Hello folks I'm fifty-six, and those who know me from HPR will remember I am totally blind, although I have not always been so.
I last played Dungeons & Dragons over forty years ago when I was at school, at about age fifteen. Recently I have been doing loads of reading and research into the latest edition of D&D, the fifth edition. I now have a burning desire to play again, perhaps as the DM. Part of this is because I have been working with a pair of friends who have taken over the local village pub and I want to help them succeed in difficult times. If I can get a D&D group together we could meet at the pub and play a socially distanced game of D&D, with masks if desired. Of course it could also be either on Zoom or Jitsi. So, how do I DM when I can't see? I can't draw or access visual maps of course. So this will have to be more 'theatre of the mind' stuff than usual I guess. I have listened to some of Klaatu's shows on RPGs and they just make me foam at the mouth even more to get this moving. I'm also making an audible poly dice roller out of an Arduino and a speakjet shield. By listening to the 'Critical Role' podcast I have found out about dndbeyond.com, which will make it possible for me to access stats and other materials online from either a laptop or my iPad while I DM. But there has to be some cross-over between me who can't see, and the players who can. Anybody got any wisdom to impart. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery https://cromarty.github.io/ http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ http://www.raspberryvi.org/ _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
