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

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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?

      • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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.

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
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        1 day ago

        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.