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As someone who runs a D&D game for kids through online, this video speaks to my soul XD

And this is why we have a dice bot in our server

Yeah this shit happens all the time. Our dm will go silent on discord and then 4 minutes later he comes back in and is like "did any of you hear that?" And we'd say no and he'd just go "God damn it!"

Trying to play D&D online is either convenient and well used, or pure pain. The pain of connection issues, players not paying attention, etc.

We’ve been playing online since the pandemic hit and honestly its been going well, we just finished TOA and may start Rime of the Frostmaiden soon! The only real issues we seem to have is people showing up on time and connection issues

Are you saying that you don’t normally role multiple nat 20s in a row and max damage?

Our online sessions actually have been going pretty well so far. Sure, there's some people talking over each other at times, but with Covid and our group being a few cities apart it's been going okay. (we're also a pretty honest group, there haven't really been any super-suspicious rolls so far).

The DM is still gonna suffer in every video...

I have playd a one shot before over discord. I was tempted to fudge the roles after rolling a nat 1 5 times in a row trying to use a bow. To hit a none moving target

I was wondering what would happen if instead of fudging your rolls high you instead fudged them low instead. Basically you do a Whil Wheaton every game

Wow this one is too true… been playing for a year online and I have experienced every single one of these things.. EXCEPT!! I think you forgot about the player who REFUSES TO TURN ON THEIR CAMERA!!

God, we have a player that always forgets that he's muted (he mutes himself because there's always noise in his house). It's his turn or whatever and it's just silence... We tell him it's his turn... Then he unmutes "god damn it, I was muted" Dude if you constantly mute yourself then that's the first thing you should check every time you go to speak!

people who fake their dice rolls ruin the game for there own gain they are awful

It is unfortunate that this is how we’ve been playing all this time, but it’s certainly a better alternative to getting hit by the ol “ray of sickness” if you know what I mean.

I hope someday a local pub sponsors OSQ, so he can make a Bar-Ad-Barian pun

I actually love playing online dnd.... but i also play without Dice, we use Beyond 20 for the rolls :D

*Oh no, it can't be, The Adbarian!!! Run, everybody RUN!!! Before he get's into your head!!*

Playing DND online without Roll20? The madlads!!!

I don't remember ordering vicious mockery for dinner tonight _cries in a corner_

As someone who only plays online d&d, I spend my days by my window, yearning for good Wi-Fi and wondering when my player who had to grab a charger 40 mins ago will come back

Woah, so many memories from my first ever dnd campaign, it was online. Ok, maybe not so many, we did like one session and after that everyone kept cancelling half an hour after the selected hour, so I guess it's kind of like a real dnd campaign...

I don't care if it's like this lol I just want to find a group to play even if it's online.

“Am I water bending, or am I 70% water?” Moving your body is as close as most people get to blood-bending.

Love seeing this on live streams 🤣🤣

wait... you're saying I am NOT the only one with those f*** online problems?!?!?! 😂🙈❤️🤗

Couple of relevant house rules I like to use as someone who’s been playing online since before the pandemic: -Mics stay on unless you have excessive background noise or someone walks in -Cameras are optional -Only the DM uses his own dice, everyone else rolls openly on Roll20, Discord, or Foundry. You can whisper roll to the DM if you feel it’s important -No drawing on the maps (this is the only one I can never enforce, why is there no way to revoke drawing privileges Roll20???) -The DM spent time preparing, so the least you can do is engage; give feedback if you’re not enjoying the games

And this is why we roll on a virtual tabletop or with dice cam :D

Weird, my mates and I had no issues... outside of time...

I cannot express how relatable this is to me over the last year! Brilliant video, loved it!

Actually when I first started DND it was over discord, the problems that we had were sometimes peeps showing up late or never showing up at all and thats kinda it, me myself i haven't cheated with the dice but idk about the other players but i trust they didn't, i also miss DND it's been a long while since I played it

I found your channel like... yesterday... and have watched every single skit and tiktok compilation lmao

players disconnecting is my biggest problem thanks for reminding me.

Ive been playing online for years, the mute thing still happens in our group. We just forget we're muted because we're eating, sneezing, or taking a break and forget to unmute.

I started playing D&D during the pandemic, so online is the only kind of play that I know... 😅 It's mostly fine, except for the occasional connection problem and sometimes the delay can make roleplaying awkward. However! We are finally going to play face to face for the first time in just about 3 weeks! I can't wait! ❤

Our group has a running joke that whenever I was describing a particularly dramatic or emotional scene, my voice would get garbled and impossible to understand. Screw you Skype, I don't miss you.

Honesty I can see this for many people's online games with random people. I play with a group of close friends and we just figured out a system that works so we don't have many of these issues. Discord tho can be frustrating at times, the music bots also are a pain.

I can't wait to start holding sessions in person again 😭

I met my current party through an internet game and we are nearing our 1 year it's been a blast and I love em so much

That's why I'm trying to get my groups back in person soon.

By doing DnD at discord, you can end up being moved for no reason to other vc with just you and the dm and make the rest of the party have a heart attack

Flashbacks to my online DND sessions....

With my group, like, nobody talks when we're online. Just did my first in person dnd session this week, and it was great, so I'm looking forward to others.

As someone who does this all the time, and has to record it, this is totally totally true. I love this so much!

As funny as this is I do have to say I’ve been playing with a group on discord for over a year now and we’ve have relatively few issues. We’re actually about to have our first in person session and I’m super excited! I guess the group you have is a big factor as well.

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The muted bit hit home hard. I've got one guy I play with (as a player amd as his GM) who regularly gets caught completely forgetting he's muted.

I'm glad for my sessions online xD I had problems with a flickering camera the last two times, but it's fixed now, and sometimes one of my players disconnects for a second, but we've never had anything too bad 🤧

As someone who is nearing the end of an almost-year-and-a-half campaign online, and has done many other campaigns online, OH BOY HOW ACCURATE MUCH OF THIS IS

Nailed it! In person is definitely better. Plus you can actually have more then one conversation going on at the same time.

I play multiple games with different groups online and have been since the pandemic began, and you honestly hit the nail pretty good on the head. The only things you missed were: 1: mic courtesy - someone will INEVITABLY be talking to their roommate, taking their dogs out, or eating chips or something, so everyone has to yell over them. The rest is pretty accurate - and 2: discord off-topic meme sharing during the game whenever the DM describes a situation or monster. Also how roll20 dice like to roll nothing above a 4 for the players. ¬¬

I've only ever done D&D online, and yes, this is exactly how it is, just add the random distractions that get the DM sidetracked and you have my sessions down perfectly

As someone who’s only ever played online (my group is spread over 4 timezones) this is especially funny. At one point the dm literally had to ban physical dice so he could see our rolls

This was very funny. You should be very proud of your performance.

That ad-barian is amazing

"Or I could be in a mimic INSIDE of a mimic!" *muffled screaming*

I feel that all. Especially the end with the one distracted player, that ends up being the worst.

I was in literally exact the same group one time. Thats too scary xD And Adbarian is killing it all the time!

This video hits me so much.

Everything except the dice rolling and messed up camera is exactly how it went with my practice sessions on Roll20 with my players.

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This video makes me glad I can play with my friends in person.

I am so happy my players (especially one *AHEM*) roll their dice on FoundryVTT, this way I can check their rolls.

Gods of D&D bless you for brightening up our days.

My whole quarantine and last Summer was literally just this.

I hear about these kinds of issues ALL THE TIME and how so many people refused to try online play (or did but bitched about it for a year) during this pandemic because of these exact problems. The thing though, is that I've been playing in an intercontinental online group for over 6 years now and NONE of these things are issues.... I mean yeah sometimes someone is on mute, and every so often someone's internet kicks out, these things certainly happen, but it's not like playing in person doesn't result in similar issues, like someone gets a phonecall and steps out, or just plays on their phone in general, or you're plagued by side conversations, etc. There are "problems" no matter how you play, we're all human afterall, but honestly after playing in an online group from vastly different time zones for quite a while without any of the issues that became main bitching points during this pandemic I really just believe these really only become problems when the people causing them simply aren't really trying to avoid/handle them. If your group actually cares about playing, for real, in an online setting almost every single one of the main issues can be avoided by simply caring enough about your game. Now someone who reads this might be thinking "you just implied that I don't care enough about my session because of some internet problems I had!" The answer is yes, if you continuously have internet problems to warrant crying about it as a reason to not play online then you can get better fucking internet. If it's not continuous, then stfu and deal with it when it happens.

The rolling the dice part and not being seen is such a power move that I hate it because it's happened to me

I'm currently running a campaign online through discord. Have to do it online because one player is in Egypt and another is in Hungary while the others are scattered throughout the U.S. It's going well though. Having lots of fun.

This gave me flashbacks to playing tabletop with my BF online when he lived in another country.

played D&D online once and I can relate 100% to this

As someone who ran two campaigns via zoom, this is accurate, including the WiFi trick lol!

As someone who only recently started playing dnd and doesn't have a group to play with irl, I feel this SO HARD

This is actually how I always play all the time, bc my main dnd Champaign was online :)

As someone who has only had the opportunity to run online... and only recently had an opportunity to run irl... this speaks to me on a whole other level

As someone who only plays D&D online this hits home really hard XD

This is incredibly accurate

I play DnD online actually, started a few months ago, started online. Our sets are in Tabletop Sim, character sheets on DnD Beyond, we use to dice roll in TTS but it broke so my one friend decided to make a dice rolling bot for our discord so that's what we use now.

We only really started playing when the pandemic hit. Always wanted to but the friends who were interested live several hundred km away. Then a VTT ad popped up on my instagram and I could kick myself for never having thought of playing online. Fortunately we're all MMO gamers so internet is good, voice chat fine with good mics and decent webcams. Can't wait to play face to face one day though

At the beginning of lockdown we tried to play dnd and it was just- confusion, miscommunication and awkward silences.

I run two campaigns online and this is exactly what it's like

And this is why I just taught my roommate how to play and DM so we did single player campaigns. No lag when you're in the same room.

Having done a lot of online and in-person play, they each have their own pros and cons and I'd never give up on either. You could come up with a list of "problems" just as big for either, but those problems don't matter because we love dnd enough to work through those problems. If your group isn't willing to do that with you, find a different one, it's tough but super possible.

That. Was. Awesome.

Minus the dice rolling, this is my group

We all lice really far apart and some of us board, and we couldn't deal with any more zoom calls, so we just do it over the phone. It's not ideal, but after a year we are used to it, and use things like online dice platforms and source book sharing

I actually got two nat 20's on disadvantage playing online (I got 3 20's in a row). I was the one having the hardest time believing it.

This is painfully accurate

Above VTT extension, I've spent hours creating proper maps, placing enemies etc, quite fun. Plus there is no way to cheat. DND Beyond was seriously so helpful

I actually have two people who get 20 at the best possible times, such as when making an item or attacking a fleeing enemy. One of them will at least say when they roll badly, but the other one always seems to roll 15 or higher.

We’ve been online since the pandemic. Discord for talking and roll20 for rolling and maps. I haven’t rolled actual dice for an actual session in so long. I can’t wait until we’re back in person. I need my clickity-clacks

That is one handsome mini ad-barian

As a group who has played DnD online for half a year. Discord bot help us a lot with this situation :D

Ad-Barian made my day again

I hate how accurate this is

The whole truth. I have never been a fan of pnp rpg online. maybe I'm old but the joy of playing it live

This video is sooo accurate to how it is doing it online! I’ll be the guy who’s internet always sucks when doing it:)

This is WAY too accurate.

I have personally only ever played online Edit: Also we use virtual dice so everybody can see it but even if we were to play actual dice I trust my fellow party members

Never ever had I a session like this, and I play only online...for years now. But yeah with this kind of experience I would hat to play online

The main difficulty for online D&D for my group is not being able to see when someone is about to speak, so you speak over each other more often. Granted, having a DM that has bought everything on dndbeyond with a plugin to have it sync to our VTT makes it very convenient. Just wish I could roll my pretty dice, though...