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Where do you play virtual games?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 thoughRolisteam is a FOSS (and self hosted) VTT. However, it hasn't evolved much in the previous 15 years. It has all the main function (Shared white board, load map with fog of war and move token on-it, roll dices, chat) even has a character sheet manager. But definitely not as fancy as a modern payware one
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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
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Albion is a FOSS friendly game. There's a Linux installer available on their download page, and a huge Linux guild.
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Rolisteam is a FOSS (and self hosted) VTT. However, it hasn't evolved much in the previous 15 years. It has all the main function (Shared white board, load map with fog of war and move token on-it, roll dices, chat) even has a character sheet manager. But definitely not as fancy as a modern payware one
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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.
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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 thoughMostly roll20. I asked my crew sometimes ago to try Foundry (mostly because it’s self host if I understand it correctly) but they declined
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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 thoughFor anybody else that hates needless acronyms, FOSS apparently stands for Free and Open Source Software.
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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?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.
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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 thoughI'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.
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For anybody else that hates needless acronyms, FOSS apparently stands for Free and Open Source Software.
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Although it's now unmaintained, I've used [Fari](https://fari.app/) as a place for dice, index cards, and clocks.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.
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Mostly roll20. I asked my crew sometimes ago to try Foundry (mostly because it’s self host if I understand it correctly) but they declinedI hope you're not a forever GM.
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No I’m not. Care to explain ? Foundry are better for forever GM ? Roll20 cost a lot for GM ?
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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.
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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.I would have assumed the audience for this post is TTRPG nerds.
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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.
