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Old 03-19-2020, 03:41 AM   #1
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Default Has COVID hit your gaming?

Because it certainly has hit mine. I would much prefer to meet in real-life, but that's apparently not an option at the moment. Instead we have to meet over a virtual tabletop. Blech.

And you?
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Old 03-19-2020, 04:47 AM   #2
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One of my players has suggested playing over Discord or something, but we still haven't made concrete plans. I'm sure it's possible to play with several players over voice chat, but so far, I've not had good experiences with it.

Also, I enjoy ordinary social interaction much more than technological substitutes. We joke that one of my players* has been practicing self-isolation for all his life. Now, finally, he's the hero we deserve. I am not, however, on his level.

*Well, technically, although he hasn't actually played a session with us for about five years.
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Old 03-19-2020, 05:44 AM   #3
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Everyone (well, Dork Tower and XKCD) is making the self-isolation jokes, and I see the obligatory Monty Python and the Holy Grail clip, but no "we cannot get out. Songs, songs on high."? Come on guys, step it up!
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Old 03-19-2020, 11:16 AM   #4
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Yeah, one of the group is of vulnerable health and three of us work in a service type job that exposes us to lots of people daily. Rather than risk it we are on hiatus and looking into VTT.
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Old 03-19-2020, 11:17 AM   #5
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Checking out AstralTabletop right now. Not very impressed.
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Old 03-19-2020, 11:32 AM   #6
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Possible, uh, positive gaming impact from otherwise negative news, in that one of my players, who usually has little time to game has asked to join us when we play on Discord.

The negative is that is is because he's in isolation because of symptoms. He'll know tonight if he's infected or not. If he is, he wants to use the two weeks plus in isolation to game, so that's good. Also, he's not in any vulnerable group, so over 99% odds of survival.

Edit: It's confirmed. One of my players has COVID-19. His odds are excellent, in fact, he is the healthiest person who games with me.

I'm unlikely to have caught it from him, since it's a few days since I met him, but I'll avoid contact with anyone for the next two weeks nonetheless. Given that I already had flu-like symptoms because it's the end of winter before this started, it's not like there would be any new signs if I had been infected.

My odds are pretty good too. At least 95%. Well, 90%, maybe. Better than that, surely. I don't have all of the risk factors, my lungs are fine, I think. :-)
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Old 03-19-2020, 12:20 PM   #7
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Default Re: Has COVID hit your gaming?

Of course. All of my game nights (public and private) have been cancelled and the game stores' event areas have been closed by order of the governor (though some shut down their gaming areas before that happened). I'm not a big fan of playing online, so it's video games and solo board/card games for me.

The only thing left on the schedule is Gen Con. Origins said they'd say something by May 1, so maybe they'll know around June?
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Old 03-19-2020, 12:29 PM   #8
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I wouldn't bet on conventions for the rest of the year.
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Old 03-19-2020, 12:34 PM   #9
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My group is spread across the continental US so, no, COVID-19 hasn't impacted us as we already game on-line via Discord and Tabletop Simulator.

One of my gamers is a Federal Employee working in Immigration, and she's complaining that they haven't closed her down yet. My sister runs the Post Office where she lives, so she's exposed, but, they haven't shut her down either.
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Old 03-21-2020, 04:30 PM   #10
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I deleted an off-topic tangent — if you want to talk general C-19 statistics, please do so elsewhere. This thread is for discussing how your group is dealing with the situation.

My group had our irregularly scheduled D&D game a week ago and even that morning we were discussing whether we should be getting together. I guess we’ll find out in a week or so if we all get sick. We don’t plan to game in person again until the situation is considerably more stable, and (because we don’t usually do a lot of map work) we’ve been discussing a variety of ways to game online.
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