Tools for playing TOR online

[Streicher]

Hi all,

I am planning to start an online game round of TOR with two friends - and me being the LM.
I have seen various quite cool masks, tools, overlay/display options etc. of TOR rounds on YouTube. As I am not a programmer and I know that many of you play TOR online, I was wondering if you can point me to the neccessary tools?
Basically, here is what I would like to do (using a MacBook):

- show scenic images to everybody
- show the player character images and their specific travel roles, respectively combat stances
- play music (directly through my computer and not on the stereo in my room)
- incorporate a dice app so everybody sees all dice rolls

Could that all be done via SKYPE by sharing my screen and a music program?
How can dice rolls, combat stances or an interactive map be made visible for all players?

Thanks in advance for your insights!
Cheers,


Streicher

[zedturtle]

You'll want some sort of facilitation site, like Roll20, more likely than not.

Here's a setup guide by a user here: http://ringen.squarespace.com/loremaste ... or-roll-20

And here's the wiki for The One Ring here: https://wiki.roll20.net/The_One_Ring

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Now, to be perfectly honest, I don't use Roll20 or any of its competitors, doing instead Play-by-Post, which is much slower but allows me to update whenever I'm able to, allows me to get a little bit of play in almost every day, and means that my players don't have to deal with all the distractions that turn a 20-minute post into something that takes 2 hours to put together (admittedly, it could have been 20 minutes... if I had more self-discipline and less external distractions from kids and what-not).

I'm sure someone will be along shortly that does use those types of sites soon enough.

[Wbweather]

I've been using Fantasy Grounds to play for nearly 2 years now. It would be a pain to set up, except that Valarian has put together a nice ruleset for TOR. This lets you do all the rolls, post images and run the game easily. I purchased an ultimate licence, which is fairly pricey but allows players to play for free using the demo software. I know they have a subscription model, but I don't know the details for that.

We use Teamspeak for voice chat and there is a plugin that allows you to play mp3 files over the Teamspeak client. Many people use Google Hangouts. I don't know about putting audio through that. It might be possible.