Seems popular with da kids these days. I joined the OSR one for a bit but didn't find much of interest. Apparently some are using it for PbP and they are working on a video component.

Quote from: Voros;980974Seems popular with da kids these days. I joined the OSR one for a bit but didn't find much of interest. Apparently some are using it for PbP and they are working on a video component.

I love Discord!
I played in an Unknown Armies campaign that finished up just recently. I was also running a Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaign a while back.

Discord features a lot more customization than Roll20. You don't have dice rolling functionality out-of-the-box, but you can get dice rollers by adding bots to your chat. There are hundreds of bots to choose from with all kinds of features.

How do you add bots?

We use it for voice and text in our DCC group... instead of Roll20's voice/video. Seems to work well. I wasn't aware there was more to it.

Could be handy, my mate keeps getting sent to Asia so a decent chat service could be good to have.
*skype never holds up

Quote from: Biscuitician;980991How do you add bots?

Make sure you have your account and your server set up.

Go to this page, look over this list, and pick out one or more bots you like.
https://www.carbonitex.net/Discord/bots
(You can find bots elsewhere, but this is the largest and most complete collection there is.)

Add the bot to your server, and approve permissions.

Here's an instructional video:
https://youtu.be/2YO96GFBSLw


I was using RoboNitori on my LotFP server.

Must check this out... I usually use Skype but it can be a bit unpredictable at times.

Discord came out a couple of years ago and has shot up to the number one choice of VoIP by video gamers, but it has three things against it.

1. It's closed source.

2. It has no clear way to make money.  It has almost 50 million users, but is completely free.  They sell an optional $5 per month service for stickers and an increased uploading cap, but how many use it?  Right now, it's operating at a loss with venture capital, but sooner or later that's going to run out as they will be expected to start gaining money.

Which potentially brings me to my final point:

3. Discord's privacy policy gives it the right to record and store absolutely anything and everything you transmit.  Now, whether or not they actually do that or do anything with the data they store, I have no idea.  But the risk is there, especially once their venture capital inevitably runs dry.

No.  I much prefer Mumble.  It's completely open source, it uses the exact same audio codec as Discord, and people get to run their own private servers.

Quote from: Voros;980974Seems popular with da kids these days. I joined the OSR one for a bit but didn't find much of interest. Apparently some are using it for PbP and they are working on a video component.

Works great with excellent voice quality. You could download a standalone app for windows but it also operates through the browsers. The nice thing is that you can setup multiple voice and text channels and upload images and files.

I use Hangouts for my gaming sessions right now (plus Roll20 for the actual dice rolling). Is this so much better that I would abandon the consistently good performance Google offers me right now?

Quote from: Cellador;981102I use Hangouts for my gaming sessions right now (plus Roll20 for the actual dice rolling). Is this so much better that I would abandon the consistently good performance Google offers me right now?

Hangouts is better than Skype. Discord is better than Hangouts. But.... since we are talking about the Internet and the fact your route may be different than mine to the different servers your mileage may vary. The one thing discord has is a better sense of being a place where you congregate with your friends to chat and share. Not just voice but images, files, and video. But then again it not as organized as a campaign wiki site or even what Roll20 has.

Fasa Games has recently started an official Discord server (multiple chat and voice channels for the games).

https://discordapp.com/channels/328545846935158785

Lots of great Q&A in the Earthdawn channel as well.

https://discordapp.com/channels/328545846935158785/328545930057875457

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but Discord is still a relevant social media platform and I think I missed this thread first time around. I have three servers that I sometimes visit. One is for Mythweavers where I have had the best Play by Post RPG experiences. Another is the server for Fantasy Grounds, since I use that software. The other is my local Pokemon Go group. Because of that game, I went from being functionally disabled (though I am still legally), to being able to walk 6-10 kilometers a day without breaking a sweat, and outworking all my coworkers in a skilled labour (front end bakery) job. So I play the damn thing every single day, even when it sucks, because it tracks my walking just as good as Fitbit, and even better because I understand the method it uses to track distance, so I can adjust my walking habits to maximize accuracy. Sorry for the tangent, I may or may not be drinking tonight.

If this place had a server, I'd probably follow it. It's a good place to chat and you can customize rooms for different topics. If I were to run a game online, I might use Fantasy Grounds (my licence means players only need the demo version) in conjunction with Discord because it can manage text chat (which I prefer especially for games that I would like to log) as well as voice chat. And of course the bots with dice rollers if you want to go with the option of running your game completely in Discord. That is totally possible. You can make an interactive map on Google Drive and I think if your players have a Google account you can give them permission to edit the document, which means they can move their character tokens on their turn. So if you're gaming on the cheap it's a good way to go. Even if you're not gaming on the cheap, it's still a good place to do your chat and voice chat.

Discord is the best of the messaging clients out today.

I didn't even know what it was until this thread.

I'm still rather leery of online games based on my experiences to date at attempting them.