For those doing TTRPG online, what are your reasons?

[CleverNickName]

Other: Speed. Playing over VTT is much faster, especially if you are playing a dice-heavy game like 5E D&D. Resolving multiple rolls per turn, with multiple dice and multiple turns per round, is just so much faster when you can just click a button.

 

[Hex08]

In 2010 I moved away from my regular gaming group, we had been playing together for decades, and we didn't want to stop gaming together. I bought Fantasy Grounds to keep playing and have been doing so since. I have played in other local gaming groups but they were all work based groups and when we were all sent home during the pandemic they either fell apart or I bailed. Gaming online is ok and am happy to do it with my out of town friends but my preference is around a table so one online group is all I care to be involved in. I do play board games with local friends in person.

 

[Wolfpack48]

Other: Speed. Playing over VTT is much faster, especially if you are playing a dice-heavy game like 5E D&D. Resolving multiple rolls per turn, with multiple dice and multiple turns per round, is just so much faster when you can just click a button.

Efficiency and prefer online tools works for that too.

 

[Corinnguard]

Other: Speed. Playing over VTT is much faster, especially if you are playing a dice-heavy game like 5E D&D. Resolving multiple rolls per turn, with multiple dice and multiple turns per round, is just so much faster when you can just click a button.

It's also nice when the VTT does the math for you.

 

[Duke_]

Other: Speed. Playing over VTT is much faster, especially if you are playing a dice-heavy game like 5E D&D. Resolving multiple rolls per turn, with multiple dice and multiple turns per round, is just so much faster when you can just click a button.

Efficiency and prefer online tools works for that too.

Yeah, I checked "efficiency" for this.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah, I checked "efficiency" for this.

Same. I also clicked "Other," to clarify which efficiencies I was referring to. (Speed of play is just one way that VTTs make games more efficient, after all.)

 

[Faolyn]

Multiple reasons: first covid, then the person whose house we used to game at (his parents' house) moved and he isn't set up for gaming groups, then another player had three kids.

 

[Potocki]

My group is made up of family and friends who are all geographically separated. We've been playing online regularly since 2021!

 

[Voadam]

During Covid I stopped going to my in person game. My brother invited me to join his online game with people I knew and had games with before on one off game weekends. I have gamed with them weekly since.

The players are in different states from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

 

[CleverNickName]

So far, here are the Top Five Reasons according to EN World:
31 Votes - Geographic constraints
25 Votes - Convenience
15 Votes - Efficiency
14 Votes - Scheduling constraints
9 Votes - Genuine enjoyment of online play dynamic / Travel constraints (two-way tie)

And the Bottom Five:
0 Votes - Psychological
0 Votes - Difficulty finding in-person GMs
0 Votes - Prefer gaming players to be acquaintances rather than IRL friends
1 Vote - Social
1 Vote - In-person play is too "messy"