I know there are some TTRPG players here. Beware FoundryVTT, your purchase price will go towards social marxism.
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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.