It has everything we need in a single application to play D&D online.The text chat is excellent and allows image uploading.It has excellent support for D&D including the Avrae discord bot.It has clients for PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, and web-browsers.With so many solutions out there, why choose Discord as our platform for playing D&D online? Here are a few reasons: Recommend players mute their mics when it's not their turn or use "push to talk" to avoid cross-talk.Most important is that you're playing D&D. Let players use whatever tools they're comfortable with.Consider Owlbear Rodeo for a light-weight no-frills virtual battle map.Try a text-based battle map to augment Theater of the Mind combat with relative positions of characters and monsters in combat in your Discord text channel.Try an augmented " theater of the mind" style of combat by taking screenshots of dungeon rooms and locations and pasting them to a dedicated "maps and handouts" channel.Use the D&D Beyond campaign log to share dice rolls between you and your players.Watch Ginny Di's video on online D&D table etiquette and pass it along to your players.
Use my Discord D&D game template to set up your own D&D-focused Discord server.Sign up for Discord if you haven't already.Here's a quick checklist for getting Discord server set up to play D&D with D&D Beyond: If you enjoy this article, check out Sly Flourish's bestselling books, weekly newsletter, YouTube videos, twice-weekly podcast, and fan-supported Patreon, all offering tips to help you run awesome D&D games. If you prefer a video, here's my Youtube video on playing D&D on Discord. While there are many ways to play D&D online, today we'll focus on one single path: playing D&D over Discord.
It is ever important that, whether we do so in person or online, we connect and spend time with family and friends and there's no better way to do that than playing D&D. Even as we crawl out of our holes into the bright shining light of the world once more, many of us still find great value in playing D&D online. The pandemic of 2020 / 2021 taught many of us the value of playing D&D online. New to Sly Flourish? Start Here! Play D&D Over Discord