A few friends all around the country want to play DW with me online, but I’m tech-limited: the last time I’ve DMed anything online was using OpenRPG, with character sheets in tree-sctructure files and everything typed. Yes, there goes 10 years or so.
You see, I have my f2f gaming group, so I’ve never needed to find online alternatives…
So, what I need:
-some way to send and receive videos from them (heard Skype is good for group calls, but never tried)
What I’d like, but can live without:
-some way to roll dice online instead asking them to move the camera when rolling
What it would be great, but not really needed:
-some way to host their playbooks online (maybe just take a pic of them?)
Ideas? Tips?
Google Hangouts work, as does Roll20. I’ve used both and they are great. I would lean towards Roll20, as it has a way to collect and store your important notes.
On the DW Discord server we use channels… you can roll dice using a bot, or use the Honor system. If you want to do maps and such you can still use Roll20 or the excellent Roll For Your Party. Here’s a guide to using it:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N8m0kyuFUuhH1eIvKuzIAN6xKBNl4Uza
rollforyour.party – Roll For Your Party
No maps needed. Honor system is good for me, but I’d like to see their faces since non-verbal communication is important to me.
Marcelo Paschoalin Discord actually does support Video now, though I haven’t used it.
Hangouts is probably fine. Definitely checkout Roll For Your Party.
Does it? I need to check that. And Roll for your party too.
rollforyour.party – Roll For Your Party
dungeon-world.com – Dungeon World – Wave hands like a muppet/ has the player sheets and moves
You can also just have them use the SRD site, but I doubt it will be better than them printing off their own pages.
They have the playbooks – and everything must be in Portuguese to them. But thanks anyway.
Oh, sorry!
No problem, man. I should have mentioned that earlier.
Try appear.in – appear.in for an awesome video/audio/text chat with windows sharing or realtimeboard.com for a very versatile shared whiteboard with v/a/text chat. I love this last one.
Need to check that.
just as an example check how I use RTB for my Undying campaign
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wOx-915XSE1DtaJ1rjNnC–jM-j7ue73OJ5yBCOLcPSxOKH0FunAvB7abOaPE0PueWxAcQ27UI84P3F2jlnLuw78mens1JXOHjtp=s0
When you click on the grey frame you get an iframe overlay with kumu R-map. For DW I use (via iframe in RTB) this dice roller i made in google sheets powered by js.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/al4YZ3ZEqyN8PiqRuGaMEYc9iTVIGo_YHpGyn2MW4PzfaL9kJGJ6Xz7uwKkh7fllrATE3XN3Xh4OzA0tvM522d7e2g0fA-WE9ukW=s0
If You want my best advice, if You can type fast You should use a group written chat. That way You can avoid 100% of all connection problems that come from using a video chat (it’s terrible when people talk at the same time and You can’t really hear them. Also, this way everything is recorded), and You can show video and pictures by sharing them. Any shyness problem is surpassed and You can easily gather your toughts. Also, this tends to zero any issue with “side chat”.
For dice, roll20 or go with the old fashion honor system.
Adamo Leoni Video and audio chats offer a real-life like experience, writing would be horribly slower, even if you are a master typist. Decent people is not used to overlap conversation or interrupt others anyway. If connection is an issue, voice-only chat can go a long way.
Well, i did quite a few games using this method. Once I played with a group of people from all over europe, with crazy accents and worse connections. Also, when there is delay people talk one over the other because of the delay, not because they are idiots.
What i am saying is: after I tried tried both system, i came to the conclusion that written chat is far more reliable. Now, of course, You may disagree, but these are just opinions and I gave my advice to the OP who asked for help.
Adamo Leoni Back in the day (OpenRPG), I’ve played a lot using written chat. This time I want to try something new. But if all goes south, I may return to the beginnings… 🙂