What's your VTT of choice?

[delericho]

I've never used a VTT. Even while running two campaigns online during lockdown, we used nothing more advanced that Teams or Zoom.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I use Owlbear Rodeo often and have since covid but I’ve been wanting to learn more about Foundry. I have an instance up on my raspberry pi I toy around with.

Often I just use discord with maybe some screenshots of maps to give people an idea what’s going on.

We really can get as basic or advanced as we want and still enjoy RPGs!

 

[Desdichado]

Yep, when I had to start running games online after moving for work, I used Google Meet. Good voice, video, and screen sharing even with people in multiple countries. Didn't need real high bandwidths or powerful computers. If we were more TOTM players and didn't like battle maps so much I could see us having stayed with Google Meet. But I was sharing a screen where I had a player facing instance of Map Tool and I had to move all the tokens. So I dove head first into the world of VTTs.

Yeah, that's the key. I am a solid totm kinda guy, and don't care for systems with near obligatory tactical maps even in person.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

So much support for foundry. But, omg, I can’t stand the fiddliness of it. It’s supposed to let you click enemies and automatically do the damage until, oops, someone forgets to select the enemy. Or, oops, I clicked on the wrong spell and now we have to go back and undo all the auto calculations.

We spend more time with the vtt than actually playing.

I use roll20 because I’ve figured out all the tricks (using invisible tokens to label stuff) mouseover stuff is easy etc…. But all that work is on the dm side. It’s hard for players to screw stuff up unlike what I’ve found with foundry. Roll20 has an awful draw tool though.

I’d love a vtt where I can import or draw a map and edit it on the fly.

 

[fbnaulin]

I don't have a favorite one, heck, I even don't play online. I'd like to do it! But, first I want to find an opensource and local hosted alternative.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I don't have a favorite one, heck, I even don't play online. I'd like to do it! But, first I want to find an opensource and local hosted alternative.

Richard Stallman, is that you?

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Richard Stallman, is that you?

Nah, RMS erupts like a volcano when someone says 'open source'.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yep, when I had to start running games online after moving for work, I used Google Meet. Good voice, video, and screen sharing even with people in multiple countries. Didn't need real high bandwidths or powerful computers. If we were more TOTM players and didn't like battle maps so much I could see us having stayed with Google Meet. But I was sharing a screen where I had a player facing instance of Map Tool and I had to move all the tokens. So I dove head first into the world of VTTs.

I was actually using Maptool before I was doing remote play, just because doing it and projecting in on the TV was easier than trying to keep a physical battlemat and any sort of miniatures/tokens mix out and making it so everyone could see it well and I could manipulate things.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I've never used a VTT. Even while running two campaigns online during lockdown, we used nothing more advanced that Teams or Zoom.

Honestly, if you do mostly or nothing but TotM there's no real reason you need more.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I don't have a favorite one, heck, I even don't play online. I'd like to do it! But, first I want to find an opensource and local hosted alternative.

Look at Maptool. Its got a little learning curve, but as far as I know its opensource and its absolutely local hosted.