Online Communication for Roleplaying Games
Let’s Play! (Remotely)
Tabletop roleplaying is all about communication. If you are playing remotely, you need to talk and share handouts. Here’s some tools you can use.
Discord
Share handouts, chat in text, voice, and video, all in Discord
The most popular communication tool among gamers, discord allows text chat, voice chat, and video chat. And it’s free for all features a gamer is likely to need.
And join us to talk about gaming on the Dread Unicorn discord server: https://discord.gg/2SHyATG62d
Slack
Got my Solo Ops cards all arranged and using RollButler on slack to roll those d6s.
If I have a lot of fiddly handouts, like the cards used in Night’s Black Agents: Solo Ops, I find Slack an easier platform than a big bad virtual tabletop. Super easy to use and teach, wish their UI designers made a VTT. And free.
Zoom
Zoom is everywhere now. Video chat for 45 minutes free, so someone will have to pay to get a game going, or be prepared to set up a new session every 45 minutes. Lots of YouTubers use Zoom for their videos.
Meet
Google Hangouts died, which was sad to many gamers. The new Google video chat, Meet, works much like Zoom. And like Zoom it doesn’t have a zillion add-ons for gamers like Hangouts used to. The best part of Meet is the price: free.
What about you? Use a communication tool not listed here? Leave us a note in the comments below.
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