Keep in mind you have to host the server yourself for players to join. Otherwise you can use a service like The Forge to host it for you, but then you’re incurring the same kind of monthly fee as roll20. But the interface and responsiveness compared to roll20 is great. Some of the controls take some getting used to
Thanks for the links and the reply! I actually adore those class sheets and I paid more than a couple bucks to the creator when I first found them. I play with a lot of new players and young players, so having all the class features spelled out right on the sheet is a huge help. Also I prefer organizing the skills by ability like that. Definitely a +1 from me on those sheets.
I like that printable, foldable sheet as well. I might check it out, but my small writing can be hard for my aging eyes to parse. We’ll see!
I’ve been paying $10/mo for a roll20 subscription for years. It was the only VTT I had used when I started gaming online, and it worked well enough. I knew about Tabletop Simulator, but roll20 had the benefit of not requiring every player to buy software.
Recently I started using Foundry as a player in a friend’s game. We’ve been using it for a while now and holy crap, it’s so, so much better. We are specifically playing DCC but hearing they’ll have official D&D support makes me want to migrate all my roll20 games and stop paying a monthly fee. Foundry is faster, cleaner, has more options, better docs, and easy to find user-created plugins. I can believe my DM only had to pay a one time fee of like $30-50 and I’ve already paid hundreds of dollars for roll20 (not including the books I’ve bought) for a vastly inferior experience. This will definitely help me get buy-in from my players
I always shied away from gaming with strangers or even making friends at the game shop until a few years ago when I was looking for a table for FFG’s Edge of the Empire (this was well before Genesys). There was one near me and I played there every week for years. However, there was one session where a player made a min-max melee build that was able to go toe to toe with one of the DM’s scary NPCs and he went off on a huge tangent about how he would never allow such a build, etc. It made me really uncomfortable so I stopped going after that. Then COVID hit shortly after and I haven’t played a game at a shop since
Anyone have a link to the actual rules? I’m really curious to see how they changed healing. I don’t care as much about class feature changes until I’m actually making a character, but rules and spell changes always make me curious.
I kinda like that they’re trying to streamline summoning spells. They have always been a pain in the butt as long as I’ve been playing, but I also worry about them feeling flavorless. Like I love the updated Beast Master summons, but they do feel a bit bland
Yeah! I can’t live without my grid paper notepads. Not just for D&D, I use them for everything lol. But yeah they’re great for sketching maps, especially.
I like to make cards too. Like cards that describe the various things my character can do like cast certain spells or use certain features and I can activate them like it’s yugioh lol