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Agreed! Edit: Pages are less preferred than continuous scrolling too.
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Ok, phones aren't ideal - especially in the game screen. I'm going to try to keep things as phone friendly as possible - not using the map to convey critical information I think needs to be a rule! The iOS app on ipads is completely non functional.
Just trying to send a PM and it's telling me I'm not authorized... I wonder if that's because I'm not at  Pro, or Plus level or something
I'm really wondering if we would be better served to have the actual game posts on a different site, for the reasons I've already brought up. The interface here is slightly frustrating - and especially having to roll in an entirely different space feels cumbersome. Not sure if you've looked at it yet, but that site I mentioned ( <a href="https://www.rolegate.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rolegate.com/</a> )&nbsp;does support that, as well as handling mobile interfaces, and I think would flow much better. It's one I was looking at setting up a play by forum game before I joined up with you. It does have other issues, and I'm sure there are other sites that would do fine as well. Perhaps some combination of Roll 20, for hosting the character sheet and maps, and then a different forum site for hosting the game flow would be a good solution? Just putting it out there for consideration...
I did have a look at it, I can't get my head around the monetization, What are all the different currencies for, do I really need to pay £40 a month just to have us able to have custom avatars etc.
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If people have better suggestions, I'm open to it - but my limit is £10 a month, I don't want to trade one set of compromises for another - it has to be clearly better - and I'll not consider a solution that gives an unpaid volunteer moderator the ability to destroy the game on a whim. Another alternative that I used to run games on before the susd forum existed was storium, which I might go back to and have a look at. Storium has turned itself fully into it's own game, it would be the wrong tool to try to run Pendragon on.
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<a href="https://www.rolegate.com/pendragon-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.rolegate.com/pendragon-2</a> - If you want to nose around the features -&nbsp; I'll Pm the password to you
As far as I was aware, when I was poking around in it, there was nothing that the paid features added that was really needed.. Can you PM me the password to your setup?
Got it - and I tried posting over there what I had over here...
So, my preliminary thoughts are - firstly we've got everyone acclimatised to roll 20 - what happens here for at least this year is canon, what happens there is testing it out for future years. That said: (vs Roll20) Positives I like the text focused features - language is fun, but a bit of a gimmick, I like it, but I can't imagine from your end it looks particularly immersive - when I recreate languages myself, I do take some effort to ensure it's somewhat in keeping with the world. I like that the narrator features and the character speech are all inline, as are dice rolls. The page autorefreshes without needing a browser extension. (I don't recommend using a browser extension to autorefresh, it can look like a DOS attack it set too frequently, or increase the amount of captia's you get served as you quite rightly start to look less human to servers) Negatives No visuals, handouts, documents etc - unless you pay the aforementioned £40 a month, you don't even get avatars - I know you can have the included library, but so few of them are suitable for us, we would have only a handful to choose between each and of course we would all need to pay and even then only get 1 new avatar a month that someone else designs on our behalf. Pictures in text, maps etc are out. I can't see a way to have a new thread - that's one of the biggest upgrades for me at least, coming to roll20, we no longer have forum mates to worry about bothering so can freely spawn additional threads - a thread per year, why not. In that system, it looks, from the games I've browsed, to be one long column of text.
Will, I know we were offered an alternative home. Is that something you’ve considered?
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I may have missed that - Rogers? If there's one person I would trust it would be them
Yep. I know I paraphrased all messages, but RogerBW. Have a look.
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What about a tool like Slack? You can have unlimited threads, a chosen avatar, documents stored and easily referenced. Only thing is that it doesn't have dice rolls Edit - I tell a lie, it looks like you CAN have dice rolls.&nbsp; Here's an article on using it for roleplaying.&nbsp; <a href="https://medium.com/@wfnl/why-slack-is-great-for-text-based-role-playing-games-3ac158a33896" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@wfnl/why-slack-is-great-for-text-based-role-playing-games-3ac158a33896</a> &nbsp;and&nbsp; <a href="https://medium.com/@dylanreed/tabletop-role-playing-games-for-slack-ers-d220a9d615bd" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@dylanreed/tabletop-role-playing-games-for-slack-ers-d220a9d615bd</a>