Short one tonight. Got to play some Dungeons & Dragons tonight with my group. I’m normally the DM but another player has been running a short adventure the past couple of sessions because there’s a narrative break in my game. He’s doing a great job! It’s a lot of fun. We had some technical issues, but those are not anyone’s fault.
The technical part is because we play online, through Discord, and using D&D Beyond for character sheets and Owlbear Rodeo for maps and pictures. First issue was, I couldn’t connect to voice and video chat in Discord, even though everythine else network-wise worked. I could chat in Discord, MS Teams worked for video (I had a job interview earlier in the day using Teams, worked great.) The Discord error is “RTC connecting” and “No route” over and over again. Same issue if I’m on my home network, regardless of the computer or operating system. Rebooted everyting (Discord, my computers, my router), no joy. Phone works on the cellular network fine, but not on my home network (Xfinity.) Uninstalled Discord (using Revo Uninstaller) and reinstalled; no joy.
Temporary fix is using VPN software, which absolutely 100% points to it being a problem with Xfinity. Joy. I’ll deal with them tomorrow.
Other technical issues included problems using commands in Avrae, the D&D combat bot. Again, just minor issues.
Overall, our group (five 2nd level 5E characters) managed to take down a cloaker at full strength, and my gothy warlock got the killing blow! And then we explored the upper levels of a sunken citadel, found a ghostly librarian, and successfully answered three riddles to get a piece of the amulet we need to lift a curse. It’s kind of a whole thing, y’know?
We found an amazing sword and a magic book nobody can read. Also there was a lot of banter. I particularly liked when the barbarian kicked down a door so hard it flew across the room and it exploded into spliters (that’s not the fun part) and claimed he was being stealthy (that was the fun part.)
I’m so glad for my D&D group. So much fun to play with, and in D&D, problems are fairly easily solved. Unlike, say, real life. Haha sigh.