It’s been a fair bit of effort to get the VTT ready for some tabletop action. I’ve been fiddling with NPC abilities, attacks, items and the actual assets to reflect the campaign. All told it has been a more effort than I was expecting, but think it will be worth it once we get going.
I’m glad to be using Foundry, which hasn’t seen much use since I stopped running Pathfinder. Pete is picking up the GMing mantle for our Pathfinder adventures and has elected to use the much lighter Owlbear Rodeo, with players rolling dice as they will, and keeping track of characters however, be it on Pathbuilder, on paper or somewhere else.
This minimalist approach to VTTs has also found expression in my 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons game. Players never really got on with the full size Role character sheet, so I created a really light one that just kept track of HPs, and other resources. My 4e Light sheet on Role fully expects the player to have the character sheet somewhere else. The minimum I’m looking for is quick shared dice rolls, which the Lite sheet enables. I honestly don’t think my players are bothering with that either.
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So, here we are with Foundry, a big boy VTT with more options than I’ve had hot dinners. I like integrated Audio and Video cameras, to give a sense that we are all together and around a table. I’ve shifted the Foundry AV to the Livekit module, as the Jitsi module is now not being maintained. I’m told that the new Livekit is rock solid, and that it is to be fully adopted by Forge Hosting. I hope so, as this capability is costing me a patreon subscription.
LiveKit success is a big deal for me and continued use of Foundry. The Conan mini campaign may well give me some usage for my money and I would like to run Cepheus Deluxe on here too. I’m not going to say that I will be running the Free league module for Bladerunner on here, because I’m not backing that game. I’m not. No. Not at all… 😳
So, in essence, I want to get a lot of Foundry use or I will pare back to Role for everything. Or maybe even Alchemy RPG, which I’ll witter on about seperately. There are only so many subscriptions i can afford!
More on my Conan 2d20 adventures to come…