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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 8134661" data-attributes="member: 15882">In a different discussion, [USER=6921763]@DM Dave1[/USER] and myself were discussing some frustrations with playing D&D online.  We discussed a few tips and thought it might be worth its own Thread:I've found the most frustrating part of online gaming is using a combat grid while exploring a dungeon - like from a published adventure, for example.  People are moving their tokens one square at a time, pinging squares and asking to search whatever, or they are moving their tokens all over the board and I have to stop people and try to narrate things.  It's worse when the party splits up.To solve this, I told people to stop moving their tokens like it's a video game.  Narrate to me where your character goes, what they are doing and how they do it.  I then narrate the result of this action, then I or the player moves the token to the place they've indicated.  This can be done as a group.It also helps to have roles:  someone declares they are searching for traps, someone else is looking for secret doors, someone else is keeping an eye out for danger.  Then I use people's passive skills based on what they're doing.  It makes it smoother to narrate and, I feel, it improves the flow.What are your hints, tips or tricks?</blockquote>