Hi there first time post looking for a little advice.
A friend of mine set up an online game using the new 2nd Edition rules but has come up against a stumbling block that might derail the whole thing if he can't work out how to get round a certain issue.
Basically his problem is the shot tracker, round the table this is not a big issue as everyone can see where in the initiative line up they are and when next to take their actions.
Online he's finding this a big problem for the players and controlling / recording and letting everyone know where they are on the tracker.
I was just wondering if anyone had a simple and quick suggestion or do we just accept that although this is a fantastic game it just doesn't irk well for online gaming.
Last time I ran a game over the internet I used Roll20 + a Google Hangout, and in Roll20 you could make up a shot counter "map" and place NPC tokens on it, and move them around for each shot.
1/ create a "google drawings" document in google docs
2/ upload a picture of the shot tracker (most pdf viewers allow you to take a page and save it as a picture file) into the document
3/ Share this document with the players
4/ create shapes in the document, one for each player, npc, and horde of mooks (change the shapes, write the names in the shape, whatever)
I've been prepping for a FS2 online game using Roll20. As a part of my prep work I've been toying around with the Dice Roller commands. Here are a few that I've discovered that can be used with FS2. Type the command within the "quotes", don't include the quotes in your command.
Initiative roll: "/r 1d6"
Closed roll: "/r 1d6 + -1*1d6"
Open roll with two dice and exploding '6s': "/r 1d6! + -1*1d6!"
EDIT: I just tested the above commands with Discord using the Sidekick bot and they work as exactly as written with expected results.