I know there are some TTRPG players here. Beware FoundryVTT, your purchase price will go towards social marxism.
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What does this even mean? We write short notes on a pieces of paper and rotate bookkeeping so no one gets tired and it has never been an issue. What information is needed that you can't just jot down? Wouldnt even know where to start using the internet for this or how it would benefit us in any way. Its all right there on the paper from last week. Also, I own the paper and there never has been anything gay on it let alone a donation to communists.
One of the big appeals of Foundry at the time I paid up (at which time there was none of this nonsense I could find anyway) is a pay-once non-subscription model that I can self host. I own the assets in my game world just as much as I own my three ring binder of notes.
After playing both in person and online, I think I like online play a bit better. Theater of the mind is great, but I do like a good tactical game and I find in-person tactical battles really cumbersome. (And I do mix the two anyway, no one expects to actually move tokens 10ft at a time along a river bank). I don't have a big collection of minis, monsters, terrain, etc and while we can all play pretend, seeing a skeleton and where it's looking is objectively more pleasant than staring at a spare d4 and remembering that the 124 side is it's front. No arguing and butthurt players when they think their Fireball or Anti-Magic Shell should reach when I can just plunk down a template that shows it doesn't.
Also a lot of conveniences to be had running your character sheet digitally including never burning through the paper after erasing for the 200th time, easy to transfer items, rules cross reference, etc. Dice are out on display (when you want them), nothing falling on the floor, no passing around dice trays or towers.
I guess I'm just salty I put down my money to a formerly non-political company only to get a dick shoved in my face.
It’s a woman’s dick, bigot
I guess I just look at it as a deliberately non-digital activity. Most the things I do are on software, even things that I have analog equipment for, so I appreciate game night being the way it is with the papers.
Minis help a lot. We have an eclectic mix. Only a few are actual gaming miniatures, several are lego figures. If we are down to using dice then it is a crazy scenario lol. The guys have come to appreciate certain figures.. Assigning roles to the same pool of them over and over starts to feel like they are a troupe of actors being cast for a performance, except unlike actors they are not gay.
I prefer that to the idea of dropping generic skeletons into a field graph in some app. Not that I really know anything about this software. Sounds like it must be nice from how you tell it but I just really appreciate having social activities that don't involve my pc or phone.
I can't tell if you're actually being serious or not. Firstly, you're responding to a person who specifically mentioned running Exalted, which is made by White Wolf. Secondly, are you just assuming that Foundry is replacing gaming in a physical space when far more often virtual tabletops are used to facilitate games that wouldn't be able to happen in person on paper. Third, you literally cannot be serious if you think it doesn't cut down on bookkeeping or speed up play when rolling dozens of exploding dice to automate it. Fourth, your paper is gay
Well old chap I can clear that up for you. (1) Idk what any of that is. (2) it seems obvious to me that these games are played on tables with papers little props. (3) I never claimed anything other than that we use minis and paper and don't have issues with bookkeeping. (4) Not all paper comes from deliriously large international companies but I'm not going to accidentally provide you with the name of my hometown on account of arguing so.
I can't do justice to how inundated white wolf is sjw nonsense in a quick rundown, but know that it's bad enough to publish shit that gets commented on by Chechen Minister for National Policy and Foreign Relations weighing in on their bs. You... really have no idea what virtual tabletops are and didn't pick up on how it's a fair bit easier to play with a group spread across states or even countries online than trying to get together to physically play in person. Yeah obviously no one company has a monopoly, but dei/bridge shit is ubiquitous.
I realize I'm ignorant of the subject matter but I did not fail to pick up on how much easier an online service would make it to play with people over the internet lol. You gotta give your conversation partners a little benefit of the doubt lol.
Different strokes for different people. If my situation and needs were different it might be a great choice to go virtual. I don't mean to sound like a hipster or like I'm judging you guys. But I do think so long as you consume digital services you have less power over everything that you get done in that way, and separate yourself from the real world a bit more. I know it's ironic to talk about separating from the real world-it's an escapist hobby, but I don't really give a damn about the campaigns in particular, personally, for me it's about having them nibbas around a table together, rolling dice and having a time with pizza and drinks.
I have an interest in music production, and although methods exist to collaborate on projects over the internet- which would bypass scheduling issues and efficientize our rate of production- I totally ignore all of it because I demand to get together to jam instead.
Some people have a friend who moves away and they use this stuff to keep in contact. That is great, making the best of what you've got to keep a connection. Maybe if that happened to me with a specific person I will eat my words and convert to virtual, but I'm afraid the entire tradition would slowly liquidate among the rest of us since nobody would actually need to be there to participate, and needing to be there acts as a sort of leverage item for making it happen, if that makes any sense.
There are some cool features for “Virtual Tabletops” in general, like fog of war, optionally hiding tokens from view, saving token placement and initiative from session to session, etc.
It sounds like you’re describing playing without maps and grids, so they’d probably do very little for you, but if you happen to run a game that uses battlemaps a lot, they can be useful.
We tend to use maps as visual aids for the characters themselves. Like, one of the characters owns a map, so people can look at it and guess where they are. In battles we do use a grid but I'm sure our system is very simplified compared to you guys.
For instance we handle sneaking stuff entirely with dice and never pay attention to the direction a character is facing. We consider 1 turn to be enough time to look anywhere and target whatever is in-range so long as its not actively and successfully invisible or sneaking. Restrictions and limitations may apply in special circumstances, but in general we compromise on the game's integrity in order to make it operate more smoothly or easily lol.