So I have some questions on how playing as a remote player will work. My friend is a part of an in person group that I will be joining remotely. The dungeon master of the game and I are trying to figure out the easiest way for him and I to keep track of my moves. I have my character I used created through this site but all the in person group is running it off paper print outs. Would there be an easy way for him to track what I am doing through online. Is there a way through discord to keep track? Any advice would be great thanks
The group I play with has two sets of new parents, when either set is unable to attend in person, we will set them up with a webcam (Zoom, Facebook, Discord) that overlooks the map and table. They talk and interact as normal. Since the map can be difficult for them to see, they describe what they would like to achieve, and the DM will describe the best way to do so and move their physical token accordingly. We can see them though the screen of a connected tablet or laptop.
If your group uses a VTT, they could be using physical miniatures, while you could use a digital token.
Both DNDBeyond and Discord can be used to track dice rolls, but really, it's better to just trust people to self report when possible. Sometimes a table may choose to record all dice, simply to avoid the potential drama that can come from someone fudging number.
Personally, I use a set of three cameras all logged into Zoom when doing this kind of thing - one camera over the map, one phone or laptop at one end of the table where most of the players can be seen, and the DM on their laptop is they can see the remote player‘a face and the remote player can see the DM’s expressions and gesticulations.
Discord also works and is free (Zoom times out in the free version), but I find the audio system in discord is inferior and that can cause some problems.
So, yeah; for moving their token they can just give directions like “four squares north, then one square east” or just describe their generally desired path and/end position. And there’s plenty of dice rolling applications that can share results if the group doesn’t want to do honor system
Yeah to my understanding of this Dungeon master he is going to be annal about tracking. So being nice and helping him out to figure out the best way possible to do this. Since not everyone uses this site. Pretty sure I'm the only one on it
We do an in-person/remote game once a year and MacGyver up the following rig:
the camera is a Logitech brio positioned directly above the map with minis.
The camera is taped to a paint roller extension pole which is fixed to a flood light stand (don’t need the light, just the stand). This allows the camera to be positioned without impacting the in-person players. A couple of sand bags ensures it won’t fall - its now like a large microphone boom arm
camera to laptop running free version of Zoom
Laptop to Bluetooth JBL flip speaker
DnDbeyond for character sheets with our remote player rolling on beyond and in-person rolling real dice
a long pointer for the DM, top half of a pool cue with some fluro colour tape on the tip. Remote player “move *character mini* 3 squares north, 1 east, or diagonally east 4 squares” DM using pointer, “this square?” Etc
discord chat for pics & stupid chat, also the “hey you missed restarting zoom”
45 min play time then just keep respawning the same zoom meeting
we comfortably play 10+ hours right through with this, it’s actually good having the quick break every 45mins
Hello,
So I have some questions on how playing as a remote player will work. My friend is a part of an in person group that I will be joining remotely. The dungeon master of the game and I are trying to figure out the easiest way for him and I to keep track of my moves. I have my character I used created through this site but all the in person group is running it off paper print outs. Would there be an easy way for him to track what I am doing through online. Is there a way through discord to keep track? Any advice would be great thanks
Are going to have a video feed of some kind, or is this going to be more of a voice/text only deal?
Easiest way seems Tablet+Discord App. at the table they're playing, you can use any device on your side.
The group I play with has two sets of new parents, when either set is unable to attend in person, we will set them up with a webcam (Zoom, Facebook, Discord) that overlooks the map and table. They talk and interact as normal. Since the map can be difficult for them to see, they describe what they would like to achieve, and the DM will describe the best way to do so and move their physical token accordingly. We can see them though the screen of a connected tablet or laptop.
If your group uses a VTT, they could be using physical miniatures, while you could use a digital token.
Both DNDBeyond and Discord can be used to track dice rolls, but really, it's better to just trust people to self report when possible. Sometimes a table may choose to record all dice, simply to avoid the potential drama that can come from someone fudging number.
There will be video chat, probably using discord or zoom
Personally, I use a set of three cameras all logged into Zoom when doing this kind of thing - one camera over the map, one phone or laptop at one end of the table where most of the players can be seen, and the DM on their laptop is they can see the remote player‘a face and the remote player can see the DM’s expressions and gesticulations.
Discord also works and is free (Zoom times out in the free version), but I find the audio system in discord is inferior and that can cause some problems.
So, yeah; for moving their token they can just give directions like “four squares north, then one square east” or just describe their generally desired path and/end position. And there’s plenty of dice rolling applications that can share results if the group doesn’t want to do honor system
Yeah to my understanding of this Dungeon master he is going to be annal about tracking. So being nice and helping him out to figure out the best way possible to do this. Since not everyone uses this site. Pretty sure I'm the only one on it
^ This.
Essentially, the easiest way probably.
Your DM creates (if they don't already have it) a Discord account for themselves.
Then create a second Discord account for the Tablet device.
When the game starts - both join Discord. Tablet account mutes themselves on Discord.
Tablet shares screen to show map or whatever.
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Hmm; something like Discord or Roll20 is good for tracking rolls; there’s even a plug-in so you can use your DDB character sheet with them
We do an in-person/remote game once a year and MacGyver up the following rig:
the camera is a Logitech brio positioned directly above the map with minis.
The camera is taped to a paint roller extension pole which is fixed to a flood light stand (don’t need the light, just the stand). This allows the camera to be positioned without impacting the in-person players. A couple of sand bags ensures it won’t fall - its now like a large microphone boom arm
camera to laptop running free version of Zoom
Laptop to Bluetooth JBL flip speaker
DnDbeyond for character sheets with our remote player rolling on beyond and in-person rolling real dice
a long pointer for the DM, top half of a pool cue with some fluro colour tape on the tip. Remote player “move *character mini* 3 squares north, 1 east, or diagonally east 4 squares” DM using pointer, “this square?” Etc
discord chat for pics & stupid chat, also the “hey you missed restarting zoom”
45 min play time then just keep respawning the same zoom meeting
we comfortably play 10+ hours right through with this, it’s actually good having the quick break every 45mins