This optional role serves little functional purpose and is used primarily to separate Bot users from the real people in the server’s member list. If in doubt, don’t allow spectators at all, and rely on those water cooler discussions to fill in your friends of the party’s adventures. Nobody wants a heckler and putting too many eyes on your players could negatively affect their engagement and ability to RP. I do recommend caution, however, in allowing too many spectators, and be sure you know the people your inviting. Spectators can be a fun addition to the game, allowing others to see behind the veil and add to water cooler discussions out in the world. They will have permission to send messages in the general and random channels but will have at most read permissions in any other channel (and sometimes no permissions at all). Sometimes people want to sit in on a game and watch from the sidelines. This works well when used along side the first of the optional roles. If you have players who rotate in and out of games, you can grant and revoke this role as necessary. They will have access to the bulk of the server’s channels, certainly the ones required to play the game. You need Players to play a game, so anyone filling out a character sheet for your game should be plopped into this role. The other required role, this should once again be obvious. You don’t want too many people to have those admin permissions, so delegate them on a per-user basis if you need to at all. This is necessary if your game uses round robin GMs, or even GM assistants. That is reserved for you, the person who created the server. Now, a GM is not automatically an administrator. The last will allow them to talk over the Players in voice channels, which can be helpful when all your players would otherwise drown out the GM’s call for order. They will need access to everything the server has to offer, including unique permissions, private channels, and the “Priority Speaker” permission. Most games need someone to run them, and even those that don’t require a game master can benefit from someone organizing the players. The server template will include these optional roles, so if they aren’t necessary for you specific setup you can safely remove them. The most basic TTRPG server need only two roles, but there are several optional roles as well. Using roles will allow you to easily manage who has access to specific channels and provides a visual cue as to a member’s place within the server. Rolesīefore we can talk about the channels, we need to talk about roles. Most role and channel names should be self-explanatory, though, so if you want to just dive in, skip to the end of this article for the server template link. Most of this article is a description of the various roles and channels found within the server template, as well as justifications and some tips. This server isn’t specific to D&D and should be useful in all manner of tabletop RPGs, though certain aspects of the template may be more appropriate for certain styles of game. I wanted to share just how my server is set up, as well as provide a template that you can use to get your own campaign up and running in discord, in hopes that some of you will find it useful in running your own campaigns. While it can’t match the table, it has allowed us to maintain some semblance of a social life. My campaign’s discord server, which started out as a single channel to organize game nights and post relevant memes, evolved into a full-blown roleplay environment. I’ve been using Discord to supplement my D&D 5e game for well over a year now, and while it’s always been useful, it has become critical in the past months as COVID19 keeps my group from gathering in person. Read on for explanations of the channels and their purposes, as well as some tips about running a game via discord.
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