If anyone has any suggestions on how to set up play with players who are remote, that would be great! Occasionally some of my players go out of town or are unable to meet with the group, but they hate to miss a session. I have tried skype but I am hoping there is something better or more robust. Thanks!
I recently played online on Roll20 using Discord App instead of Skype. In my limited experience discord seem less laggy and more stable than Skype even with people in US and Australia. When I start my next campaign I will use that as a backup option.
I currently have two ongoing online campaigns, one in which I am DM and one as player.
For the DM one we use Skype, as we all know each other IRL and like to see our faces, while for the one I am a player we use Discord, but for both we use DDB for characters and reference.
Discord is vastly superior as a voice chat, as it alone allows to selectively increase the volume of single participants in the call should any be at low volume. It would also have a video-chat feature, but it's still a bit meh, at least last time I tried it.
Skype is definitely better as a video-chat, but the latest version (the infamous W10 integrated one) is a freaking nightmare at times, with videos getting weirdly zoomed and cut-off. In general it works well enough, albeit having it's limitations.
I have been using Roll20 for a little more than a year, and I have to say that while it is indeed a powerful and useful tool, for our needs it take away a bit of the pure immersion we prefer, as the visual stimuli and combat maps tend to make players focus more on the "videogame" feel it has, resulting inpotentially being more distractive than useful (in edge cases). It is by no means a bad platform, far from it, but it all depends on the group and what you want the focus to be on.
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If anyone has any suggestions on how to set up play with players who are remote, that would be great! Occasionally some of my players go out of town or are unable to meet with the group, but they hate to miss a session. I have tried skype but I am hoping there is something better or more robust. Thanks!
I recently played online on Roll20 using Discord App instead of Skype. In my limited experience discord seem less laggy and more stable than Skype even with people in US and Australia. When I start my next campaign I will use that as a backup option.
I currently have two ongoing online campaigns, one in which I am DM and one as player.
For the DM one we use Skype, as we all know each other IRL and like to see our faces, while for the one I am a player we use Discord, but for both we use DDB for characters and reference.
Discord is vastly superior as a voice chat, as it alone allows to selectively increase the volume of single participants in the call should any be at low volume. It would also have a video-chat feature, but it's still a bit meh, at least last time I tried it.
Skype is definitely better as a video-chat, but the latest version (the infamous W10 integrated one) is a freaking nightmare at times, with videos getting weirdly zoomed and cut-off. In general it works well enough, albeit having it's limitations.
I have been using Roll20 for a little more than a year, and I have to say that while it is indeed a powerful and useful tool, for our needs it take away a bit of the pure immersion we prefer, as the visual stimuli and combat maps tend to make players focus more on the "videogame" feel it has, resulting inpotentially being more distractive than useful (in edge cases). It is by no means a bad platform, far from it, but it all depends on the group and what you want the focus to be on.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games