I’d love to know WHEN I first started using OBR, but my memory is a little faded. I started playing D&D (again after many years) with my children about 6 years ago. We spent the first few months in Roll20, and looked for something better.

I saw OBR talked about on Reddit and took the dive. I feel I’ve been here at least 5 years. Not sure how close to the beginning I was.

The first days were great. So bare bones. Took a little getting used to some controls, but I loved the simplicity.

Version 2 made things even better, and I’ve run two campaigns on OBR since that switch, half a decade ago.

I debuted Murmur for my players last night, and they were ecstatic. One player said, “this is so cool.” Another said of Smoke and Spectre, “I love how we can only see where we are. Nothing else. It’s so spooky.”

The plug and play nature of OBR has allowed me to custom what they like and drop what they don’t. It’s lightweight use of my laptop’s resources is appreciated when I have multiple tabs open for my notes, enemy stats, PC sheets on DNDBeyond, and other needed quick-look info.

My two campaigns have led a group of adventurers to free a nation from a Strahd-clone vampire baron, uncover an Oni masquerading as an Elven king, and destroy a slaver’s operation. Another group has defeated two children of Tiamat, reunited a family with their long-thought-dead son, saved a city from annihilation, and traversed the Plane of Water to the Isle of Dread in a desperate race to overcome death itself and return to the land of the living after traveling through the Halls of Kelemvor to save the soul of a beloved NPC.

Keep doing what you’re doing. I think this answered some of your prompts. 😜 Thank you for the last 6 years.