Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : hollowone
From : claw
Date : Thu Oct 05 2023 08:28:37

On 04 Oct 2023, hollowone said the following...
 ho> Kind of both. I tried VTT but it ended up preparing tables and mostly
 ho> for board games or card games than anything else. I played MtG with my
 ho> son and then tried to convince him to play Battletech too.
 ho> 
 ho> It worked for a while, but still he's different generation, can't blame
 ho> him not to play games with his dad :>
 ho> 
 ho> My own gen... let's say I'm one of few who's left interested in it. I
 ho> have a project to revive it among my group of friends from home town and
 ho> use VTT or something similar to play.. but we just can't sync up for the
 ho> last 2 years.
 ho> 
 ho> On potentially reaching out to strangers to join/play/run game... I
 ho> don't trust I can prioritize that nor I have much time to develop new
 ho> relations today..
 ho> 
 ho> All above combined creates mostly a limitation in my head, perhaps...
 ho> but still I mostly keep the books and read them occasionally.
 ho> 
 ho> I found ChatGPT close to a game session as well.. not exactly that you
 ho> can do RPG with the bot, but I had few conversations that my questions
 ho> were indeed like if I was playing an investigation kind of game... it
 ho> was cool.
 ho> 
 ho> -h1

Well I have 2 kids and I'm still going to try to get them to play it.  Even if Dad is boring :p.  The way I got around the whole everyone being separated is I made a Nextcloud server for with the Talk service.  Its like out own private social media for just our group.  The app makes it like texting but you can share pictures and see history.  Share files and so on.  It even has a shared calendar so you can set a schedule.  Just and idea that might help you get back to it.  If you are just looking for a new group.  It would be nice to not have to GM/DM all the time.  All are welcome on our teamspeak server.  Voice.clawfest.com  Just say you know Claw and everyone is pretty friendly.  Right now I'm working on reading through the Dungeons and Dragons books since I haven't played since I was 12.  I need to know the new rules. 

Once I can afford it I will be buying a license for Foundry VTT and setting up a server for it. Then we have the nice visual maping for the battles if nothing else.  

Let me know what you think.

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