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I use Roll20; my players only need the free account to use. Discord (also free) handles the audio and a lot of between-game interactions, both IC and out of character. We don't use video. I'm an old gamer, too (started in 1979). We're playing Aces & Eights rules (d100 system) in a slightly...

I use AI generated maps, pictures (for props), AI-generated poetry (props). If there more options, I would use those as well.

Well, I just post the information on the bulletin board of the VTT. You just tie the stocks they are interested in to RL stocks, and post the difference before each game.

Its fairly common IME. My group tends to make investments with their spare cash. I have, for the last 25+ years, tended towards older gamers, so I have to generate rules for real estate investment, stock markets (where appropriate time period), dental technology, and the like. Currently we're in...

The thing is, there are so many players looking for a good weekly game, that you can carefully vet each one, and ensure you get the right sort.

I do prefer on-line, for various excellent reasons. The first is the sheer volume of good players available on-line. For at least two-thirds of my gaming career (started in 1979), I have have the prospect of campaigns being derailed/ruined by the loss of players without ready replacements...

Nope. When you necro a thread it is customary to stick to the topic.

There's free map-making systems all over the Net, but this thread is about maps, not map-making systems.

Or you could maps for free from a variety of sources, such as pinterest or deviantArt.

IMO/IME, this is an issue of the classic GM job: managing expectations. During the vetting process of prospective players, I lay out the table rules, or standards of social interaction expected of a prospect. Since moving purely on online I've dropped quite a few (BO and wearing pants are no...

I decided I was overthinking this. My solution is that the creator of the gizmo required that to use the gizmo, a permission (small ritual) from a willing descendant of the creator, and only one permission can be given per descendant. This places the party at the mercy of fairly random NPCs...

I was there when it came out. AL/CL was an attempt to pull D&D back from the depths of mediocracy. The effort failed, but RM grew out of it. Wiki isn't really a source, but I suppose it sounds cool. D&D didn't invent TTRPGs; it just the Twinkie of gaming. A rousing commercial success, but not...

Because you would be very wrong. And no, that's not how Rolemaster started. I was around in the start of the hobby. D&D was not the only RPG in the 70s. It went on to be the most successful because it appealed to the lowest common denominator, but it is not the basis of everything. When Arms...

Not at all. A successor to Rolemaster, yes. But the cheesy 'superhero' vibe of D&D, the 'clay man' damage system (no effect until zero HP is reached), the endless river of senseless and unexplained talents and feats, the sheer volume of spells, the 'no death' combat system, all are absent...

Wrong... You're right about 4e, but 5e uses a d100 system skill-based build-point PC development process, and combat system that is based on their Aces & Eights system. While HM 5e does include standard fantasy RPG tropes (class names, certain races etc), the system itself is utterly unlike...

Tribe 8. Besides its horrific villains and eerie setting, it is set entirely in Canada, which doubles down on the horror quotient.

I decided I was over-thinking it. Instead, to use the gizmo you must perform a service for a descendant of the item's creator. Thus opening up the party for the performance of pointless and annoying deeds for unlikeable people.

Most, I believe.

Yeah, I have been gaming for 45+ years, and I haven't been a player more than a handful of times. I get bored or annoyed quickly.

Yeah, its iffy from a philosophy viewpoint, but I'm counting on the prolonged whining about not being able to earn money on those side quests to drown that out. My players extract gold dental work in every campaign that has gold dental work. So far, I've got feed the hungry, clothe the needy...