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For me, when looking at games to sign up for at a convention, I've always understood OSR to be shorthand for a retroclone that plays like OD&D but with the rules cleaned up and modernized a bit. In my experience that has mostly been the case. The one exception is Dungeon Crawl Classics, which I...

Man, you can't post such a great example at the beginning of a thread, you intimidate the rest of us from posting! :-) Since I'm running a published game that has all the content entered and cross-linked in Foundry, most of my notes are to remind me of what happened in the last session and any...

I'll be there again this year. Too early to start a thread?

I bounced off of Mage the Ascension. A couple players in my main group really liked the system and convinced me to try running it. I like the concept of how magic works, but I found the rules to be very esoteric, poorly presented and difficult pickup. My main reason for not sticking with it was...

I haven't played the miniature game since the 80s. It is a time intensive and expensive hobby, which doesn't fit into my current lifestyle and I would much rather play a TTRPG than a miniature war game these days. But I'm running the 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. I love the game...

Took me a moment to realize that there are two dogs in that picture. At first, I was thinking "that doesn't look comfortable" or "did the poor pup just jump up and face plant?"

That's me. I find my favorite live plays are using crunchier rule systems. Overly simple and dramatic rules systems end up feeling like poor radio dramas than listing to a game being played.

I like Critical Role and listened to most of their first campaign (Vox Machina) but the 4 hour sessions are a bit much. I know I can just pause and pick up, but psychologically, I tend to stick with live plays that have one hour or even half-hour episode. It just fits into my habits better. If...

What VTT are you using? Does it allow you to pause the game to prevent movement? For example, in Foundry you just hit the space bar and it pauses the game, preventing tokens from being moved.

Just put on this mask and start taking notes in a notebook...

I love rolling physical dice, but even more, I love everyone being able to see the role. Not to avoid cheating, I'm not worried about that with my group. It is just more participatory. In Foundry I use the Dice So Nice module which has 3D dice clacking across the play area when you roll. I miss...

When I was running Rappan Athuk, a mega dungeon with over 100 maps and some of those maps were huge, this was pretty common. It can work very well in some situations. Foundry allows the GM to pause the game and prevent movement by hitting the space bar, so if someone runs into an encounter...

Yeah, it helps to have good bandwidth and high-quality headsets, which not everyone can afford. We use Discord and push-to-talk really helps. It is much easier and more natural than trying to constantly click the mute button on and off during the game. But even push to talk only gets you so far...

Yeah, something anyone who has participated in online meetings can attest to. For TTRPGs I find this more of an issue with one-shots with strangers or at the beginning of a new campaign with new people. I find, however, that after a few sessions most groups fall into natural patterns and it...

That came from personal experience. But I was the guilty party. I wasn't cheating, just overly enthusiastic. I was playing in an on-line convention game set in the Mouth of Doom (extra area in later editions of Rappan Athuk). The DM was using Fantasy Grounds with manual fog of war. Out of combat...

I think for most is that they just find it more social. The game is about hanging out with people as it is immersion. I kinda find having cameras on distracting. When I'm playing in online games with cameras on it is usually in a separate program than the VTT, usually discord, and I never look...

Thanks, I'll have to check out Eleven Foot Pole.

I tried to stick to things that are more VTT specific, though I'm sure I'm being inconsistent here. I suppose this applies to more than telling people how to play their character. Some people can be overly "helpful" with telling people how to use the software. As a long time DM and Foundry...