QuoteIt's interesting how players that can role-play in a role-playing game are often called "cosplayers/ren-faire/indie-RPG types who are into RPGing."

Yeah nope.
Role-playing is not the same as acting. Role-playing is creating decisions and actions of character in believable way considering who this person is, acting is well playing out those decisions in a way like in TV or theatre. You can be great acting and terrible role-playing, or great role-player without shed of acting - referring to your PC's action in third person's laconic manner.
And yes while it's perfectly acceptable to choose table where all people are good actors - it can also become quite toxic, when One True Wayist try to imply only good acting is good role-playing and try to demean and lessen players without acting chops. And those guysa re toxic shitlord and madonnas, and kill them with fire.

QuoteSo many of the players interrupt with comments or actions based on things their characters cannot possibly be aware of, or involved in. Face to Face you can "quiet chat" or hidden note things but in online sessions everyone hears everything and tries to respond to what they hear.  Both DMs and players need to be more conscious of this.

Exactly like on most real-life tables so...

Quote from: Mistwell on February 13, 2021, 11:30:38 AM
It works well. We have lots of role playing, and lots of combat, and lots of exploration.  All of it works smoothly, though I assume much of that is 7 years experience with it rather than being new to it this year.

Roll20 is definitely working a lot better for me the more I use it and get used to it. I'm finding it's brilliant for a multi-group sandbox campaign, very old school setup (I have 3 PC groups in a ca 50x60 mile campaign area, currently 16 players & 19 active PCs divided 8-8-3).  The way it stores locations makes re-use much easier than in tabletop, and it's very easy to have the right terrain prepped when an unexpected encounter happens.

I previously ran the end of Princes of the Apocalypse on Roll20, that seemed a waste of its merits by comparison.

Quote from: Altheus on February 13, 2021, 12:52:41 PM
She's good at costumes and can cosplay, posts on rpg topics too, what's not to like?

That she has Contrapoints in her channel recommendations? 

Naw, it's all fine by me; I'm not really interested in cosplay and she's not really my type (nice abs though) - I go more for the large breasted redheads - but her gaming advice seems solid, or at least worth considering.

Quote from: Wicked Woodpecker of West on February 13, 2021, 03:37:23 PM

QuoteIt's interesting how players that can role-play in a role-playing game are often called "cosplayers/ren-faire/indie-RPG types who are into RPGing."

Yeah nope.
Role-playing is not the same as acting. Role-playing is creating decisions and actions of character in believable way considering who this person is, acting is well playing out those decisions in a way like in TV or theatre. You can be great acting and terrible role-playing, or great role-player without shed of acting - referring to your PC's action in third person's laconic manner.
And yes while it's perfectly acceptable to choose table where all people are good actors - it can also become quite toxic, when One True Wayist try to imply only good acting is good role-playing and try to demean and lessen players without acting chops. And those guysa re toxic shitlord and madonnas, and kill them with fire.

QuoteSo many of the players interrupt with comments or actions based on things their characters cannot possibly be aware of, or involved in. Face to Face you can "quiet chat" or hidden note things but in online sessions everyone hears everything and tries to respond to what they hear.  Both DMs and players need to be more conscious of this.

Exactly like on most real-life tables so...

I wouldn't diss people who don't want to act at the game table, but I don't really want to play with them either.  I want to both roleplay and act and I want to play with folks who do the same.  It's not one-true-wayist to tell someone they're not a good fit for my game.

QuoteI wouldn't diss people who don't want to act at the game table, but I don't really want to play with them either.  I want to both roleplay and act and I want to play with folks who do the same.  It's not one-true-wayist to tell someone they're not a good fit for my game.

That's all fine - as long as you're not making public claims - oh it's not RPG if there's not this-and-that.
I can understand appeal of high-acting game, though being member of very mixed group, I probably value good conceptualism much higher.