I've played D&D in person with dice rolls and paper characters before as well as other RPGs. Been wanting to get back into D&D but it seems everyone is playing online these days. How does this work? I assume you use some voice chat like discord but what about dice rolls and video options?
Any information and help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
There are many, many ways to do this. You can just do it via discord and voice and let people roll their own dice and trust them, and do theater of the mind. You can use Zoom and a Virtual Table-top like Roll 20 or Fantasy Grounds. You can use some mix-and-match combo. It really depends on what YOU want to do, and what YOUR players prefer.
My group uses Foundry VTT as our table-top, World Anvil for storing the lore of the world and the players' journals of their adventures, and Google Meet or Zoom for face-to-face communications and document sharing. But that's far from the only way to do it.
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Discord is a very common choice for both voice and video and organising games, since a group can set up their own personal Discord server for all of that.
A lot of groups use virtual table top programs like Roll 20 or Foundry or other VTTs to host games, character sheets, roll dice and visualise the board, etc. They also include modules or rulebooks to help create characters and organise the games. You can combine Roll 20 and D&D Beyond with Beyond 20 so that D&D Beyond manages character sheets, etc.
My group uses Tabletop Simulator for boards and rolling dice (it isn't designed for this purpose, but this is a good option for our group as we all have it), and some of us track character sheets using D&D Beyond or through PDF sheets. Our DM then rolls their physical dice to help hide their checks. It works for us since we're a close friend group, so our DM didn't require any specific requirements in terms of setting up our stuff.
There's a lot of different options out there, and any group you would find online would have their own methods of doing these things and may have different requirements for what they require from players.
I've played D&D in person with dice rolls and paper characters before as well as other RPGs. Been wanting to get back into D&D but it seems everyone is playing online these days. How does this work? I assume you use some voice chat like discord but what about dice rolls and video options?
Any information and help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
There are many, many ways to do this. You can just do it via discord and voice and let people roll their own dice and trust them, and do theater of the mind. You can use Zoom and a Virtual Table-top like Roll 20 or Fantasy Grounds. You can use some mix-and-match combo. It really depends on what YOU want to do, and what YOUR players prefer.
My group uses Foundry VTT as our table-top, World Anvil for storing the lore of the world and the players' journals of their adventures, and Google Meet or Zoom for face-to-face communications and document sharing. But that's far from the only way to do it.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
thanks for the info. appreciate it
Discord is a very common choice for both voice and video and organising games, since a group can set up their own personal Discord server for all of that.
A lot of groups use virtual table top programs like Roll 20 or Foundry or other VTTs to host games, character sheets, roll dice and visualise the board, etc. They also include modules or rulebooks to help create characters and organise the games. You can combine Roll 20 and D&D Beyond with Beyond 20 so that D&D Beyond manages character sheets, etc.
My group uses Tabletop Simulator for boards and rolling dice (it isn't designed for this purpose, but this is a good option for our group as we all have it), and some of us track character sheets using D&D Beyond or through PDF sheets. Our DM then rolls their physical dice to help hide their checks. It works for us since we're a close friend group, so our DM didn't require any specific requirements in terms of setting up our stuff.
There's a lot of different options out there, and any group you would find online would have their own methods of doing these things and may have different requirements for what they require from players.
Thank you