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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9518653" data-attributes="member: 6779310">There are MANY groups online not playing D&D. If you're willing to learn a new system or two, there are MANY groups online which would welcome an extra.I've never used video in my online play, save for the occasional off-topic joke. (Last night, in the random static forum of my Discord, one of them posted a meme about barbecue sauce on tuna... happened to be the brand I use on chicken, steak, and/or rice... so I turned my camera on just long enough for them to see it... It was the fastest way to move on.)If you do get a webcam, it doesn't need to be all that hot... as badwidth limitations get in the way if everyone's trying to send 4K...There are many kinds of headphones/earphones, and many now include a mic.If you don't like the isolation of over the ear or in-the-ear, you might try bone conduction earphones. The cheap ones are $50... but they sound good and don't block outside sound. (But they can overwhelm outside sounds.)If not using headphones, you're best to use push-to-talk mode. Voice activation need to be carefully considered by your hardware situation. I've a player who has a lot of echo in his living room; he needs to be on headset or on push to talk, otherwise the audio echoes and makes it hard to understand anyone else.I wouldn't know, as I don't do video chat for games.I use audio only, plus a free VTT that requires a google drive (and hence a google account) for each player.I've used Skype, and I currently use Discord; I've found Discord has rather robust connections, and handles groups up to 7 total connected just fine. (Skype was breaking for me at 5.)as Discord has improved, Skype has gotten less and less useful.Do note that several VTTs don't include videoconference as an option; the virtual tabletop is the vid feed.Most include die rollers, even the free one I use (GTove)... some have them be physics based, others have them be simply a PRNG result presented on a virtual die, and some even don't bother with making it look like a die.My sunday night group is using my own die roller for Discord...My setup:I run the die roller and my VTT login on the nucbox PC hanging under my TV... I also have a Discord login on it.I run voice either via my phone (it's got a great mic and good speaker) or my laptop (Good mic, great speakers).My notes are on my laptop; the rules may be on my e-reader and/or my laptop, and/or physical books beside me. If I need to show a rules-section, I use the screenshare option in discord. If I need to share a map, I may screen-share it, share it via GTove, or just drop it in a Google Drive folder.I can, and have, run it all off a laptop before - 2018 I was using a 2012 MacBook air, Discord, and only Theater of the Mind mode, with occasional shared files via google, and Google Sheets or Google Docs for zone maps, and a die-roller (I think it was mine, if not, it was D1-C3). This was how one of my groups played the playtest of the Dune Starter Set... (The other group was FTF, and got into the second round playtest. As an aside: Modiphius was a wonderful company to playtest for - they took the efforts to actually understand the feedback, and noted and answered and all our major gripes/issues were in fact addressed in the released version. )I have in ear wired-to-each-other wireless buds with a mic, a set of Onn brand in-ear wireless, a set of Onn Bone Conduction wireless (don't know it they have a mic yet), wired buds...... for game, my preference is to have a quiet room with no echo and use my phone's internal mic and speaker. Backup? earphones and my laptop - so that typing doesn't come through the mic.Bottom line: you can't know which software until you know which group... Even some on the VTT internal group finders use third party audio and/or video solutions.</blockquote>

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