Mike offers tips for playing Dungeons & Dragons over Discord including troubleshooting audio problems, installing avrae, using avrae for rapid initiative tracking, and how to show maps to players. Click "Show More" for useful links and tips:

Video Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
0:55 Why Discord?
2:42 Setting Up a Discord Server for D&D
6:06 User Settings and Troubleshooting Audio Problems
10:24 This is All You Need to Play
11:06 Installing Avrae in Discord
12:53 Loading D&D Beyond Characters in Avrae
14:50 Avrae D&D Compendium Lookup
15:33 Avrae Monster Lookup Requires DM Role
17:50 Rolling Wholeparty Initiativew with an Avrae Alias
21:13 Building, Clipping, and Showing Maps to Players

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Discord D&D Server Template:
https://discord.new/KbrU5HcZmRWD

Avrae
https://avrae.io/

Looking for a great easytouse battle map? Try Owlbear Rodeo! It's awesome.
https://www.owlbear.rodeo

Google Draw
https://docs.google.com/drawings/

I've had better luck with Google Presentations which can load larger map files without needing to reduce them:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Dyson Logos (Maps)
https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/

Avrae Initiative Alias:

!alias rollinit multiline
!i begin
!i add 3 Sabre
!i add 1 Banner
!i add 2 Xi
!i add 2 Shift
!i add 6 Shane
!i add 2 Zarantyr
!i add 1 Monsters
!i list

Screenshot tool for Windows 10:
Win + Shift + S for Snip & Sketch

Screenshot tool for Mac:
Command + Control + Shift + 4