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1st thing - the single message. Yeah. Getting that 15min before the game. OH, U MEAN FOR IN PERSON? 2nd thing - online games can be hard. OH, U MEAN FOR AUTISTS LIKE U, WHO CANT DO THE SIMPLE THINGS, LIKE "PAYING ATTENTION". Fuck, what a blunder of a video...

I really enjoyed my experience with Start Playing. Played STA , D&D, and Mothership. It's definitely a good way to test out new systems . All the GMs I had paced the games well and really did a good job of explaining the rule systems. The only thing that sucked was sometimes I couldn't make a session and really felt like I was letting the group down, but for the most part they were able to keep the session running.

My partner has been DMing full-time on Roll20 since the start of the pandemic, running around 11 long-term games a week. I'm currently active in two of those games (I pay! lol), and we finished Out of the Abyss with a third group last year - so I've played at three different paid tables over the course of multiple years. It's always been worth it to me; the players are almost always great folks who show up to have a good time, and the first couple sessions might be a little awkward as we get to know each other, but it smooths itself out over time. We always start sessions with around 10 minutes of digression time, and the longer a campaign goes, the harder it is to contain digression time to just 10 minutes because we're all friends catching up for the week. I also think people are more willing to stay invested long-term and are kept engaged on a session-to-session basis because our DM puts a lot of work into custom maps, finding great music, recording his own foley, and playing around with voice mods to give certain characters a little something extra. A lot of players are motivated to put in more energy and effort because I think they can tell they'll get a lot out of the game if they do, and our DM knows he has to work a little harder to keep people engaged online with voice only/no cameras. There have been a few stray weirdos or people who didn't mesh well, but in the last three years, I can really only think of one that passed the point of "kind of annoying person but tolerable" straight into "you are a lunatic for real."

Having place our own limits on our ttrpg time was organically enforced in the past just by people not being in the same room together. Now that we are all always online, these natural boundaries are overcome with the push of a button. Now these boundaries take effort to maintain rather than effort to overcome. Putting a lot more responsibility on the players collectively than had been expected in the past which a lot of the newer and more exuberant players aren't ready for.

Great video. I just got my first paid DM gig and this helps with my journey moving forward

So I started playing dnd online, before then I never played it. So for me (I’m now running two games) as a DM I somewhat like it online better, but I cannot tell if it’s cause I’m so used to online play.

Watching this just as im about to start an online west marches campaign, using a system similar to brp (prep heavy) for my uni mates now rhat were all graduated and moved away has me... Disconcerted

ok but how the hell do people find a good or big enough group in person to play with???

i can remmber that the dm was deep in the story about possbile upcoming war bewteen elves and humans and me in the mic starts cursing about an fucking mosquito flying thought my room of my aprtment and was getting realy annjoying and i also nearly fell of an chair and almost knock off my monitor that had the rulle20 map on at the same time while trying to kill the mosquito that was haning high on the wall

I have... Very many bad experiences with TTRPGs, both online and offline. I'm scared of going back in, especially since I don't have any real income. For the offline TTRPGs, my ex was a DM with ADHD and a D&D hyperfixation that never ended and that only excalated to years of campaigns with THE SAME OVERARCHING STORY, TRIGGERING MY FOMO, my family situation didn't help and it's a great escape, I started having delusions (thinking my character was a past life), I was having gender questions that I was quickly scared off to making myself from a mormon member of the friend group... I ended up flirting with an ED and a couple weeks later max, I was out of all campaigns, cold turkey. As for my online situation (which was a play by chat), it was more about people just not being good. Lots of transphobia, I got semi-harassed, my depression made me spiral into doing things both I and my boyfriend weren't comfortable with, I was being more secretive, delusions were back (not like before though), addiction came into play... I ended up leaving cold-turkey, also. I just think, at this point, that roleplaying and TTRPGs and RPGs that aren't videogames just aren't for me because I risk of hurting myself and others emotionally unless I deal with my mental state first. And so, I just completely avoid anything that is roleplay but isn't a videogame.

My group stopped playing 3yrs ago. can bring myself to start an new group. miss playing but invest so much time and effort to make these people friends and then poof gone.

Hiring a pro DM online is the way to go!

I’d love to hear more about your experience running West Marches

I only play online now. Me and my childhood friends moved away from each other but refuse to stop playing together.

Super ADHD over here. Using books and paper definitely keeps my focus better. It was actually the Apocalypse system that got me back into RPGs. I am an old school theater kid and author so I am having a lot of fun fleshing out our Dungeon World with our DM. The one exception for an apple pencil is tracing my paper maps to put them in Procreate and color them. I am currently working on a massive project which will be printed out for our DM to keep. No way would an online experience hold my attention like this.

I'm playing dnd with a grouponline and it's most of our first time we have some experienced players but so far I'm loving it. I'm hoping these issues don't bite us in the ass, I've been loving it so much

oh no ADHD is so relatable... and the rest of the video tbh

been playing online dnd since the start of 2024 with start playing actually! Been craving to play and thought of using it as a great way for some exposure therapy for my social anxiety while also learning to combat my commitment struggles. I really lucked out with the first dm I chose to play with as he works really well for me! We don't really use cameras which i'm kinda glad (we had the option to use it in one campaign but declined) bc i've learned i really enjoy the freedom to show on my face that Im bored if someone is taking too long on their turn in combat and can just skim twitter until their turn passes, or stuck between lots of facial and bodily expressions vs none at all but neither might come across correctly to most people for how i'm feeling and i don't have to spend time and effort to present myself like a mostly normal person 😅 Online has honestly worked really well for me, at least as a player! I think for me, in person DMing works best and online for being a player! Can't play in person anymore since my friends moved, but i'm definitely enjoying online through startplaying ❤ Just wished some strangers were better with understanding their boundaries and communicating their problem so things could improve for them instead of just quickly leaving during or after a session (or suddenly after MANY sessions), but i think that's just part of the chronically online "conflict resolution" style 😅 (and of course it's fine to also leave after a session and you don't have to give a reason, it doesn't even have to be a big reason to leave bc everyone wants different things from a game, im talking more about the chronic conflict avoiders )

ok, but seriously tho, depending on the campaign tone this is a legit awesome set of mechanics.

First video of yours I've come across, thought it was great and I've subbed. Loved the production style particularly

This is why I love your videos, Yea they are about TTRPGS but they are also about a lot more

Ha, i actually thought about doing a Lancer game

writing notes by hand is SO helpful, i can attest to this.

For me, GMing online is as if someone turned on a computer game to extreme mode, and I am bad at computer games. I have been a GM for 36 years, and I hate online gaming. I know some who enjoy it and I know some GMs that are good at it, apparently. But I can't engage with a game online. I can't talk to another PC directly or easily. For me, online gaming is just bad.

I saw story genius on your bookshelf. I have that book. It’s the only writing “craft” book that I’ve ever purchased. I’m definitely going to take a look at this book that you recommended. Thanks! The fact that you read all of these books tell me that you really care about storytelling; and for me, storytelling is my weakest point as a dungeon master. Subscribeddddddd

Greta video dude.

After playing pf2e on foundryvtt for over a year, I find it hard to want to play in person. My experience has been soooo pleasant compared to any in person game I've played. That could have to do with the people I'm playing with but still

I prefer in person a lot, but I've been DMing the same online campaign for 4 years now and it works pretty well.

Oh yeah west marches was cool for a few years but I’m so glad to now have a small group of friends that I play multiple campaigns with

one thing that is way better on online games is that you can do highly personalized character sheets, i dont use character sheets when playing online, i just collage and draw and write down all the necessary info about my character like stats, abilities, equipment, all of that, but also my art, and i taylor the whole thing around my character specificaly