When you select your character or their animal companion/drone you can see that name as your player icon and that is the name writing in the chat (picture below) Then go to the chat window and all the way to the bottom below the text window you see this ”As” and dropdown selection. If you have a picture of your character, add it to your character sheet. What is great with roll20 + voice chat is that you can have your character’s name and picture show to everyone all the time! You just need to do some little adjustments before the game. Role-playing allows characters to interact with each other and create a common dynamic. It’s more about what the characters are like and what happens behind their actions. Role-playing games involve not only moving characters and rolling dice, but also role-playing. What you need next is a way to get to the next level of gaming. Maybe using the Roll20 guides or talking to your friends.

Let’s say that you got a game in roll20, someone made it for you or you learned to do it yourself and you managed to create a character there as well. There are also some other online gaming platforms that work quite nicely instead of Roll20. It includes character sheets for the most common table role-playing games and handy dice rolls. Roll20 is a website with tools specifically for table-top role-playing. A convenient combination has been voice communication between participants on Discord and playing through Roll20. Those are not enough for my gaming people so let’s talk about some bigger setups. Minimum gaming equipment needed is a voice connection or a place to write a text-based RPG. Virtual gaming table, or VTT, allows players from all over Finland (or the world) to participate in the same game. Traditionally, tabletop roleplaying games are played together in a group around a table, but as technology has advanced, the remote play has slowly become more common. Now let’s talk about online tabletop gaming for a moment! 👋

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