Psychopomp
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So, by virtue of a series of coincidences, my gaming group of almost 20 years all moved out of town within the same year. Including myself. Thanks to finishing up grad school, the job search, and getting settled into a new city, it's been around two years since I last ran a game. I'm starting to feel the withdrawal.
I've researched the various VTT options, and it seems like what I want is Roll20 with Discord for audio/video. I run mostly systems more suited to theater of the mind play (Exalted, FFG Star Wars, Genesys, to name a few) but it seems that some good mood setting still images can occupy the screen during such scenes. I think I've got a handle on what I want to run and I've done my homework on the methodology.
But I'm still daunted. Something psychological seems to be holding me back, as this seems like a giant change in play style. Sometimes, the hardest part of eating an elephant is figuring out where to make that first bite, y'know?
Has anyone here gone through the same experience? Does anyone have any advice to share, maybe some pointers on what I could do to get over this hurdle? I'd appreciate insights from other game masters who had to make the same leap.
I've researched the various VTT options, and it seems like what I want is Roll20 with Discord for audio/video. I run mostly systems more suited to theater of the mind play (Exalted, FFG Star Wars, Genesys, to name a few) but it seems that some good mood setting still images can occupy the screen during such scenes. I think I've got a handle on what I want to run and I've done my homework on the methodology.
But I'm still daunted. Something psychological seems to be holding me back, as this seems like a giant change in play style. Sometimes, the hardest part of eating an elephant is figuring out where to make that first bite, y'know?
Has anyone here gone through the same experience? Does anyone have any advice to share, maybe some pointers on what I could do to get over this hurdle? I'd appreciate insights from other game masters who had to make the same leap.