Reply To: Curious about setting up online tabletop RP group – help wanted

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Thank you both for the responses.  I’ve got a couple of starting points to look at.  I’m leaning towards 5th ed out of the two, as its more familiar so it should be easier to aproach and garner interest in, if this is something I choose to do.

We used to play D&D every week for many years.  We completed Night Below and made it most of the way through Return to the Temple Of Elemental Evil, along with others.  It’d be all day sessions.  I don’t know how people get anything done in a 2 hour sessions.  It used to take us that long to get started.  I’m looking to recapture some of that, but not necessarily have an epic 20 level campaign fall apart ofter the thrid session as the only healer decides its not for him (so short modules at least to begin with allow us a break to swap characters if need be).  We never played with minis, but I have thousands now and its always nice to have an excuse to get some out or paint some more.  Far from essential though.

I was only mentioning the old stuff because its easy to assume people only want the newest thing.  I didn’t want it all getting discounted without thought. So what am I looking to achieve?  I want to get my friends doing something together again, by removing as many hurdles as I can: By making it so no one has to leave their house to join in.  I want to revisit the fun we used to have while trying to keep the work anyone has to do down to a minimum.  The game is an excuse to get together, talk, be silly, have fun, and maybe find an inventive way to overcome that dragon over there, and to see what unexpected craziness happens.

As for the tech, right now I’d be happy running it all through MS Teams or Zoom or something and trusting everyone to be honest about their rolls.  I can screen share maps etc when needed, and PM/email handouts etc.  I’ve never seen behind the scenes on Discord.  Perhaps that might be useful.  I can also share party files through my google drive/google docs.  I’ll definitely take a good look at Roll20 before I commit to anything though.  I don’t yet know what it can and cant do, or how intuitive and easy to use it is.

More opinions are still definitely welcome.

 

BTW is anyone getting email notifications about follow ups to posts etc?  I’ve not seen one in a long time so its either broken for me or broken for everyone.