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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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.
Probably worth mentioning foundryVTT has voice chat integrated.
I personally use FoundryVTT, matrix, and rallly.co (with 3 "l"s) for my games
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.
Ok, gotcha! Thanks for the info!
Just going to chime in with some help, in case you need it. If you end up deciding for Foundry and find you need a public ip or something, look up zgrok (tailscale and tunnelmole are also options, but they’re not as good). It is probably the friendliest tunneling service I’ve found, and easy to set up as well. Doesn’t really have a GUI but it worked.
Just going to chime in with some help, in case you need it. If you end up deciding for Foundry and find you need a public ip or something, look up zgrok (tailscale and tunnelmole are also options, but they’re not as good). It is probably the friendliest tunneling service I’ve found, and easy to set up as well. Doesn’t really have a GUI but it worked.
We have a discord server that we are slowly migrating into a federated and self-hosted IRC and Galene setup. IRC because it’s easy to setup both servers and clients, Galene is a voice/video chat system that can be self-hosted and is comparatively lightweight and can do a few things you can’t easily do with discord. (Share multiple windows from the same or different computers for example).
We also tried with jitsi meet before, which works, but is more resource intensive to self-host.I experimented with maptool a bit but it doesn’t really fit my playstyle. We generally don’t use vtts.
I used to stick with Discord for most of my group gaming until they changed a bunch of policies and the overall vibe shifted. Now, I’m mostly on Matrix for chat and dice bots and sometimes set up Jitsi if we need voice. The flexibility is nice and feels less corporate, like you said. IRC is solid if you don’t mind something simple, and I’ve even tried hosting with Galene, which isn’t too tough once you get the basics down. On another note, when I want something different from the usual TTRPGs and MMOs, I check out iSabong sometimes since they offer more game variety plus live streams. It’s a neat way to experience games that aren’t usually online.
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.
Gatekeeping logic? Strange in a place like this…
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.
