I've never played any ttrpg online before and I'm wondering how to set it up. It's not the tech I dont get, it's the people. It seems the scene for online OSR play is pretty dead.

How to I join or start a solid online group?

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The crowdfunder for a run of zines starts 2/10/24, this Saturday. The goal is a measly dang $600!

Has anyone run a completely randomly generated session before? Random as in, not a handful of prepared encounters the PCs can seek out, but random as in every encounter is generated on the fly such that not even the DM knows what's going to happen.

There are a whole bunch of random generators on donjon, and I figured I could probably open a bunch of them in different tabs and roll them when I need...

But is this style of play even fun? And is it an effective use of our 8 hours a month? (It sounds fun to me; I have till January to figure out if I can pull it off though lol)

"AFTERWORD

It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. Never hold to the letter written, nor allow some barracks room lawyer to force quotations from the rule book upon you, if it goes against the obvious intent of the game. As you hew the line with respect to conformity to major systems and uniformity of play in general, also be certain the game is mastered by you and not by your players. Within the broad parameters given in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons volumes, you are creator and final arbiter. By ordering things as they should be, the game as a whole first, your campaign next, and your participants thereafter, You will be playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as it was meant to be. May you find as much pleasure in so doing as the rest of us do!"

Dungeon Master's Guide, First Edition, p. 230

Related: this video is a reaction to an X post by Jeffro Johnson.

"These People are Accusing Gygax of Being a Lying Grifter" Kasimir Urbanski - RPGPundit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7uPip720Fo