Taking your D&D campaign online is a game-changer, and so easy I wish I'd done it sooner

It kind of barely touches on FoundryVTT which is pretty much the best of the bunch if you are ok with running your own server:

-you own it -you own the content -lots of modules and very active development and support. Both official and fan based -great to use for a number of systems from DND to Warhammer and too many to list on mobile -very slick to use and macros allow you to do many cool things easily

Online play was a godsend during lockdown, and introduced me to all sorts of digital tools our group still uses. If I ever meet that nice Mr. Strahd, I'll have to buy him a drink for that alone.

But damn, if we couldn't wait to go back to in-person play. For a bunch of 30-40 year old folks with jobs and kids and other assorted awkward bollocks, in-the-flesh DnD has been a magnificent way for us to enrich old friendships - and, even better for people our age, develop new ones.

And it does this without a requirement to get smashed at the pub, which is still very much the default socialising technique over here. Not that I mind getting fucked up, but I'm always on the lookout for ways to hang out with friends that doesn't revolve 100% around booze. Getting to share collaborative story-telling with my people around a table still feels every bit as special now as it did when we started 15 odd years ago.