Hello everybody

We started playing some years ago with Age of Rebellion, completed a story arc around Onderon (following the beginner adventure) and then closed Season 1.
Few months later we started Season 2 of our campaign, featuring a new player and flashying most of the core plot of the campaign (some lost jedi diaries from 4000 BBY, a dark sith world-devasting machine and two forgotten sisters princesses raised up as a smuggler and her technician). We concluded this Season 2 in summer 2017 with a climatic story arc half cliffhanger and we decided to stop a bit for "IRL reasons", and planning on starting again after Christmas and Ep VIII

And here we are, at the moment still on hyatus. For the same irl reason, it's difficult at the moment to gather around table so one fellow player proposed to start playing via voice chat. Just to try if we can at least going forward with the campaign

We found this discord bot that could help us to play; i did'nt tested yet but i see the feedback on the forum and i'm pretty confidant it would help us a lot.

I already use this char generator to keep track of PC'sheets and more important NPC and spaceship and like (but don't think my player are using it too... so at the moment is just a GM tool)

What do i need now is
- some sort of electronic sheet for players and me, something who could help us track the stats, and equip, and easily accessed to everyone so i can see the change
- a virtual game table to gather maps, pictures, token for PC and NPC to keep track of wound status, etc.

Did you have something to advice for?

In the past i used Roll20 for another game (savage world, btw) so i know how's easy to get distracted and how's important to keep attention, and i found very distracting having to see for several different resources so having a single place to gather everything you need for a virtual game table (pictures to see how the NPC'ship looks like, for example, or a map for encounters, keep track of who's in the room and how many stormtroopers are guarding the palace entrance) and of course having a nice place for the char sheet only a button away from the "table" is a good thing

I see in Roll20 there are one electronic sheet and some component but they requires premium account because they come with added dice roller, while i'm planning on using SkyJedi's discord chat bot for dice rolling (also: did'nt whant to pay for roll20 premium ? ) so i'm guessing if someone else used it, maybe in conjunction with Skyjedi's discord and/or OggDude's char generator, to have a nice gaming environment. Or if you have to advice some alternatives for it...

Ty for you help, this could save my long lost campaign start again...

Swsheets.com+discord+dice roller bots

For a game table i use posted pictures and theater of the mind.

TheShard is absolutely correct. You don't need much but SWSheets does help. With my game on Discord, I would just have everyone send me the character generator XML file for their character when they made major XP advancements so I had the same sheets that they had in front of me. I set up two primary channels in Discord which is "In Session Voice" and "In Session Chat". We did all dice rolling in the Chat channel and I could post images of environments, maps, NPCs, etc as needed.

I also set up a channel for a game log that I would update (not every week) to remind the characters of who they had met and what they had done.

I've run through Discord as well and the downfall for me was having to switch from the videochat window to the chatroom to use the dicebot. It was a minor annoyance but it kept breaking the flow. Perhaps with more practice the action would be more fluid. I feel like there's a missing "whiteboard" app integration with discord to allow quick sketches and drawing on maps - while Theater of the Mind is often great, sometimes a map helps when placing is getting complicated.

For pictures I used links from a cloud share so uploads weren't chewing up my bandwidth and breaking up videochat - but that is not something that that will be fixed with tools, it's just my simple country internet being slow.

SWSheets is great, no doubt, but the author has been wanting to pass the torch and thus, it's no longer updated. This isn't to say it's bug ridden, there's just some manual work to be done to finish a character built from books that weren't out at the time the tool was created.

I've also looked at Fantasy Grounds, Tabletop Simulator, and paid Roll20 and found that while a lot of hard work went into bending these tools to use the custom dice, there's still a lot of work for the GM and users to do to be able to use them and I want my solution to be more turnkey. I also see a number of new alternatives emerging but as yet I haven't come across one that meets my needs.

While the aforementioned have tight integration with the more popular RPG lines, it's just not there yet for these and this is likely due in part to the whole "digital content" fiasco that prevents PDF forms of the books and what have you. Hopefully this saves you some money and time if you were considering pursuing those options.

Just use oggdudes and save the xml to like drop ox or google d4ive.

Use roll20 or fantasy grounds for maps

https://dice.owenmead.com/

Do folks not use Owen Mead's dice roller anymore? That dude rules, and is on the boards here.

1 hour ago, BrickSteelhead said:

https://dice.owenmead.com/

Do folks not use Owen Mead's dice roller anymore? That dude rules, and is on the boards here.

We use it to keep track of Destiny Points.

3 hours ago, BrickSteelhead said:

https://dice.owenmead.com/

Do folks not use Owen Mead's dice roller anymore? That dude rules, and is on the boards here.

It works great, and is in fact the ancestor of skyjedi's dice roller. The log of rolls is nice, as it allows a player to present an audit trail for crafting while the GM isn't sitting there looking. Skyjedi is also on these forums and does the discord bot, and many people really like those tools.

I also like this one: http://orokos.com/roll/