Hello Everyone. LFM.
Hi all, I just started our SORC Lobbies and we’re currently looking for beta testers to help us with this feature. There’s a demo link included in this thread. SORC’s Basic Rules, written by our friend Kaida are also linked below! If you’re interested in helping us with this portion of the beta, please dm me. This is my side of the game’s development and with the scheduled launch not much further than a year away, we’re trying to get this part started! Are you in?
Here’s a rundown on the lobbies, not to be confused with private rooms - Lobbies are for recruitment and Private Rooms begin once the campaign is full. Private rooms have many tools including digital dice GMs lock when not being used and unlock when needed. VTT support tools, Maps with real coordinates and map tools, each map from home will be different than the next lobby’s map, pdf versions of books and much more. Each host of a lobby chooses their own theme, with audio included. There are three unlocked themes, one without audio and two with, and others require community points and/or achievements to unlock. The lobbies are designed to fill in one or two spots of people missing from campaigns from home and at the actual table, but as long as one person has the box set, he or she can run their campaign completely remotely and that’s where Fellowships come in. Fellows are basically the same thing as a friends list and are made up of people you’ve learned to trust and have developed a fellowship with.
For more information on lobby features, you can read the marquee displayed in the video.
This is early in development, and for those who watch the video demo, you’ll have to excuse Van’s typos, he’s an Ogre. If anyone has played a TTRPG using Discord, it’s similar, only the servers are devoted to not only SORC, But TTRPG sessions in general, offering many tools to make the recruitment and gaming process run as smooth as possible.
Taken from our website:
“Campaign Lobbies
Join or host live SORC sessions online. Creating a lobby requires a valid box set code. Joining is open to all assessed members.
Who Can Create
Lobby creation requires a valid SORC box set code and a passing assessment. Admins and Owners can create lobbies without a code.
Who Can Join
Any assessed player can join open lobbies. No box set required to participate. Civilians must complete the Role Assessment first.
Lobbies vs. Rooms
Lobbies are recruiting hubs - text chat and party assembly only.
Private Campaign Rooms are launched from lobbies by the GM. They include voice, dice, and full session tools.
Room Tools
Campaign rooms give GMs voice chat, live dice (D4, D6, D100), loot tables, compendium access, and character sheet integration. Each campaign shares the same Essentia world coordinates.”
There’s much more on online campaign support at our website, but we’re not promoting that here. We are asking for beta testers to test this feature however, so again, if you’re interested we welcome you in!
- Corbett