Online gaming classified board has opened

[ffilz]

Finarvyn has graciously opened a sub-board for online game classified. This will provide us a central place to ask about games, start new ones, and for existing ones to indicate they are open to new players.

I invite each game that is actively running to start a thread with a bit of a blurb about your campaign. Use the thread title (which you can always edit) to indicate if you are actively recruiting or currently closed to new players, or even just could squeeze someone else in.

odd74.proboards.com/board/138/online-game-classifieds

Frank

[Finarvyn]

This was a "popular demand" thing. Don't give me too much credit.

[Deleted]

I've recently become very infatuated with this and want to know how I can join online D&D campaigns.

[Otto Harkaman]

I know there is a lot of software out there to play online games but I was wondering if anyone has used zoom or know of a tutorial about using it for gaming?

[Piper]

Sept 8, 2020 16:04:08 GMT -6 Otto Harkaman said:

I know there is a lot of software out there to play online games but I was wondering if anyone has used zoom or know of a tutorial about using it for gaming?

I participate in a two weekly games, both use Zoom. It works fine, but since I only participate I can’t tell you much about running them with same. If the host had the paid version, the game can run as long as you want.

The free version has a 40 minute session limit. We got around that by taking a10-15 minute break, then starting a new session.

[muddy]

I've been running a weekly game online for about two months. We've recently gone to every other week. We've used google, zoom, and discord. Zoom has seemed the easiest to use (discord was good, maybe best, but seemed to need much more bandwidth) so I've gotten an account and we use that.

I set up my laptop for dungeon, online die rolling, etc and use desktop for zooming with players. The dungeon is my own, created specifically for using on PC rather than being printed off - so optimized for ease of use as a screen friendly pdf . One of the players has an excellent mapping program (I'll edit and add which when I recall what it is)and he joins the game twice, once as a player and once sharing his map screen (he has two monitors). On our screens, his mapping screen is large and center, with the players and myself down the side. It wonderfully recreates players sitting around graph paper and mapping as they go.

If you want something more, like player tokens on the map, or your group isn't into old school mapping out the dungeon then this won't necessarily work. But if you run things mostly theater of the mind then it's not terribly different from playing in person.

[ahabicher]

Sept 8, 2020 16:04:08 GMT -6 Otto Harkaman said:

I know there is a lot of software out there to play online games but I was wondering if anyone has used zoom or know of a tutorial about using it for gaming?

I have no experience with Zoom, but I have played on Google Hangouts in the past, once on Discord, then on MS Teams and recently on Google Meet.
All of them have worked basically in the same way, so I assume it is the same with Zoom as well, just like a video call or online meeting would go.
My favourite is Google; the old Hangouts used to have all kinds of extras like dice rollers and such. Google Meet also has Dice roller add-ons but I have not tested those. I just trust people to roll their own dice and that usually works just fine.
Google has an option to record the game, if needed, and it saves the Video automatically in a Google Drive.

The only important bit is: You need to keep order in the talking, because talking over each other ends up with nobody understanding anything.
Therefore there needs to be some discipline about who talks, and how they are interrupted, if that is needed.
Combat is best served by the GM going around the group in a fixed order, so nobody gets overlooked.