DLN Roleplaying Campaign

Gaming
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Continuing the discussion from Dungeons And Dragons anyone?:

Some folks in the Discord server expressed interest in a DLN roleplaying group. I volunteered to serve as game master, and thought I would extend the invitation to the gamers on these forums as well. To that end, I’ve created a form for interested parties to fill out.

Apologies for leaning on the Big G, but Limesurvey was not cooperating. Perhaps I’ll set up a simpler, self-hosted solution in the future.

EDIT: No prior experience whatsoever is needed!

EDIT2: While I did put D&D 5e as an example on the survey, I should have mentioned that I don’t own that particular game. Just FYI!

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Submitted. :slight_smile:

How often would you think we would play?

Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly?

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That depends on the players, really. I should have put that in the poll. :upside_down_face: If a weekly schedule works out, awesome, but if it’s less frequent (which is probably more realistic, scheduling being what it is), that’s cool too! Do you have a preference?

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You don’t need to self-host a G Docs alternative, I started a thread to help other users tackle the problem:

FOSS alternatives to Google Docs

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For me it would probably be bi-weekly or monthly. I can’t set off a specific day each week.

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If it’s on Mumble i’m in. :smiley:

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I’m not familiar with Mumble, but I’m sure I could figure it out if that’s where the group wants to do it. I answered the survey.

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That’s part of what the survey is there to find out. :upside_down_face: I will say that Mumble seems to be winning at this time.

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Ryan wrote up some instructions. I actually haven’t used it much either, as most of the people I interact with are on Discord anyway.

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Which ToS update was that?

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Yikes! I probably wasn’t thinking about privacy as much when that update came out.

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Alright, makes sense. If you’re interested, though, fill out the survey!

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Howdy @DannyBoy, I wanted to let you know about https://foundryvtt.com/,

It is self hostable and can integrate into Jitsi. So you wouldn’t have to worry about running mumble alongside if you want it all in one package

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Thanks for sharing that! Looks interesting.

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Ouch, a proprietary application that costs $50 per license? Sounds like a no.

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compared to Roll20 and Fantesy Grounds it has the best pricing.

I havent found an open source option for VTT yet.

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MapTool is FLOSS.

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Are we married to the idea of a dudes on maps style grid game, or would we consider a theater of the mind? It’s a lot easier to play that style. My other online RPG groups just use whatever online conferencing software is convenient.

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I have most experience with “theater of the mind” style games, but I am not opposed to Map grid style, I have just never tried it. :slight_smile:

PS: Maptool does not seem to launch on Manjaro. (it gets a segafult)

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Roll20 is free (though there is a premium tier.) MapTool depends on an old version of Oracle Java and really is quite limited besides. I’m looking into Rolisteam currently, with Roll20 as a backup.