Roll20 people: I’ve been running a blades campaign and am thinking of trying to move some of our sessions online since scheduling days we can all be in the same place is becoming an issue. I’ve been messing around with the prebuilt character sheets on Roll20 and they seem pretty user friendly but since none of my people have played online before I was wondering if anyone here had put together a blades specific Roll20 tutorial I can give to my players.
Roll20 people: I’ve been running a blades campaign and am thinking of trying to move some of our sessions online…
Roll20 people: I’ve been running a blades campaign and am thinking of trying to move some of our sessions online…
There are a plethora of general Roll20 stuff in general, but player-side Roll20 is stupid easy to get a hang of. Your players need only know where to find their character sheet and how to interact with it, which is literally either pushing buttons or filling blanks in. If you’re getting into using other stuff like maps, most of that work is GM-side. Player wise it doesn’t take much to drop a token onto a map; players (or the GM) upload the token they want to use to their sheet and then drag-drop from their sheet onto the map.
I haven’t tried it recently, but the Roll20 voice/video wasn’t great. The groups I play with use other clients (such as Discord) for voice.
Hi, new to the community, but I’ve run about a dozen sessions of roll20 BitD. Randomly, two players won’t be able to hear each other so we use different voice tools, but for character sheets and mood images, roll20 is PERFECT.
My tip/trick is that I made a editable-by-everyone character sheet, and keep it tabbed to the Crew view, so there is a singe record of crew upgrades, as well as crew-faction reputations.
Yeah, don’t use the built-in video/voice. It’s consistently terrible and not worth the effort. But then, Discord is easy to use and works great.
Phillip Cameron That’s in fact the intended way of using the crew sheet :)!
I ran a Blades campaign on Roll20 for several months (and have been running other games with Roll20 for a few years now).
The character sheets for Blades makes playing super easy there. If you have the cash to spare and can upgrade to the $10/month plan there’s also a Blades API script that lets you add things to the “table” that sync to parts of character sheets. So you can have a page with the map of Duskvol and be able to see everyone’s current stress/trauma/harm/etc. as part of the tabletop (as well as crank out new clocks that can be synced to character sheets as they fill as well).
What others have noted about the built-in video/voice is very true. Just turn it off at the campaign level and use something else. We mostly used Google Hangouts to handle voice and video for our games. (Bonus: if you use the “hangouts on air” option that’s buried inside the account settings on youtube you can record your sessions to youtube and review them later.)