• mox
    28•16 days ago

    Foundry is outstanding. My groups moved to it after being frustrated with Fantasy Grounds and Roll20. Only parts of it are open-source, but I don’t mind in this case. It can be self-hosted, only one copy is needed, the price is reasonable, and the money goes to a small team of independent developers rather than a big corp.

    (My one notable criticism of Foundry is that their official support community is on Discord, which I won’t use. This hasn’t kept me from using the software, though. There are plenty of other users out there, so it’s pretty easy to find information when I need it.)

    We use Mumble for voice chat. Open-source, lightweight, cross-platform, low latency, good noise filtering (RNNoise), great sound quality. You can self-host, or pay for a super-cheap hosted server.

    For the sake of completeness, here’s a VTT Wiki:

    http://rpgvirtualtabletop.wikidot.com/the-vts

    A few random virtual tabletops that I bookmarked during peak pandemic:

    https://www.diceright.com/

    https://www.mythictable.com/

    https://www.planarally.io/

    https://new.tableplop.com/

    https://tarrasque.io/

    https://www.shardtabletop.com/

      • mox
        3•16 days ago

        I remember Owlbear Rodeo being mentioned from time to time a few years ago, but I didn’t keep track of it. Wasn’t it originally free? Did it go commercial?

      • Josh 🥁⚾
        1•16 days ago

        @Shkshkshk @mox Can second the love for Foundry. Just switched to it for my online group and I adore the flexibility and control I have over the game environment.

    • @vonbaronhans@midwest.social
      3•16 days ago

      I can vouch for Foundry VTT being really nice to use, overall.

      It’s not free though, so I’m not sure it falls under the FOSS label.