Taking into account I started a day late, I’ve been doing this for a whole week now!

I’m not claiming to have written compelling content. In fact the last couple of posts have been below par.

Let’s get on with the show…

We are 18 months or so into that world event, which means our D&D campaign has been on hiatus for the duration.

I know that online play took off (probably an under statement) because of those events.

My main computing device is an iPad. Which meant that using established platforms like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds along side something like Skype/Zoom/Discord to run a game is clunky and barely usable at best. Throw in that home life makes doing stuff online like this a lot harder without interruptions. It was an easy decision for me to just say we would pick up our campaign again in safer times.

Despite this one free online tool did grab my attention called owlbear.rodeo. It seems to have what I would want in something like this. First the price, it’s free. It’s light weight, it basically allows you to share a map and move tokens around on it. And that’s it. You can set up a fog of war on the map to hide sections from players. It’s browser based. So platform independent.

So if I was going to go the online route for playing I’d be using Discord and owlbear.rodeo.

I will say that the only streamed content I watch is the Sky Flourish session prep for his current campaign and his “preshow” D&D discussion/chat where he talks about current events in the world of D&D. Or the odd discussion Sly Flourish puts up with other content creators.

I find these helpful. Especially seeing Sly Flourish applying his way of the Lazy DM to a published campaign.

All I will say about streamed games is that I’m not a fan.