Day 16 P is for Players

April 18, 2014
April 18, 2014

Players are the people who generate characters and role play those characters in the world presented by the DM or GM.

Without players, the work of a DM will never see the light of day.

A game can be run with a single player, but usually two or three is considered a small game. Many GM’s will not want to run games with more than 8 or 9 players at once. However, there are stories of some DM’s running games with a dozen players at once. Personally, I prefer being a player in games from one to six players. Larger than that seems unwieldy.

In the world of the internet and using Google+ and a Virtual Table Top (VTT), the number of players can be limited by the technology. In the campaign I am playing in we have the DM and seven players. We use Google+ and the Roll20 VTT. We do not use video to speed things up, so it is like a voice conference call. We use Roll20 for dice rolls, intitiative, and showing the position of the players. There is no map. This is very close to how I started playing D&D, so other than the seeing the reaction on other’s faces, is very much like an in-person game.

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