How has the Coronavirus affected your roleplaying games?

[CleverNickName]

My oldest gaming group had to cancel our regularly-scheduled D&D game this Friday, because one of our players (and his wife, and his 3-year old son) are sick with a fever and cough. --cue ominous music--

Instead of calling the entire night off, however, we decided to try to set up a virtual tabletop for Roll20 and run a one-shot game of Call of Cthulhu. We figured this would be a good way to iron all the bugs out before we jump back into our 5E D&D game later this month or next, possibly remotely.

 

[der_kluge]

I came into this thread expecting to see a picture of a bunch of people sitting at a table wearing gas masks and rolling dice. But to no avail. Do better, internet!

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Well the Malaysian government just announced movement restrictions and shutdown of all non-essential businesses for 2 weeks. No school, no entertainment outlets, no going to mosques and churches and temples.

Looks like I'm going to be doing more gaming from Discord. And catching up on my indie RPG reading backlog!

 

[Reynard]

We thought the Discord outage today was going to kill it, but we got a nice test session on fantasy grounds tonight. I run a FG game weekly but the rest of my IRL group are mostly analog, so it was kind of a big step. I hope we keep it up for the necessary few weeks and use it as an alternative when necessary. I prefer face to face gaming but I will take VTT when I can get it, too.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

 

[CleverNickName]

Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

The struggle is real. My wife said that if you restart it, you can skip to where you want to go.

 

[LordEntrails]

Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

lol, you're joking right? Oh wait, you don't know....

Yea, there is a forum for it. Roll20

Good luck with your bug report.

 

[LordEntrails]

We're cancelled for the foreseeable future.

Go online old man, go online!

Don't let the world control you. Control your world!!!

 

[Nytmare]

No it hasn't. Nobody in my group has it, so we're still playing as normal.

Dude, take a look at the world around you.

Every country that has been dealing with this for more than a couple of weeks is in complete lock down. States in the US are only now clueing in and shutting down businesses and asking/telling people to stay home. Nobody in your group thinks that they have it, but that's no reason to run the risk of helping this thing spread.

 

[Morrus]

No it hasn't. Nobody in my group has it, so we're still playing as normal.

You've all been tested?