Alternative to PbM Games

[Adm.Lee]

I'm now 4 sessions into playing a v2.2 game on Discord + Roll20. The main snag appears to be that I (alone) cannot see the GM's shared screen on Discord, so he has to use the Roll20 map more often.

Also, Roll20's initiative counter seems wonky.

[Tegyrius]

Roll20 seems to have recently broken something with the initiative tracker. It used to be a lot more robust.

I, too, am in the Roll20 + Discord camp (though not in the good admiral's campaign). My usual groups have worked out the general protocol of using Discord's voice channel for the actual game and text chat for side chatter. This helps keep the chatter from derailing play. No video chat - bandwidth is a precious natural resource and I find video distracts from the virtual tabletop.

- C.

[ChalkLine]

Originally Posted by Tegyrius

Roll20 seems to have recently broken something with the initiative tracker. It used to be a lot more robust.

I find the tracker takes up too much time, I just use a notepad and keep track that way.

in fact I've pared back a lot of my map use there. It slows the game down and turns it into a boardgame

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by flisternine

you can try RPG, hope you'll like it

Hmm... this "might" be of interest to some people in regards to the specific topic of this thread, but it seems an awful lot like spam

[Lurken]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Hmm... this "might" be of interest to some people in regards to the specific topic of this thread, but it seems an awful lot like spam

Doing it full on Discord is working fairly good for us, I'd say =)