Those of you who play online campaigns: How do you do it? What resources do you use? Simple video chat? Roll20?

Those of you who play online campaigns: How do you do it? What resources do you use? Simple video chat? Roll20?

Those of you who play online campaigns: How do you do it? What resources do you use? Simple video chat? Roll20?

14 thoughts on “Those of you who play online campaigns: How do you do it? What resources do you use? Simple video chat? Roll20?”

  2. Google Hangouts, with or without video depending on the MC and on bandwidth, with a real-time collaboration tool like Gdrive-draw, realtimeboard, Prezi or Cacoo to share characters,, images, build the relationship map and other notes. Either dicestream or Google Hangouts IM foir die.

  3. Google Hangouts with DiceStream. A group I’m in played Monsterhearts for several months this way. Other than occasional technical glitches with connections and equipment, it worked fairly easily. We used the Counter to track xp and used the Text bar to display our conditions. We also each had a Google Doc character sheet and a system for doing texts and “Snapchats” to Turn Someone On via social media.

  4. hangouts. A cam streaming is definitely better (one feels quite stupid talking to a computer screen, if there are some faces in it, it’s better). We use Dice Stream to roll dice and to add names, counters and brief descriptions of our characters to the screen. PC’s sheets and other things that need to be shared and frequently modified are usually shared through google drive. If an urge for a quick-drawn map arises, there’s an App for that too, but I can’t remember the name… it’s not super handy though, so we use it only when necessary.

  6. descriptions, options and moves are in the character sheets document, accesible to the whole group and usually perpetually open in another tab. That’s not immediate as being everyone around a tabel, but it’s the best we’ve got so far.

    If the MC wants to keep moves and others flag at hand (to look at them when the need arise) they can write it down or group them in a personal document.

  7. Aaron Griffin it’s easy to do on a shared whiteboard: upload the playbooks (converting to jpg if necessary) and let the players doodle on them with the writing tools.

  10. Aaron Griffin We just had shared docs with all the same info as a playbook. You could also scan a playbook as a jpg, use it as the background in a Google drawings doc and draw on it.

  12. Richard Robertson I actually did that the other day for #Sundayamswords .  Worked great.  My 15″ laptop had the Hangout, and my 11″ Chromebook had the playmat and rules reference on the only two tabs in a window by themselves, maximized.  It was GREAT.

  13. We used g+ hangouts with the roll20 app, but over time roll20 faded from use a bit, just used dicestream and Drive.

    I only had one screen at the time, but have since gone to using two.

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