I am not going to explain what is D&D here. In short, there are so many resources out there (text, audio or video) which can explain it so much better than me, that it would be just a waste of time. I am instead going to explain what is my current set-up for playing D&D, and why, with all the cludges it has, makes the game better. In short, I am using MapTool as a VTT, with (a lot of) custom macros, and a VPN to allow my players to connect to it, and this is a picture of the view of me as a DM of a typical session. The laptop on the left is the laptop of the DM (me); it runs the VTT server; the laptop on the right is used to provide the local players (my wife and my daughter) with an instance of the VTT, connected to my server; it also runs the videoconference software (Google Meetings in this case); the remote players (Paolo being one of them in the picture) runs their local instance of the Virtual Table Top to connect to my instance, and have their instance of Google Mee...