Your Favorite? Vid-chat. Play by Post. Table top, face/face.
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:41 pm
Video-chat/skype, tabletop, play by post forums.
What do you prefer and why?
Personally, I most def like tabletop face to face games better than most online formats. I can't do anything live or streaming due to only 10g/month allowance atm.
But they've all 3 got some unique payoffs.
Live I can read facial cues, move fast as hell, and story tell in my best habitat. A couple times it was more like a LARP game. I feed off their emotions (that didn't sound right
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As players we're friends of course so we share alot of great extra info. But with that can come drama, personal feelings, and some in your face reality.
Online you can't believe what anyone tells you anyway. They can fly around with total anonymity and say what they want and not have to physically back it up (that bothers me somedays). And like a song on the radio my mental pictures of you guys is probably much different than the truth. Most of you look like stick ppl in my head, except the one guy. I envision him more as a unicorn that poops skittles.
Good news I appreciate some of the artistic writing that happens (kind of a dying art-form in the wake of texting and hashtags), the hermit in me likes the separated safe feeling of being at home alone in my bunny slippers. And being able to just "Turn Off" anything is always a bonus!!
I assume everyone playing at home is all virtual maps on their laptops or phones or whatever. So graphics can go either way.
Not to promote another site but I just noticed the abilities of crases58's roll20.com site. It has an innovative script run virtual tabletop. I love that concept, it does so many useful functions is what it is. That's some next level shit rite there. It does almost everything a DM needs, you can use it as a tool from here, there, or home.
Anyone like one system over the other or some facet that is of particular note?
What do you prefer and why?
Personally, I most def like tabletop face to face games better than most online formats. I can't do anything live or streaming due to only 10g/month allowance atm.
But they've all 3 got some unique payoffs.
Live I can read facial cues, move fast as hell, and story tell in my best habitat. A couple times it was more like a LARP game. I feed off their emotions (that didn't sound right
) As players we're friends of course so we share alot of great extra info. But with that can come drama, personal feelings, and some in your face reality.
Online you can't believe what anyone tells you anyway. They can fly around with total anonymity and say what they want and not have to physically back it up (that bothers me somedays). And like a song on the radio my mental pictures of you guys is probably much different than the truth. Most of you look like stick ppl in my head, except the one guy. I envision him more as a unicorn that poops skittles.
Good news I appreciate some of the artistic writing that happens (kind of a dying art-form in the wake of texting and hashtags), the hermit in me likes the separated safe feeling of being at home alone in my bunny slippers. And being able to just "Turn Off" anything is always a bonus!!
I assume everyone playing at home is all virtual maps on their laptops or phones or whatever. So graphics can go either way.
Not to promote another site but I just noticed the abilities of crases58's roll20.com site. It has an innovative script run virtual tabletop. I love that concept, it does so many useful functions is what it is. That's some next level shit rite there. It does almost everything a DM needs, you can use it as a tool from here, there, or home.
Anyone like one system over the other or some facet that is of particular note?
