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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7948288" data-attributes="member: 6669384"><p>For my group the social aspect is a good chunk of why they're there. To som extent that means that the side chatter, the jokes and stories we swap, are part of the fun. Doing a group chat doean't do a good job of handling it.</p><p></p><p>We've used plain old Skype for a couple of our players who live in the middle of nowhere. (We often joke that they're actually on the far side of nowhere.) I roll their dice at the physical table, and it works.</p><p></p><p>Not sure that would scale up very well though. I was hopingthere was a dice-roller ap that worked with/through Skype, but there isn't. </p><p></p><p>Anyone know an app that can just run in parallel with it? </p><p></p><p>Now I'd like to be able to just set up the regular miniatures, set my webcam so it sees the table from the same height as the eyes of a person sitting at the table, and give it a go. Not sure my home bandwidth can handle the load though, for a table with a DM and seven players.</p><p></p><p>While it's nice to see my friends' faces, I can do without if it lets them see the game board and keeps the quality of the link workable.</p><p></p><p>Anyone know a simple video chat that can support eight people without eating bandwidth, and maybe allows a shared dice roller? </p><p></p><p>I mean, I'm in computers and it isn't at all clear to me why my bandwidth need increases just because more people are looking at the screen(s). It's the same image, outgoing, whether it gets picked up by one chat partner or a dozen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 7948288, member: 6669384"] For my group the social aspect is a good chunk of why they're there. To som extent that means that the side chatter, the jokes and stories we swap, are part of the fun. Doing a group chat doean't do a good job of handling it. We've used plain old Skype for a couple of our players who live in the middle of nowhere. (We often joke that they're actually on the far side of nowhere.) I roll their dice at the physical table, and it works. Not sure that would scale up very well though. I was hopingthere was a dice-roller ap that worked with/through Skype, but there isn't. Anyone know an app that can just run in parallel with it? Now I'd like to be able to just set up the regular miniatures, set my webcam so it sees the table from the same height as the eyes of a person sitting at the table, and give it a go. Not sure my home bandwidth can handle the load though, for a table with a DM and seven players. While it's nice to see my friends' faces, I can do without if it lets them see the game board and keeps the quality of the link workable. Anyone know a simple video chat that can support eight people without eating bandwidth, and maybe allows a shared dice roller? I mean, I'm in computers and it isn't at all clear to me why my bandwidth need increases just because more people are looking at the screen(s). It's the same image, outgoing, whether it gets picked up by one chat partner or a dozen. [/QUOTE]
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