Talk window

Well, after weeks of fiddling with d20Pro, then creating NPCs and maps, I ran my first game on Monday night, dipping my feet in the shallow end with a short adventure and two players. We decided to give the game a trial run before buying the licenses.

How did it go? Well, I bought my Judge license first thing yesterday, if that's any indication of how successful it was. My players all had a great time, too.

But I do have a question... why does the Talk window go away after I use it? Whenever I want to have an in-character conversation, I have to keep pressing the T key to bring up the Talk window. Is there any way to keep it from disappearing? I love how it has different options aside from the just "say" and how it clearly differentiates between OOC chatter and IC conversations in the game log, but I really wish I could keep that Talk window on screen at all times. Or maybe I'm just too talkative as a DM.

 

Thanks, Tharck, that does help! Keeping my fingers on the keyboard does make the process go a lot faster. One of my players also said she kept multiple talk windows open, but I don't have quite as much real estate in my Decision window to do that with other things going on as a DM.

 

We actually used Mumble for voice chat, which worked really well, but we decided to keep the voice chat for OOC use only. It was, of course, used for the usual random off subject chatter that dominates the first half hour of a game. But we also used it for descriptions and questions. This was especially helpful because one of the players isn't very familiar with the d20 system, so it was easier to handle questions and clarify things over voice rather than typing things out.

We liked using character talk in d20Pro for IC conversations because it keeps a log (always handy for writing character journals later) and there's a clear distinction of which character is talking, which you don't get using the regular chat in the game log. That's not a necessary distinction when there's just one player controlling one character, but when I have multiple NPCs engaged in a conversation, it helps a lot.