Hello everyone, I want to explain a few things before I get into writing up this section. For me as a Dungeon Master, I have put a lot of time into creating my games. The experience is an enjoyable one for me since I love creating things like this. Our campaigns will be played live around an actual table at a later time but for now we will be doing our games online using Discord and Roll20. We sat down as a group and discussed it and decided it was easier to just do it online for now but we will for sure at a later date being sitting around a table as well as running games online.
If we start a new adventure or campaign up and are short on players, what we want to do is just run "and record" an opening one shot adventure (a single session) and then upload it as a session 0 of our campaign. Anyone that watches it and wants to join the group simply needs to send me an email at jamesefullard@gmail.com so we can sit down and talk.
This section of requirement is actually things that should just be common sense for the way we plan to play our games. This is not us trying to be overly strict on players, we simply want to put out the best quality game we can and the below requirements should be self explanatory.
• Webcams: For now, no webcams are needed. We are using reactive portraits in place of webcams.
• Stable Internet Connection: When I watch a D&D game on Youtube or even Twitch, the single most irritating thing for me is a stream or game constantly buffering due to bad internet on the hosts part or watching player and even DM webcams constantly stuttering because they have a bad internet connection. This will not be one of those games. People who play in our campaign are "required" to have stable internet connections.
• Microphone: Please have a quality microphone that puts out your voice clearly with little to no background noise. One person having random background noise might not be a huge problem but when 2, 3 or 4 players have background noise, the audio is just a mess. Constant background noise will mess up the ambience music and sounds that we will be using in our games plus viewers don't want to sit and listen to people with background noise going on during a live game so please make sure you handle the background noise.
• Discord & Roll20: We use Discord for all audio and video for our webcams and/or Interactive Portraits. This is required and we ask players to be familiar with how to use Discord. You will also be required to understand how to use Roll20, we use Roll20 for all character sheets, dice rolls and battlemaps.
• Form of Contact: I need some form of contact as the campaigns Dungeon Master to get in touch with you as a player, some method of communication that you check often such as Facebook Messenger, Discord, email ... something along those lines. Times come when I need to contact a player for whattever reason and I need to be able to reach that player without having to wait for days for a reply.
Below are rules that we really want to enforce and have followed. The reason behind these rules are because I have seen these things happen personally and simply do not want to repeat them in a new campaign.
• Digital Devices: Not so much an issue in digital D&D but a problem we have had on occasion in the past at a live tabletop is players constantly playing or fiddling with cellphones. While this is not a super serious issue with online D&D, we do ask that you please do not have other games running while we play our games. Please don't be playing World of Warcraft or Diablo, texting your girlfriend/boyfriend or some other such thing while we play our games "yes, I've personally seen this happen before". Your Dungeon Master puts in a lot of work into giving you the best campaign he/she can give you so in return we ask that you give them that same effort and respect. Being tabbed out playing a PC game until your turn begins is one of the most disrespectful things a player can do to a DM and if you are found doing this, you will not be playing with us any longer. We simply ask, for the couplr of hours we take for each session, please put in a couple of hours to this game.
• Be Mature & Respectful: We are all adults, please ... let us all act like adults when we play. (no need to elaborate on this any more - this should come naturally)
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