10-25-2021, 01:58 PM | #11 | |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
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10-25-2021, 05:02 PM | #12 |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
The suitability of a particular service will vary with your and your players' computers, internet service and the general level of connectivity where you and they are. You'll just have to suck it and see.
For what it's worth I've used both Zoom and Jitsi successfully. Zoom I've pushed to seven participants including the GM. The problem at that level tends to be multiple people talking at once: you may have to tell people firmly who has the focus and who you want to hear from now. You basically just need voice and video conferencing and a capacity to sharescreen and show people documents, maps and other illustrations. A chat channel by which you can send messages both to the group and to individuals (for private note passing) is also desirable. Both Zoom and Jitsi have both of these. Only invest in the effort of learning how to use a Virtual Tabletop like Roll20 or Foundry if you need to do map intensive combat heavy role playing. You can do 'theatre of the mind' style stuff without them and sketched maps such as FATE uses will be perfectly feasable with just the basic video conferencing. We found that the character sheets for BLADES IN THE DARK and RUNEQUEST GLORANTHA on Roll20 were very useful without using the map functions. I like the look of the GURPS implementation on Foundry but haven't used it in an actual game yet. Be prepared to adapt to the medium and do ask your players to have a bit of consideration for each other and for you. Good luck! Have fun.
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10-25-2021, 10:48 PM | #13 |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
I like GM-ing Using the Roll20.net virtual table top. It supports hex grids, and you can upload a map and overlay it on top of the hex grid.
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10-26-2021, 12:29 AM | #14 |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
Some thoughts in no particular order:
That's mostly all I got. I wish you luck in your endeavor.
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10-27-2021, 01:03 AM | #15 |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
I fully do agree with what has been said above: keep things simple and remember that the main problem is that everyone (including the GM) must speak in turn.
Personally, I used Discord (voice only, no video) and Miro to show things to my players (maps, pictures, and so on). Both are free and very easy to use. The chat section of Discord even allows to prepare the meeting before it starts (discussion about the background, character creation, exchange of documents…). |
10-27-2021, 01:57 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
One member of my group insists on video, otherwise I'd do voice-only quite happily. As everyone has it, it allows recording of sessions, and has unlimited time we use Skype.
If I want to show a map, I hold it up to the screen or link it in chat if it's available online. We don't do tight 'tactical map' movement (it's an SF game, so most fights are pretty quick gunfights, often at considerable range), so this works okay. The campaign's been run in this format for years now, and it works okay.
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11-01-2021, 11:08 AM | #17 |
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Re: First time GMing GURPS Online
There can be a bandwidth/connection speed issue with Skype or Zoom.
I don't remember the percentage, but a good portion of the world has very slow Internet. Even in the United States, there are areas where you can't get a fast connection. We've used Discord.com for discussions and short bits of roleplaying, and Roll20.net for running most games. You can roll dice on both, and both let you put up maps, character images, etc. For someone who has a slow Internet connection where moving live camera images freeze on them and they can't see or hear what's going on, Discord and Roll20 work fine because the player still has time to read everything.
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