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
For The One Ring I just run a discord server with the Narvi bot, although I run combat, journeys and counsils myself because I couldn’t be bothered learning the contexts and such.
For any duet sessions with my SO (we’ve done Mothership and Delta Green) we just call each other over Whatsapp or Signal and I trust her not to cheat the rolls, then we track everything on pen and paper ourselves. It works pretty great for how ultra minimalistic it is
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.
For anybody else that hates needless acronyms, FOSS apparently stands for Free and Open Source Software.
No reason to hate acronyms; they make communication much more efficient!
They are annoying when you’re not in the clique that knows about them, I’ve found they can be hard to look up.
They do make communication more efficient, as long as everyone understands the definition. If they don’t, then acronyms and initials quickly make the communication inefficient, or worse, make the person that isn’t in the know feel excluded. In my professional life, I spend a lot of my time translating acronyms and trying to help people navigate the confusion of not knowing what things mean and wondering if they’re in over their head, all due to the constant use of jargon.
My suggestion is to definite your acronyms the first time you use them or, if it’s a short message, spell the whole thing out and don’t mention the abbreviation at all.
I’m surprised anyone on Lemmy isn’t aware of that one. I 100% would have spelled it out of not for the fact that this audience is 95% Linux nerds.
It means the bare is lower than before and some people out of this group can find interest and access the platform. This is very good. Let’s welcome them.
I mean it is 😅
But we’re also on the fediverse. That does imply a certain demographic 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 ?
Albion is a FOSS friendly game. There’s a Linux installer available on their download page, and a huge Linux guild.