In December, a friend of mine will be returning home and the first thing he wants to do is DM Dungeons & Dragons with our online friends. I have quite a few questions on how we could suss out the best possible layout/organization/set-up/presentation.
My first question would be, since we're probably not going to have any one chatroom show up on the stream layout, would that make it a good idea to multi-cast to Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, etc. all together, or is it wiser to stick to a single platform?
Secondly, are there any applications (aside from DnD Beyond) that are recommended for organizing and maintaining all character, campaign, and adventure information? As in, I'm aware of Roll20.net and the ability to draw up maps, and have digital dice to roll, but my friend also brought up an app called Reroll, but I just don't want to be overwhelmed with a lot of things to download and maintain. The less intensive, the better; the less costly, much better.
Third, are music and facecams that big of a deal in the presentation? It might be one thing if we were all sitting around a single table, but we're probably going to be in a Discord voice channel. I feel like there would be a possibility of confusion throughout the night if, with no facecams, we had no visual cue of who was ready to speak next, and then that leads to talking over each other accidentally, and then music on top of that - would setting an atmosphere and mood with music be too much at that point? As for facecams, I'm all about using my camera, I hope to be very expressive and pantomiming my actions in my seat, and I wonder, even if our facecams are not shown on screen, whether or not that would be helpful to the other players in our personal videochat. My hope is that if I get really into the roleplaying, it might open them up to being comfortable getting into it too in the future. Would five or six facecams on one stream scene be far too busy, or would viewers get something out of that, too?
That's all I have for now as I really ought to be heading to sleep, so I might have more questions and seeking advice as we hope to prepare for and debut our own campaign online. Thanks for any help!
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In December, a friend of mine will be returning home and the first thing he wants to do is DM Dungeons & Dragons with our online friends. I have quite a few questions on how we could suss out the best possible layout/organization/set-up/presentation.
My first question would be, since we're probably not going to have any one chatroom show up on the stream layout, would that make it a good idea to multi-cast to Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, etc. all together, or is it wiser to stick to a single platform?
Secondly, are there any applications (aside from DnD Beyond) that are recommended for organizing and maintaining all character, campaign, and adventure information? As in, I'm aware of Roll20.net and the ability to draw up maps, and have digital dice to roll, but my friend also brought up an app called Reroll, but I just don't want to be overwhelmed with a lot of things to download and maintain. The less intensive, the better; the less costly, much better.
Third, are music and facecams that big of a deal in the presentation? It might be one thing if we were all sitting around a single table, but we're probably going to be in a Discord voice channel. I feel like there would be a possibility of confusion throughout the night if, with no facecams, we had no visual cue of who was ready to speak next, and then that leads to talking over each other accidentally, and then music on top of that - would setting an atmosphere and mood with music be too much at that point? As for facecams, I'm all about using my camera, I hope to be very expressive and pantomiming my actions in my seat, and I wonder, even if our facecams are not shown on screen, whether or not that would be helpful to the other players in our personal videochat. My hope is that if I get really into the roleplaying, it might open them up to being comfortable getting into it too in the future. Would five or six facecams on one stream scene be far too busy, or would viewers get something out of that, too?
That's all I have for now as I really ought to be heading to sleep, so I might have more questions and seeking advice as we hope to prepare for and debut our own campaign online. Thanks for any help!
My name is Amy. My hobbies include D&D, streaming videogames, and huffing cat bellies. Ask me about huffing cat bellies.