On 22/7/25 02:00, Christopher Sean Hilton - chris at vindaloo.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Thanks for your great article on Obsidian. I touched on the fact that I wrote a similar
> system, I didn't know about Obsidian at the time, for managing my own cambpaign notes.
>
>    **Q:** _I do wonder how many people are doing a campaign "remotely"?_
>
> By _"remotely"_ I mean that the players "meet" in Discord, Slack, Zoom, or some other video
> conferencing app. I'm in my early sixties and today, my players all live very far
> apart. Getting together in person would be difficult.
>
>

Well, in my case, my current gaming group has been remote for over 10 years.

Herr Sweep and Eddles were other members of a previous gaming group when
I lived down their way, while I first met Wombat and Easy Frag at a
FLGS, having moved a few hundred km in the meantime.  Rather difficult
to get everyone together for a face to face session.

We started with Skype calls (Discord hadn't been launched yet) in 2014,
switching over to Discord sometime before the pandemic (I _think_
2017).  We use two dice bots (to ensure at least one is available during
game time), don't bother with maps or video, and generally play whatever
somebody's willing to run.

I tend to run few, long-running, games (such as Parental Advisory, and
my current GURPS-powered early-cyberpunk game - I do want to return to
the Advisoryverse, but powered by GURPS this time, rather than the
multi-edition-mashup that Parental evolved into), as does Eddles, while
Herr Sweep runs short, almost pick-up, games (only running for a few
sessions).  Easy Frag and Wombat are in the middle of those two extremes.

Alex
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