JesseQ

I left a message on r/lfg.

Back at you. ;)

I still have almost 3 hours to go. And I'll be asleep by then so it won't matter. Since the end of the sixties the decades seem less important

I want to play Wayne and Wax. Riftworld Magic in a gun totin steampunk era. And I never thought I would want guns in DnD.

I occasionally get the urge to play in a western game, to be honest, though I'd likely lean in the direction of playing Cat Balou which would probably upset the GM. :D

Unless we can get a Nat King Cole impersonator to GM, I'll have to warm up my singing voice.

Car Balou in Mistworld.

Sorry about the Rift above. Getting my Sanderson magic systems confused.

I'll give Web Whiteboard another shot. Something about it didn't grab me, but I was kinda doing speed-runs on the various shared-workspace services to see what I could get away with, so it's easy to think I missed something.

Many of the elements of Miro turned out to be more intuitive than I expected, including sharing documents, and making notes. Mostly drag-and-drop from the desktop, or just start typing over an element.

Miro is definitely more powerful, with more features, and would probably be preferred for a campaign or a private game. My criteria was easy to use and no login required. Web Whiteboard does that.

Now I definitely haven't given Miro a fair shot. I got to the invite users by email and passed for what I want. There may even be a way to share with a link.

You can share with a link but it takes you to a login screen, not a whiteboard. So gamers have to be willing to make an account to see the whiteboard. (to the best of my knowledge)

Also if you are going to run a campaign that outlasts the Web Whiteboard 21 days it will cost money if you need to save the whiteboard from session to session. I believe Miro is not time limited in it's free version so that might also be a big factor. (to the best of my knowledge)

Yeah, the only notable limitation for the free version of Miro is three boards per account. Some features are turned off, but they're mostly aimed at things like productivity and workflow control.

The 21-day cap is much more problematic, as I don't run games rapidly (outside of one-shots).

Also if you're running campaigns you probably already have the emails of the players. In the Gamer+ If You Play You Win one offs I want anyone who's at Tenkars to be able to pick a pregen and be in the game. We are going to rotate DMs. We're working on the first one and my son Kier will DM that. I figure schedule 3 hrs. for a one off. Would you be interested in running one of these in the future?

What a concept! People playing DnD rolling their own dice.

Miro - https://miro.com/ The free tier does seem to have gaming needs covered.

https://www.watch2gether.com/ This is cool. I'm setting up a shared video room for Gamer+.

yeah, Miro lets me scrawl notes and leave them where everyone can see them, which is much more important to me than a battlemap with fog-of-war that calculates flanking bonuses or whatever.

One suave thing that I figured out is leaving a little radio on the Miro desktop, so the players can click it and listen to the music that I've already got playing on my YouTube playlist via Watch2Gether - and control their own volume and such, unlike some of the Discord music-bots.

The only real limitation (that I've found) on the unpaid tier for Miro is capping at three boards. If you need more that that, I envy you, but you could probably get the other players to create boards.

Optimally you would have one board so everyone would be watching the same board. I haven't used Miro much and never for gaming so I may be missing something. Watch2Gether has a webcam option so you could display a map with that and use Miro for writing stuff.

Oh, yeah. The only real reason I could see needing more than one board is if you're running more than one game - so if you need more than three? I envy your problems.

I also think a way to distribute documents like pre-gens or monster stats would be good. Miro probably has that covered.

If you're interested in trying this I'm wanting to setup up some actual play on Gamer+.

yeah, you should be able to drag-and-drop from your desktop to the whiteboard.

There's a few nuanced things like drawing an area for each player to reference (since you can't put it in front of them), as well as "stacking" elements to handle as a single unit.

Cool

Discord has a dice bot called Dice Maiden.

oh, there are a handful of dice bots - but they have a tendency of not really getting out of the way of the game - at least the way I want it to run.

It may be a bit system specific, but I like to have a bit of back-and-forth conversation, while dice are being drawn and replaced, until it's time to roll everything.

Most online rollers use a standardized format of /r 2d6+1. Simple, intuitive. But it slows me down, gets in the way just enough that I'd really rather just roll physical dice.

I'd like to see something where I can basically click a die in the UI to add it to my hand before casting them collectively. In multiple colors, with multiple die types.... Yeah, might be picky about it, but real physical dice do the job. Rolegate actually gets the closest to what I want, but they're not really set up for real-time play.

I really do like the tactile element of rolling dice myself.

I am writing a blog post followup to this post. I will post the link when I'm done.

https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/post/39

I have some playlists on archive.org but I mostly listen on my computer because I'm home all the time.

Yeah, I do that while I'm working on game ideas (which really means drinking heavily and staring at a blank screen), but sometimes I want to bring it to the game table with me, or share it as part of a pitch.

Gamers need some love too.

It's been a while since I've thought of myself as such; when someone's willing to pay me for it, I'm a radio broadcaster.

I play all the time and I do radio too. I have Something Blue on KASU, 91.9 FM and kasu.org. Saturdays at 10:00 PM Central.