My friends and I often play at home.I usually act as the host and immerse all players in the story of the dungeon.But it happens that everyone has their own business and it is not possible to gather enough people to play, so sometimes we play online.If we play with our own company, we do it through discord or skype, and if I want to find new players, I go to other applications.Now, for example, I read ashley madison reviews, many people say that there you can find people close to your interests, so I'll try to play there.What do you think?
I've been in an ongoing online game for almost five months now and just joined a second one that started two days ago. I found both of those through a D&D themed Discord server, the first by chatting and coming across somebody from that game who suggested I try joining it and the other via the channel reserved for DMs to advertise their games. For both games we use Roll 20 as a VTT for maps and converse over Discord. I also joined a one shot game from an ad there and was later invited directly by that DM, along with a few others he'd already played with, for another such game (that DM uses the Foundry VTT and also Discord for voice).
I've responded to a number of game ads on that server, usually either getting a response of "sorry the game is already full" or just no response at all. Once I did get a response, chatted directly with the DM for about an hour, rolled a character and established a basic origin story, was told he'd let me know when he got a full party then never heard back and when I tried to check in a week later for an update he wasn't accepting messages. So easily finding a good game isn't guaranteed and at the very least one ought to frequently check those ads to respond before a bunch of other folks do, but I have found games there. The long running one is great, and while we've only had one session of the other it seems like a good start.
If you want reviews of DMs, groups, and/or players I know there are a few sites that are explicitly for matchmaking with professional (paid) DMs that host reviews but I have not had any experience with them. While quite a few folks seem to be strongly against the idea of paying to play D&D, I'm on the fence there. The DM for my longer running game charges $5 a session per player and I'm fine with that; I spend more on my lunch at work and I get a lot more enjoyment out of a three hour game than I do from some medium grade fried chicken and a candy bar. Though $5 is cheaper than most paid games I've seen advertised ($10-20 seems typical). I'm not opposed to DMs getting reimbursed for the time and effort they put in but I'm also a bit iffy as to whether I, personally, want to drop twenty bucks a week on a game. That aspect is entirely subjective to the person, and experiences will also vary with different DMs.
I play in three online D&D games currently. Interestingly, every DM wants to use Roll 20 for the map/token functions. They all say that the DDB map stuff is too wonky. We typically use Discord or Zoom for voice. The only thing everyone agrees on is using DDB for character sheets and it does that much better than any of the other platforms.
I have a group that meets once a week, and we play online using Roll20.
I met most of the group in an MMO some years back *about 15 ish years ago) and a number of them are good friends in real life, but we enjoyed the regular play, and when the MMO shut down, we tried other MMOs, and a few years ago, one of the group suggested our regular game night (Because the various MMOs didn't capture our attention as our beloved original one did) we try DnD (As he was experienced playing, and DMing, and with Roll20) and I ended up bringing a coworker to the group.) so now we have a few years in.
We meet once a week, using Zoom for chat (We had been using Teamspeak but one of the people has a Mac, and a recent update to the OS did nasty things to Teamspeak, and he was TM at that time), and have a blast, and we kept running no problem during the Pandemic. We paused our main game (We had 2 campaigns complete) and are doing Curse of Strahd module, and nearing the end of that.
I would love to try some other groups, but family makes it hard to devote another night to DnD, plus i am still a bit of a DnD Novice, so if I did have the time, I'd hope for a group that is patient with me....also a mature group more about having fun would be nice, obviously the long history of my current group means that we have a compataible set of attitude.
We played on Discord for voice and streaming of video of my miniatures and terrain. Everyone used DNDBeyond for characters and rolls.
This last week we have been testing out replacing the stream of my minis to using Talespire. Honestly I think I am falling in love with Talespire even if it js just for streaming maps and me moving pieces. The options for players to interact if they buy it may even make it more amazing. Anyhow, it is just an experiment for now but I am having SOOO much fun making maps.
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My friends and I often play at home. I usually act as the host and immerse all players in the story of the dungeon. But it happens that everyone has their own business and it is not possible to gather enough people to play, so sometimes we play online. If we play with our own company, we do it through discord or skype, and if I want to find new players, I go to other applications. Now, for example, I read ashley madison reviews, many people say that there you can find people close to your interests, so I'll try to play there. What do you think?
I've been in an ongoing online game for almost five months now and just joined a second one that started two days ago. I found both of those through a D&D themed Discord server, the first by chatting and coming across somebody from that game who suggested I try joining it and the other via the channel reserved for DMs to advertise their games. For both games we use Roll 20 as a VTT for maps and converse over Discord. I also joined a one shot game from an ad there and was later invited directly by that DM, along with a few others he'd already played with, for another such game (that DM uses the Foundry VTT and also Discord for voice).
I've responded to a number of game ads on that server, usually either getting a response of "sorry the game is already full" or just no response at all. Once I did get a response, chatted directly with the DM for about an hour, rolled a character and established a basic origin story, was told he'd let me know when he got a full party then never heard back and when I tried to check in a week later for an update he wasn't accepting messages. So easily finding a good game isn't guaranteed and at the very least one ought to frequently check those ads to respond before a bunch of other folks do, but I have found games there. The long running one is great, and while we've only had one session of the other it seems like a good start.
If you want reviews of DMs, groups, and/or players I know there are a few sites that are explicitly for matchmaking with professional (paid) DMs that host reviews but I have not had any experience with them. While quite a few folks seem to be strongly against the idea of paying to play D&D, I'm on the fence there. The DM for my longer running game charges $5 a session per player and I'm fine with that; I spend more on my lunch at work and I get a lot more enjoyment out of a three hour game than I do from some medium grade fried chicken and a candy bar. Though $5 is cheaper than most paid games I've seen advertised ($10-20 seems typical). I'm not opposed to DMs getting reimbursed for the time and effort they put in but I'm also a bit iffy as to whether I, personally, want to drop twenty bucks a week on a game. That aspect is entirely subjective to the person, and experiences will also vary with different DMs.
I play in three online D&D games currently. Interestingly, every DM wants to use Roll 20 for the map/token functions. They all say that the DDB map stuff is too wonky. We typically use Discord or Zoom for voice. The only thing everyone agrees on is using DDB for character sheets and it does that much better than any of the other platforms.
I have a group that meets once a week, and we play online using Roll20.
I met most of the group in an MMO some years back *about 15 ish years ago) and a number of them are good friends in real life, but we enjoyed the regular play, and when the MMO shut down, we tried other MMOs, and a few years ago, one of the group suggested our regular game night (Because the various MMOs didn't capture our attention as our beloved original one did) we try DnD (As he was experienced playing, and DMing, and with Roll20) and I ended up bringing a coworker to the group.) so now we have a few years in.
We meet once a week, using Zoom for chat (We had been using Teamspeak but one of the people has a Mac, and a recent update to the OS did nasty things to Teamspeak, and he was TM at that time), and have a blast, and we kept running no problem during the Pandemic. We paused our main game (We had 2 campaigns complete) and are doing Curse of Strahd module, and nearing the end of that.
I would love to try some other groups, but family makes it hard to devote another night to DnD, plus i am still a bit of a DnD Novice, so if I did have the time, I'd hope for a group that is patient with me....also a mature group more about having fun would be nice, obviously the long history of my current group means that we have a compataible set of attitude.
I play online using Roll20 and Discord
We played on Discord for voice and streaming of video of my miniatures and terrain. Everyone used DNDBeyond for characters and rolls.
This last week we have been testing out replacing the stream of my minis to using Talespire. Honestly I think I am falling in love with Talespire even if it js just for streaming maps and me moving pieces. The options for players to interact if they buy it may even make it more amazing. Anyhow, it is just an experiment for now but I am having SOOO much fun making maps.