@snappingteethĀ replied to yourĀ postĀ :Ā We had an incredible RP-heavy D&D session tonight....
out of interest; I assume your D&D group is onlineā¦do you guys voice chat? or use messaging? Im super new to this whole thing and have started playing with some friends irl and was just curious about the diff ways of getting together with a group? Hope this isnāt too nosy??? aaah gurgles
We use a website called Roll20 that allows you to play D&D online, itās basically a virtual tabletop program where you can input all your character info, have the map on the screen, click to roll dice, etc. And it comes with built-in voice and webcam so you can communicate!
The people I play with are also my friends though, so we usually bypass Roll20ā²s cam and mic stuff and use Skype instead.
But yes! Itās not quite the same as playing in-person since youāre limited to what you canĀ āact outā via hand gestures and the like, assuming youāre doing a heavy roleplaying game. But you can still see and hear each other, and Roll20ā²s interface makes it very easy to play together.
EDIT: For what itās worth, Iāve also played with online games that only used voice (no webcams) and simply described everything. And I definitely have seen one group that roleplayed everything out via text! So thereās a lot of ways to go about it -- ours is just the most "typicalā set-up.
