My experience has been pretty good honestly, but the seed for this Fumble was planted by converting our weekly table game to an online meetup during social distancing. I could see a GM losing their crap if the group couldn't get the hang of mute buttons :)
My weekly group moved to Google Hangouts about three weeks ago after pausing for month. Works pretty well. I've started using Roll20 for the tactical map. Not with everyone on Roll20, just using Google Hangouts and me screen sharing the Roll20 window when needed.
Cleveland, OH area BM (Barrow Master) Robert Sumner recently converted his weekly tabletop Barrows & Bearowls game to an online format due to the social complications of the current global pandemic. It's a change hundreds if not thousands of gaming groups are making to keep their games going...
Thanks, if we get to the point of a definite game moving forward I'll post there.
For now if anyone has interest in seeing something like this happen, just make a comment or react to the initial post, etc.
Any interest in online WOIN games out there? Either Roll 20 or Fantasy Grounds or Discord or etc?
Starting this thread on behalf of someone asking in Morrus's Discord channel.
It's interesting that in the latest Morrus podcast they're talking about Whispers in the Dark, which is a 5E implementation of essentially Call of Cthulhu.
In WitD, a short rest is a night and a long rest is a week. I have never thought of changing that up before but it works.
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