I have very little experience with playing RPGs online and I had just assumed there exists some sort of an online tool for managing your game.
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@dawngreeter
Many people just run it paper and pencil on Zoom or Discord, TotM. Some have a cam on their dice tray.I know for me, Foundry has modules that help organize my stuff. I have yet to buy anything beyond the initial purchase of the program. All updates are free. A bit of tech savvy helps, but there is a big community for support. The systems and sheets for many games are available for free. Content can be uploaded as scenes and even compendium packs. It helps if you have PDFs.
@Lane This is very helpful, thank you. I guess I did not really get what Foundry was, and it seems it might serve my use case.
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@kevin @dawngreeter
Yeah, Roll20 may *push* the buying of books in a proprietary format on their site, but you can also just... use community character sheets and do manual data entry into them. -
@dawngreeter Not a specialized tool, but a lot of people use note-taking apps. Obsidian seems particularly popular.
@foolishowl Obsidian nearly made me go crazy. I could recall an old online tool for campaign tracking called Obsidian, but kept getting hits on this note taking app that RPG folks liked. Felt like Twilight Zone for a moment there.
Then I realized the tool I was thinking of is Obsidian Portal (and did not look very good).
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Turing Incomplete in my humble experience, that tool is simply a wiki. Foundry, as mentioned by others, has some fancy organizing and dice rolling utility even if you don’t use the VTT, but honestly, nothing beats general purpose tech and a dice bot if you need it.
@bss Yeah, that is definitely an option I am considering. I was mostly just trying to minimize time investment and hopefully get to something with a few clicks.
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@dawngreeter
in a pinch we've gotten by with video-chat and shared docs. the map was a little fraught, but it worked out in the end, with the keeper scribbling annotations on an image file.
and as for rolls, you will have to pry my physical dice from my scratchy little claws.@thegarbagebird I struggle with the idea of not using physical dice, too... I guess we'll see how it goes. Clicking a button and seeing numbers pop up just doesn't have that RPG feel.
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@ta11dave Yeah, it appears Foundry is the thing I need. It appears significantly more useful than what my initial assessment was.
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@ta11dave Yeah, it appears Foundry is the thing I need. It appears significantly more useful than what my initial assessment was.
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@ta11dave I am looking for World of Darkness stuff right now, and they have their Dark Pact stuff under open license. I assume the community support for that is decent. Hopefully.
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@thegarbagebird I struggle with the idea of not using physical dice, too... I guess we'll see how it goes. Clicking a button and seeing numbers pop up just doesn't have that RPG feel.
@dawngreeter and you can't put a randomiser in dice jail
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@dawngreeter and you can't put a randomiser in dice jail
@thegarbagebird YES!
