I have been asked to DM a group of players and often times there are 3 players at the table and one or two players online.
i have tried to do a webcam over the maps and do a zoom/discord chat but im wondering if you smart people have a better way. Unfortunately, a lot of the players do not use ddb.
I use a blue-tooth conference room speaker/mic via Discord (Anker makes some good ones that won't break the bank), then have 2 webcams set up streaming video to discord (one on a short tripod that we move to whatever portion of the map is being used, and the other to view the people (group shot) at the table. Our table is a flat screen TV embedded in the table, so technically we could also run a VTT and just place miniatures atop the VTT map tokens for those at the table, and remote players could use the tokens (I know a DM about to do just that).
Honestly, the hardest part is getting players to only speak one at a time. If two or more players speak at the same time, the poor smuck playing remotely can't hear what's being said.
If you use a virtual tabletop, the remote people can see the map, and just have a player at the table view it on a laptop with hdmi output to a television, then everyone can easily see the maps and any webcams can be used to see player faces. Discord is still the best way to handle comms currently.
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I have been asked to DM a group of players and often times there are 3 players at the table and one or two players online.
i have tried to do a webcam over the maps and do a zoom/discord chat but im wondering if you smart people have a better way. Unfortunately, a lot of the players do not use ddb.
I use a blue-tooth conference room speaker/mic via Discord (Anker makes some good ones that won't break the bank), then have 2 webcams set up streaming video to discord (one on a short tripod that we move to whatever portion of the map is being used, and the other to view the people (group shot) at the table. Our table is a flat screen TV embedded in the table, so technically we could also run a VTT and just place miniatures atop the VTT map tokens for those at the table, and remote players could use the tokens (I know a DM about to do just that).
Honestly, the hardest part is getting players to only speak one at a time. If two or more players speak at the same time, the poor smuck playing remotely can't hear what's being said.
Playing D&D since 1982
Have played every version of the game since Basic (Red Box Set), except that abomination sometimes called 4e.
If you use a virtual tabletop, the remote people can see the map, and just have a player at the table view it on a laptop with hdmi output to a television, then everyone can easily see the maps and any webcams can be used to see player faces. Discord is still the best way to handle comms currently.