Question: table top feel games

As a DM have you allowed your players to use paper or PDF sheets for the games you run. Also do you allow real dice to be rolled behind their screen? As a player, have you played games on here allowing you to use paper sheets or pdf sheets? If so, how has your experience changed playing these games vice versa using Roll20 sheets and dice?

With my traditional group from college, who now live in 4 timezones, we've played with paper character sheets and each having their own dice.  It's worked just fine for us.  Generally, we're more focused on a good story and if someone "accidentally" misreports what they rolled, it doesn't break our enjoyment.  Particularly some of our players are not so tech savvy and getting them on the computer is hard enough, so having the physical aspects they are used to is easier. I think it all just comes down to "use what you need to in order to have a good time," which we always do regardless. =D

I've had too much experience with "cheaters" in face-to-face games to allow dice rolls to be 'off-screen'.  I rarely even make DM only rolls (partly because it''s fun to have the players wondering what that 20 I just rolled means.  But it really is a matter for you and your group to decide.  Don't let the mechanics and rules get in the way of your fun.

Me and my group enjoys the gamey parts of roleplayinggames far too much to not use the roll20 dice function. We do use paper character sheets however.

My game groups do everything within Roll20. There's certainly no reason why dice rolls cannot be made using Roll20, the dice-roller application couldn't be more simple. And if you build your own macros, that just speeds things up even more. Everyone also uses character sheets within Roll20, although they're not the ones that you can import into your campaign. In my games, they're simple player handouts with various tables, which the owning player can edit. They also have a "Party Treasure" handout, which everyone can see and edit. This is where they keep track of the loot they find, until they have time to divide it up. Then it gets deleted from the party treasure handout and added to the owning player's character sheet.