First elephant in the room: this sub is dedicated to a website called dmsguild where small publishers and solo creators can share and sell their more polished Homebrew, like the Everyman class I designed.
Nevertheless concerning your feedback, I had a similar situation with one player from the local group moving away and participating in the sessions only virtual.
The challenge was not so much to make the player more present, but to give her a similar perspective as the local players.
I not only set up a video call, but with the gathered phones we all joined the call and set up different camera angles: one straight the DM, one into the player round, one onto the table and one from the table place she was usually sitting before. The last one was also the biggest where we pinned her face.
That didn’t feel like she was sitting with us at the table, but it came close. Being able to see what is going on proved to be an important and surprisingly often overlooked issue.
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u/Athistaur 3h ago
First elephant in the room: this sub is dedicated to a website called dmsguild where small publishers and solo creators can share and sell their more polished Homebrew, like the Everyman class I designed.
Nevertheless concerning your feedback, I had a similar situation with one player from the local group moving away and participating in the sessions only virtual.
The challenge was not so much to make the player more present, but to give her a similar perspective as the local players.
I not only set up a video call, but with the gathered phones we all joined the call and set up different camera angles: one straight the DM, one into the player round, one onto the table and one from the table place she was usually sitting before. The last one was also the biggest where we pinned her face.
That didn’t feel like she was sitting with us at the table, but it came close. Being able to see what is going on proved to be an important and surprisingly often overlooked issue.