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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 5865141" data-attributes="member: 984">We did this for a time when one of our players moved out of town.&nbsp;&nbsp; We had voice, we had camera, what could go wrong?As anyone who has ever tried a conference call with multiple people can attest, not that things can go wrong per se, but there are definite challenges:a) flow of conversation is difficult with the remote player, because all the visual clues between the group (knowing when to start, stop talking, etc) are lostb) if there are multiple conversations going on at the same time the remote player will be unable to hear anythingc) even with the camera, staying part of any miniatures stuff is difficult (could call this tactical awareness)In the end, at best, the remote player was perhaps 25% involved (not by their attention span, just how much they could comprehend and contribute).&nbsp; We did it for quite some time until they moved back to the area, however it was not the seamless experiment we thought it might be.It did, however, let the campaign go on and had them be at least as much a part of the storyline as they could be, and for that reason it was worth it.good luck!peace,Kannik</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kannik, post: 5865141, member: 984"] We did this for a time when one of our players moved out of town. We had voice, we had camera, what could go wrong? As anyone who has ever tried a conference call with multiple people can attest, not that things can go wrong per se, but there are definite challenges: a) flow of conversation is difficult with the remote player, because all the visual clues between the group (knowing when to start, stop talking, etc) are lost b) if there are multiple conversations going on at the same time the remote player will be unable to hear anything c) even with the camera, staying part of any miniatures stuff is difficult (could call this tactical awareness) In the end, at best, the remote player was perhaps 25% involved (not by their attention span, just how much they could comprehend and contribute). We did it for quite some time until they moved back to the area, however it was not the seamless experiment we thought it might be. It did, however, let the campaign go on and had them be at least as much a part of the storyline as they could be, and for that reason it was worth it. good luck! peace, Kannik [/QUOTE]

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