Tips, Tricks and Tools for Virtual Play

[d4caltrops]

Hi trollfriends,

With travel and all kinds of face to face activities getting disrupted by quarantine and isolation, I thought I'd share the results of a bunch of research and work I did for my friend group. I was looking for options for online board games, tabletop RPG tools, and voice and video chat that worked cross platform. One of my friends only has a tablet right now so I also looked into tablet compatibility and crossplay too.

I wasn't sure if this would be a whole lot of what everybody already knew, or not. In casual conversation, I was surprised to discover that a fair few people hadn't ever really done a lot with online play/tabletop/voice/video chat. So in case it helps anyone, here you go.

(I also made sure to throw a bone to T&T as a suggestion for new players, because it's great! )

aspiring-grognard.net/playonline/

Take care and stay healthy everyone.

[Piper]

Thanks for posting this.

A funny story: the last time I played an real-time video chat based game? One of the participants fell asleep. The rest of us tried yelling in unison to wake him up but we finally had to sign off.

[darrght]

Mar 15, 2020 17:12:48 GMT -5 d4caltrops said:

Hi trollfriends,

With travel and all kinds of face to face activities getting disrupted by quarantine and isolation, I thought I'd share the results of a bunch of research and work I did for my friend group. I was looking for options for online board games, tabletop RPG tools, and voice and video chat that worked cross platform. One of my friends only has a tablet right now so I also looked into tablet compatibility and crossplay too.

I wasn't sure if this would be a whole lot of what everybody already knew, or not. In casual conversation, I was surprised to discover that a fair few people hadn't ever really done a lot with online play/tabletop/voice/video chat. So in case it helps anyone, here you go.

(I also made sure to throw a bone to T&T as a suggestion for new players, because it's great! )

aspiring-grognard.net/playonline/

Take care and stay healthy everyone.

Thanks d4caltrops for this thorough review of remote gaming resources. I have been using Skype to run a single character of one of our trollish brethren from here on the 'bridge through various self-penned and published materials. Lately, I'm running a simple MSPE adventure; the first time ever I've used that system