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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9412133" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is far better done in the same physical space, interacting as human beings rather than faceless voices.  It's hard to read a room when there isn't a room to read....and whether everyone involved has the tech required to make it work.I'm in an online game.  We use roll20 for the VTT and discord for the audio.  My desktop won't run roll20 if any of the fancy bells and whistles are turned on e.g. dynamic lighting and won't run discord well at all (there's a known bug in discord that causes it to slowly hog more and more cpu space on some machines, but it took me ages to learn of this; discord also insists on messing with my sound settings without my telling it to).  So I use my smartphone for discord, and there too it hogs the cpu (I get a system warning every time but don't see it until I shut the app down) and drops out constantly due to my not-always-reliable home wifi.All of which makes the experience considerably less than fun, much of the time.And that's just as a player.  Hell only knows how bad it'd get if I ever tried DMing on it.</blockquote>