Iron Gods - Thursday the 19th

[C. Paul Counts]

Who's down for an all-online session of Iron Gods?

[Chris Freeman]

I am down to clown, good sir!

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 11:22 C. Paul Counts <cou...@gmail.com> wrote:

Who's down for an all-online session of Iron Gods?

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[Will T]

I'm in.

Also, this is a quick 4-page read from MCG on playing online - worth the quick read.

 - w

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[Daniel Tullemans]

Woohoo! Plague party!

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[Chris Freeman]

What platform? Roll 20?

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[russell.]

I'm tentatively in.  I was supposed to be at a wedding that night, but idk what's going on with that.  Shruggy face.

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[Will T]

Maaaybe skip the wedding?

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[russell.]

That's what I would like to do!  Gotta talk to rooth first.

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[Byron Combs]

I'm definitely skipping the wedding and playing the game instead.

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[Damon Smith]

I'll give this a whirl

[Will Curry]

I'm going to try my best to be there!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 6:55 PM Damon Smith <damonal...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'll give this a whirl

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[Chris Freeman]

I've already skipped the wedding, working on the divorce.

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[C. Paul Counts]

Yeah, Roll20 for the table.  What platform do we want to use for comms?

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[Will T]

Roll 20 for vid & audio?

I can hop in for a test-run this week, to see how things are working.

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[C. Paul Counts]

I'm willing to give it a shot.  They've had a lot of time to fix things (and now the whole world it going to stress-test it).

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[Daniel Tullemans]

Is the LMDDD Discord still a viable backup?

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[Will T]

Yuuup, although it's audio only. And here's an invite link: https://discord.gg/2uwYm7Z

 - w

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[russell.]

Oh the wedding is next Thursday!  I'll be there!

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[Byron Combs]

Roll20 video has been acceptable for my D&D game for the last couple years.  It's definitely improved, though it seems like one or two people chronically drop out.  If you whack the "reconnect" button from time to time you can sometimes fix it.  Or sometimes make it worse.

We still use discord for audio, and that works perfectly 95-ish % of the time.  We're all sort of nearby, which might help, though we do switch between various servers (including South) if the connection gets weird.  There still seems to be some issues in the Me <==> Discord <==> Trufant chain, though, as witnessed time and again with pathfinder over the years (hence the recent use of Skype).  Also, though discord chat rooms themselves are audio only, we could build a video chat with multiple participants if we were so inclined.  Might just exacerbate any audio issues that already exist, though

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[Will T]

Also, Skype supports group video, and seems to work best.

Does anyone *not* have a Skype acct, and also *not* want to sign up for one?

At this point I'd suggest we try full-native Roll20, and if that craps out, we go to Discord (since I think that has everyone but Damon there already), and perhaps Skype last?

Skype might work best, but if others don't have/don't want an account, I'd rank it lowest.

 - w

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[Byron Combs]

Sounds good to me.  Skype did do a few weird things to my work laptop.  Updated a bunch of MS Office stuff on its own, outside of the corporate update policy and there was some odd OS behavior that didn't exist prior.  Updated BIOS/drivers took care of it, but it was still an unexpected and unwelcome hassle.

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[Damon Smith]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with the options, so you guys just let me know what I need to sign up for / download, etc

[Chris Freeman]

I'd prefer not to use Skype. The others I'm fine with though.

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I'm pretty unfamiliar with the options, so you guys just let me know what I need to sign up for / download, etc

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[Chris Freeman]

Anybody had any experience with Twitch? I know the Critical Roll folks use it and it's part of that chthonic creature called Amazon, but no real-time XP with it.

[Will T]

I have - but it would very much require some setup. Besides, it needs an underlying system like Zoom.

Sooo, Zoom? https://zoom.us/

I think some (non-techie) folks and I are going to try this today.

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[Chris Freeman]

Oh, I didn't know that. I've used Zoom before in a professional setting, but never for gaming. That might be a good solution.

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[Will T]

The "free" plan only lasts for 40mins. I'm going to pay for a plan that lets sessions go up to 24hrs at a time.

Gonna use it for other groups of friends, too.

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[Daniel Tullemans]

Zoom?!...

You mean that invasive software that, when uninstalled, leaves behind a persistent web server which triggers its own reinstallation? And until recently could easily be tricked into installing whatever an attacker wanted) — a vulnerability that went ignored long enough that the discoverer went public?

Will, with your focus on self-hosted solutions, I'm surprised you haven't looked into Jitsi Meet. All communication is entirely peer-to-peer, so there's virtually no load on the server — to the point that the developers host their own, public instance for anyone to use.

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[Will T]

Oooof.

 - w

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