What programs do you use when playing on-line?

[John Dallman]

I just stopped to look, since my character in our low-level AD&D1e campaign is busy doing funerals for villagers. I have:

• Three web browser tabs: our Discord for voice, our Roll 20, for maps, and Google Docs for the party loot.
• A spreadsheet with the master copy of my character, his customised spell list and his notes.
• PDFs with the campaign log, and the PHB.

John

 

[aramis erak]

At present...
Discord.
Sometimes using gTove as my VTT. (It works on most of my devices.)

If discord is down or blocked, Skype.

 

[John Desmarais]

If I run Discord in a web browser (instead of the client app), I actually use a different browser than what Roll20 is running in. This way, if something goes pear-shaped in one I can close and reopen the browser and not lose both sessions.

 

[Lanefan]

The online game I'm in uses exactly the same setup as the OP: Discord* for voice, Roll20 for maps and dice, Google Docs for party treasury. A fourth tab could be for the campaign logs if needed; they're online too.

* - though somewhat to my annoyance I have to use the Discord app, the online version kept crashing.

My character sheets (plural for one character!) are a hard-copy and a Word doc, with the Word doc being more up to date in some ways but less complete in others than the paper version. My PC's spell write-ups are another Word doc, that campaign's spells aren't online yet.

 

[Morrus]

Zoom, basically. Roll20 if we need a battlemap. But Zoom does the heavy lifting. You can sit there with a character sheet and dice just like in real life.

 

[MarkB]

Discord for voice, Roll20 for visuals, and D&D Beyond with the Beyond20 Chrome extension to run characters / monsters out of.

 

[tommybahama]

Discord, Voicemod (rarely used), Roll20, Dndbeyond to look up stuff, Syrinscape Online music player,

 

[Nytmare]

We're playing a text only narrative RPG.

Slack - Conversation, scheduling, game play, and die roller
Google Sheets - Character maker, character sheets, and the virtual game table
Google Site - Rules

 

[Ovinomancer]

Roll20 - for, well, you can guess

Teamspeak - been using the same teamspeak server for, well, a decade over various things? Great voice quality, nice tools for admin, and one of the extended group (not a roleplayer, though) springs for a private server. This gets used for all kinds of games across a pretty broad group, but only about 5-6 of us use it for RPGs.

OneNote - for the campaign notes/ideas. My Blades in the Dark campaign is one page, but my D&D game has pages for each character and a number of other ones for Sigil/factions/significant NPCs, and then a separate one for the campaign log, which is really just some scribbled (typed?) notes on stuff that doesn't end up attached to a PC.

 

[Cadence]

Google meet for video, voice, and screen sharing.

One of our younger players I'm DMing for either has preternatural luck with the online die roller from wizards, or is cheating. I might try Roll Dice With Friends this week.