How has the Coronavirus affected your roleplaying games?

CleverNickName · Mar 16, 2020

My oldest gaming group had to cancel our regularly-scheduled D&D game this Friday, because one of our players (and his wife, and his 3-year old son) are sick with a fever and cough. --cue ominous music--

Instead of calling the entire night off, however, we decided to try to set up a virtual tabletop for Roll20 and run a one-shot game of Call of Cthulhu. We figured this would be a good way to iron all the bugs out before we jump back into our 5E D&D game later this month or next, possibly remotely.

der_kluge · Mar 16, 2020

I came into this thread expecting to see a picture of a bunch of people sitting at a table wearing gas masks and rolling dice. But to no avail. Do better, internet!

Tun Kai Poh · Mar 17, 2020

Well the Malaysian government just announced movement restrictions and shutdown of all non-essential businesses for 2 weeks. No school, no entertainment outlets, no going to mosques and churches and temples.

Looks like I'm going to be doing more gaming from Discord. And catching up on my indie RPG reading backlog!

Reynard · Mar 17, 2020

We thought the Discord outage today was going to kill it, but we got a nice test session on fantasy grounds tonight. I run a FG game weekly but the rest of my IRL group are mostly analog, so it was kind of a big step. I hope we keep it up for the necessary few weeks and use it as an alternative when necessary. I prefer face to face gaming but I will take VTT when I can get it, too.

Eyes of Nine · Mar 17, 2020

Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

CleverNickName · Mar 17, 2020

Eyes of Nine said:
Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

The struggle is real. My wife said that if you restart it, you can skip to where you want to go.

LordEntrails · Mar 17, 2020

Eyes of Nine said:
Oh this Roll20 tutorial is killing me. No way to back up; and now I think it's stuck. Where do I go to report bugs?

lol, you're joking right? Oh wait, you don't know....

Yea, there is a forum for it. Roll20

Good luck with your bug report.

LordEntrails · Mar 17, 2020

Morrus said:
We're cancelled for the foreseeable future.

Go online old man, go online!

Don't let the world control you. Control your world!!!

Nytmare · Mar 17, 2020

Maxperson said:
No it hasn't. Nobody in my group has it, so we're still playing as normal.

Dude, take a look at the world around you.

Every country that has been dealing with this for more than a couple of weeks is in complete lock down. States in the US are only now clueing in and shutting down businesses and asking/telling people to stay home. Nobody in your group thinks that they have it, but that's no reason to run the risk of helping this thing spread.