How do you tabletop these days?

[Micah Sweet]

In addition to what @Micah Sweet is saying: we also use Discord video streaming for an overhead camera that our Savage Worlds GM is using to display cards and dice. It works better (=higher resolution and frame rate) if you pay, though (Discord has a subscription model called Nitro).

We have done this on occasion as well.

 

[The Soloist]

The group started during covid and we used Discord. We talked about playing in person but scheduling and travel times are an obstacle. We play theater of the mind.

 

[Wolfpack48]

In addition to what @Micah Sweet is saying: we also use Discord video streaming for an overhead camera that our Savage Worlds GM is using to display cards and dice. It works better (=higher resolution and frame rate) if you pay, though (Discord has a subscription model called Nitro).

Yeah, I would say for all intents and purposes, Discord is being used as a VTT even though it's not specifically branded as one. I guess we could be more generic and say 'online' so we can include Zoom as well.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yes. We speak on video chat in my game.

Do I assume you use group messaging, rather than a personal channel (what I and the other people who GM locally use) or was my information in error?

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah, I would say for all intents and purposes, Discord is being used as a VTT even though it's not specifically branded as one. I guess we could be more generic and say 'online' so we can include Zoom as well.

It kind of depends what you're using the term to mind. When I hear VTT (which, after all, is short for "virtual tabletop") I expect the program to, at the least, support maps and tokens. Even with video functioning, faking it that way is not really the same thing.

Which, to be clear, is probably entirely moot for people who play TotM anyway, but I'd find it pretty clumsy for any game where I was using any kind of battleboard.

 

[Kannik]

Mostly online (either with or without an explicit VTT, depending on what we're playing), as one of the players in my weekly group moved out of the area. My other monthly group we get together to play, albeit with some people still remoting in.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Do I assume you use group messaging, rather than a personal channel (what I and the other people who GM locally use) or was my information in error?

We have a group on which we speak via video chat.

 

[Faolyn]

Ah! Is there any video/zoom component at all on Discord?

Yep! It sometimes goes out but mostly it's OK.

 

[Thomas Shey]

We have a group on which we speak via video chat.

That didn't entirely answer it.

You can make personal Discords (I have one) which behave otherwise just like the rest of the Discords--you can do sub-boards and so on if you're really of a mood, you can have text channels and sound channels, and so on.

And then there's the private messaging function, which I gather can be extended to multiple users (I've never done so, but that's neither here nor there).

Are you talking about the first or second? The information I had seemed to say you could do it with the second but not the first, and I don't want to tell people that if it's not true (but I also can't see any obvious way to do it on a basic Discord channel).

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yep! It sometimes goes out but mostly it's OK.

If you're talking about a normal Discord channel, how do you do it? Its not obvious, unlike sound.