So I am moving my campaign onto google hangouts. I have a couple of questions. How do you all handle dice rolling in a google hangout enviroment or do you use a different video hangout?
So I am moving my campaign onto google hangouts.
So I am moving my campaign onto google hangouts.
We just roll real dice on the honor system.
Well, back in the day there were a few dice rolling apps built for the Hangouts environment, but since apps got torpedoed (and since the text version of Hangouts’ built in dice rolling function doesn’t work in the video chat for unfathomable reasons) we mostly use Roll20 instead. There are built in character sheets with macros and whatnot, and of course you can draw maps, and other miscellaneous quality of life features.
You can also use Roll20’s video and voice chat, which means you can see each other and still see the play table at the same time, but the voice chat at least is horrifically laggy, buggy and generally awful. Maybe you can use just the video feed and handle voice with some other platform in the background.
Which, yeah, could be Hangouts, but it’s so fundamentally lacking in even the most basic chat features (push to talk, mic volume, nicknaming, persistent text logs, the list is very long) that there’s really no reason to use it in place of other, better built platforms–like Discord. Which actually has bots that you can use for dice rolls if you don’t want all the Roll20 bells and whistles.
These days I just can’t recommend Hangouts for gaming.
Roll20 with no video or audio and Discord audio.
I love appear.in – appear.in too (responsive, single window sharing, no account required), still no dice roller tho
You can use rolz.org too
Roll For Your Party is what the Gauntlet Community uses, it’s great and Shane seems to be improving it all the time. Check it out 😀
rollforyour.party – Roll For Your Party
Discord server works great for RPGs, but only has text and voice, not video. Works great for “play be text message” between sessions!
Discord does video in direct messages.
We’ve found the audio quality to be really poor compared to other services.
We’ve used Roll for your Party in on-line games, works great in a separate tab.
Toimu actually, Discord now does video, too.
I play on Discord with a dice rolling bot.
I like the Roll for your Party. That looks great. Do the players get to roll the dice there in that room. Everyone uses the same dice I assume?
I’ll just echo a few others and say we use Roll20 for the dice rolling, character sheets, background images, music, etc. and use hangouts for our video chat. It has worked well for our group of 7 – I personally have gone with a 2 monitor set up that works great, but I also frequently just use my laptop and split the windows, with roll20 being larger and just enough to see who’s talking at the moment on hangouts. Will be checking out roll for your party now though.
Robert Harper Players can make their own coloured dice, and even put them under a label with their name, and drag them to their own part of the screen. And, yeah, you share the link to the room and everyone can see what is rolled and has permission to roll 😀 Have a fiddle with it!
There’s nothing best than rolling actual physical dice.
Honor!
It works lol
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