awesome online generating tools to build a hexcrawl and then let the players be in the drivers seat.
Could be fun?
It could also be my brain having the morning coffee kick in.
Mostly its because I'm not currently DMing a game, and that muscle is something I need to flex once in awhile.
Anyways I'm off to work.
Good news I restrung my strat yesterday and I've got it down to about 8 minutes. That's almost pit crew level!
I've been using Roll20 for years, but when the audio became more trouble that it's worth I switched my games' audio to Discord. We still use Roll20 for player video and all the rest (char sheets and maps and tokens), but the audio is all on Discord. Has been working well for years now.
ReplyDeleteFor a long time i did basically the same thing using Google chat/hangouts, however it now times out after an hour. Discord has far superior audio quality and less wacky feedback loops. When I've ran one shot games on roll20 I've used the whole system, just for ease of getting going. If I got a regular group I'd switch to exactly what you are using
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