Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : Arelor
From : claw
Date : Thu Oct 12 2023 07:37:59

On 11 Oct 2023, Arelor said the following...
 Ar>  > Well I have 2 kids and I'm still going to try to get them to play it.  
 Ar>  > st our group.  The app makes it like texting but you can share pictures
 Ar>  > w group.  It would be nice to not have to GM/DM all the time.  All are 
 Ar>  > ince I haven't played since I was 12.  I need to know the new rules.
 Ar> 
 Ar> I am not a super fan of playing these things online. If I am gonna go
 Ar> through a web interface I'd rather play a multiplayer videogame instead
 Ar> or a dedicated board game application (ie. an actual Terraforming Mars
 Ar> server, for example).
 Ar> 
 Ar> That said, you don't need much in technical means to play an RPG online.
 Ar> A vioce chat with a dice bot works fine. Last time I played Polaris
 Ar> online I used Mumble with a custom bot for rolling dice and a wiki for
 Ar> players to keep track of names and events. We had a blast.
 Ar> 
 Ar> I don't like most virtual tabletop providers because they work like
 Ar> silos. THey drag you in and then apply vendor lock-in on your stuff.
 Ar> 
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I can see that. Well I'm settled on Foundry VTT.  One time license and your done.  Its my server on my hardware and had tons a customizability to grow if I want.  Or as simple as I need it to be.  I get the idea of playing in person but at my age must people including myself have moved and getting together isn't as easy as it used to be.  So this is an option to do something we loved back in the day now.   I would love it if we could all GT every Thursday but I think the flights would get expensive.

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