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

For anybody else that hates needless acronyms, FOSS apparently stands for Free and Open Source Software.

I run a West Marches server on Foundry that had a few dozen active players at it's height. I ended up just renting a server on ForgeVTT, a cloud hosting service for Foundry. I believe they had a free option that's good for more casual users but even I'm only paying like $5/mo.

I've mostly run Lancer games since last year, so my go-to tools were [Owlbear Rodeo VTT](https://www.owlbear.rodeo/) and [WitchDice](https://witchdice.com/) 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](https://revolt.chat/) and testing out how its Voice Chat works, even if its not as good as Discord.

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 is still a bit maintained. When the backend provider broke, it has been updated. Nevertheless, the provider is still a company. I don't have the experience to switch to peer.js to make is really open source and free.

I hope you're not a forever GM.

No I’m not. Care to explain ? Foundry are better for forever GM ? Roll20 cost a lot for GM ?

No. It's that your players are already using roll20. At that point, they should be open to try a new VTT. Like how they're open to try different RPGs.

I would have assumed the audience for this post is TTRPG nerds.

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.

I mean it is But we're also on the fediverse. That does imply a certain demographic too.

I don't know what the implied demographic is, but I assume I am not in it. I suppose that vibe is part of why I don't feel the desire to venture further into the fediverse.

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.

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

Gatekeeping logic? Strange in a place like this...

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.

Oh, absolutely. I would love for lemmy (and fediverse generally) to have more reach.

>I don't know what the implied demographic is, but I assume I am not in it. The demographic is people who care more about being free from corporate controlled media than they care about a shiny, polished user experience. (i.e. free open source software [FOSS] enthusiasts) This is necessarily the case because of the relationship between sites like Lemmy and sites like, say Reddit. Reddit is absolutely more polished, but Lemmy is more resistant to enshittifcation. Naturally tech nerds are both more aware of the dangers of corporate controlled software and more able to make the switch, so you get a lot of them as your early adopters. >I suppose that vibe is part of why I don't feel the desire to venture further into the fediverse. I really hope you change your mind. Both because Lemmy definitely feels "further in" than something like mastodon or pixelfed, but also because these sites really do need mainstream adoption in order to compete with the tech giants.

That's a pretty good testimonial. Thank you for taking the time to share it with me.