I own the main books in the physical world but I'd like to give playing online a shot with some resources easily available.
None of us have played 5e before.
I was wondering if I bought this little intro adventure would the standard rules would be enough to play using something like Discord and google? Does anyone recommend any other ways to start? I know that Roll 20 and Fantasy Grounds would probably be easier once I put in the 4 hours to figure it out but I don't really want to invest there since the general buzz is that DND Beyond will be able to do everything within the next year.
I haven't played 5e. I've played off and on for decades but I haven't played very regularly since second edition although I played 3.5 a little.
Most of my friends who I played second ed with back in the day live on the other side of the country. I look through the stuff all the time but with three small kids and a full-time job with pretty poor work/life balance, I don't get to play much. I've slowly bought the three core books for 5e and read through them a little at a time. I love the DND beyond character builder, though but I think that I might be able to convince everyone to try Roll 20 since it's browser-based and everyone uses discord, anyways.
Foundry, Fantasy Grounds and roll20 each have the benefits and downsides. I went with roll20 for a few reasons:
Free tier means that I didn't have to commit to putting money down to see if it met my needs
Browser based meant it runs on basically anything, which is good because my group is spread over windows and mac of varying degrees of performance (everything works well)
The learning curve is the least steep (which is not to say it isn't still steep)
I've been using roll20 for almost 4 years now, 1.5 free, 1 plus and the rest pro.
I own the main books in the physical world but I'd like to give playing online a shot with some resources easily available.
None of us have played 5e before.
I was wondering if I bought this little intro adventure would the standard rules would be enough to play using something like Discord and google? Does anyone recommend any other ways to start? I know that Roll 20 and Fantasy Grounds would probably be easier once I put in the 4 hours to figure it out but I don't really want to invest there since the general buzz is that DND Beyond will be able to do everything within the next year.
You never played before but you hear buzz DDB will have a vtt up and running soon? :-)
I haven't played 5e. I've played off and on for decades but I haven't played very regularly since second edition although I played 3.5 a little.
Most of my friends who I played second ed with back in the day live on the other side of the country. I look through the stuff all the time but with three small kids and a full-time job with pretty poor work/life balance, I don't get to play much. I've slowly bought the three core books for 5e and read through them a little at a time. I love the DND beyond character builder, though but I think that I might be able to convince everyone to try Roll 20 since it's browser-based and everyone uses discord, anyways.
Most people seem to like foundry the best, assuming you can figure out your router and host it on your PC.
Foundry, Fantasy Grounds and roll20 each have the benefits and downsides. I went with roll20 for a few reasons:
I've been using roll20 for almost 4 years now, 1.5 free, 1 plus and the rest pro.
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I think I'm gonna try it there, first if I can get everyone on board.
I think it will be best that they don't have to download everything and everyone is already on Discord.
It looks like Roll20 has a free adventure that I can play around with so I can see what it's like if I bought something.
Thanks for the input everyone.