Post by Elizabeth on Mar 18, 2020 3:48:37 GMT
Okay, prefacing with I've never tried to run a game over the internet using actual resources (it's always been just voice chat, house rules, and honor system), and I've also never judged an Sparks event so I have no experience with any of this and am pretty much just rambling here.
Since the Corona virus has started to force conventions to cancel I've been wondering if there is a way to run events online. I know there are sites and programs that let you basically run a game online (Roll20 is one of them, although the dice program it uses doesn't really let you create a wild die like we use. Astral is another but I haven't played with it so I don't know how well it would work). You can use them to prepare and share maps with your players, they have dice programs to roll for you (although see my earlier comment about the Wild Die), File storage to save character sheets and other resources, and text chat for communicating, and I know that Roll20 has voice chat. It's possible that some of the modules can be run like this.
I know that it would take a lot of effort to prepare a module to be run online, and some modules probably couldn't be run this way at all. I also know that there are probably a lot of members who wouldn't be able to play this way. And there is no way this would replace being able to sit at a table with our friends to play and plot and just goof off together. But it might be something to look into to tide us over while the Cons are shut down.
Since the Corona virus has started to force conventions to cancel I've been wondering if there is a way to run events online. I know there are sites and programs that let you basically run a game online (Roll20 is one of them, although the dice program it uses doesn't really let you create a wild die like we use. Astral is another but I haven't played with it so I don't know how well it would work). You can use them to prepare and share maps with your players, they have dice programs to roll for you (although see my earlier comment about the Wild Die), File storage to save character sheets and other resources, and text chat for communicating, and I know that Roll20 has voice chat. It's possible that some of the modules can be run like this.
I know that it would take a lot of effort to prepare a module to be run online, and some modules probably couldn't be run this way at all. I also know that there are probably a lot of members who wouldn't be able to play this way. And there is no way this would replace being able to sit at a table with our friends to play and plot and just goof off together. But it might be something to look into to tide us over while the Cons are shut down.
