Roll20 Takes Online Table Top Gaming to the Next Level
June 4, 2012 by dracs
Have you ever tried role playing a game of D&D over Skype? Sometimes it can be a real pain to get everything sorted and the lack of a shared dungeon to move your minis around means its never quite as good as when your playing as a group. But that is all changing with the new Roll20 virtual tabletop!
Roll20 started as a Kickstarter project, but has now been successfully funded and will has entered a closed beta stage.
The program brings you a new and adaptive way to play your tabletop games online, with text and voice chat to help you and your party interact with one another.
It also offers a wide range of art options and even sound tracks to help immerse you in your game.
The system can also be adapted for use with a wide variety of role playing games, meaning you won't be limited in how you play.
But that's enough of me blathering on, watch the video and see for yourself.
*UPDATE*
We just received word that Roll20 is entering into its open Beta stage today, meaning you can now take it out for a test run.
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Interesting …
This looks like a combination of a good vassal module, skype, and a few other useful extras that could become a great virtual tabletop.
I think this is looking very useful, thanks for the heads up
Hope it will be a critical hit
Hey, for the record we opened our beta today. So… everyone feel free to try us out!
Noticed on the website 😀
Will definitely check it out.
It looks really really good! It seems to have a lot of better options than vassal, if it has a really good server and i can make modules for specific games it would be great to port warmahordes to this.
What a fabulous idea!
Been playing Fantasy Grounds for years on several popular RPG systems. I wonder if this has anything really new to it?