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Are there FOSS alternatives to Roll20? (dice.camp)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are there FOSS alternatives to Roll20?

@dnd

I did a little googling and spotted Foundry Virtual Tabletop, but I haven't been able to explore many alternatives yet. Which ones are good?

#foss #opensource #DnD #ttrpg #rpg #dungeonsanddragons

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Foundry is outstanding. My groups moved to it after being frustrated with Fantasy Grounds and Roll20. Only parts of it are open-source, but I don't mind in this case. It can be self-hosted, only one copy is needed, the price is reasonable, and the money goes to a small team of independent developers rather than a big corp.

(My one notable criticism of Foundry is that their official support community is on Discord, which I won't use. This hasn't kept me from using the software, though. There are plenty of other users out there, so it's pretty easy to find information when I need it.)

We use Mumble for voice chat. Open-source, lightweight, cross-platform, low latency, good noise filtering (RNNoise), great sound quality. You can self-host, or pay for a super-cheap hosted server.

For the sake of completeness, here's a VTT Wiki:

http://rpgvirtualtabletop.wikidot.com/the-vts

A few random virtual tabletops that I bookmarked during peak pandemic:

https://www.diceright.com/

https://www.mythictable.com/

https://www.planarally.io/

https://new.tableplop.com/

https://tarrasque.io/

https://www.shardtabletop.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget owlbear rodeo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I remember Owlbear Rodeo being mentioned from time to time a few years ago, but I didn't keep track of it. Wasn't it originally free? Did it go commercial?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can vouch for Foundry VTT being really nice to use, overall.

It's not free though, so I'm not sure it falls under the FOSS label.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not free though, so I’m not sure it falls under the FOSS label.

Parts of it are MIT-licensed, and therefore qualify as FOSS. (The "free" in FOSS is not about price.) Example: https://github.com/foundryvtt/dnd5e

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh I did think the F in FOSS was about the price. Good to know!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

@mox
Thank you. This was very thorough, and very helpful.