I’m trying to get away from corporate owned software and support FOSS stuff.
Normally if I wanted to play a game online I would use a discord server and some kind of vtt. Since discord is not looking great rn, where would you guys recommend playing?
Any vtt recs are good too but I don’t strictly need one. A way to chat and roll dice is essential though
I’ve mostly run Lancer games since last year, so my go-to tools were Owlbear Rodeo VTT and WitchDice for rolls, and recently upgraded to Foundry. However, when it comes to Voice Chat, we were still using Discord.
With the recent news, I’ve been considering moving our channel to Revolt and testing out how its Voice Chat works, even if its not as good as Discord.
FoundryVTT. It’s a one time license fee and though the code is not completely open source, it’s mostly just client side JavaScript that is completely unobfuscated and supposed to be able to be viewed so everyone can modify it with addons. The server is obfuscated JavaScript.
It’s completely and easily self-hostable.
So far, the company/people behind are just TTRPG nerds just wanting a good and friendly VTT (…wanting to make money with it).
It is a full VTT though. If you really only want chat+dice rolling, I would suggest a matrix server with a dice roll plugin/bot.
I’ll look into Foundry. Not sure what the specs are that I would need in order to host.
How would I set up a dice bot for matrix? Would I need to self host or is there an existing server I could create a space in?
The foundry specs are so low you can probably use a toaster for the hosting. The client (web browser) uses graphics for the tabletop so the requirements are a bit higher, but still every device currently available will be able to run it I’m pretty sure.
The main difficult requirement is the networking, whereever you host it will need an open port for people to connect to. I don’t know how hard that will be for you.
Don’t know much about the Matrix stuff, I’ve just seen it before.
For anybody else that hates needless acronyms, FOSS apparently stands for Free and Open Source Software.
I have really enjoyed using FoundryVTT. A one time payment for the software and then you can self-host the server easily. I don’t know if that is outside your criteria. If you aren’t looking for VTT battle mapping though, it’s probably more than you need. I’m still using Discord for voice since that is where my players are at but I want to get away from it too.
Mostly roll20. I asked my crew sometimes ago to try Foundry (mostly because it’s self host if I understand it correctly) but they declined
No I’m not. Care to explain ? Foundry are better for forever GM ? Roll20 cost a lot for GM ?