Playing the format

Nowadays, most of my gaming is online. In part, this is a practical decision. A lot of the friends I have who are interested in the same sorts of games I am are scattered across the world, so doing things in person is very infeasible. It’s also a matter of preference of social dynamic – I’m a lot more timid in person than online, and find the distance of a computer to help make a lot of interactions more comfortable. Plus, even today, the echoes of the Covid-19 pandemic pushed some of the in-person groups I had online, and they’ve stayed that way since. There’s a lot of tools out there for playing online. If you go to the right places, and everyone has access to a microphone, you can get an experience close to what an actual tabletop would be like. Virtual tabletops (VTTs) abound, providing a shared battle grid for games that need that sort of thing, and they can have electronic conveniences like rules reference or automatic calculations of complex dice mechanics built in. Most RPGs…