I wrote my own VTT. Does that count?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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Damn dust. That's awesome!
It counts! LOL
I run A Nextcloud instance for my group containing character sheets, maps, supplements, and PDFs of every RPG book I’ve been able to get my grubby little mitts on.
Not really the topic, but why do you want to run owlbear alongside foundry? It seems like a slimmer alternative rather than something to use in conjunction.
To actually answer the title post I just run foundryvtt and I have a bunch of RPG manuals backed up in Nextcloud so I guess that too
Two reasons: Foundry has been feeling more and more bloated and still doesn’t work well on tablets or mobile, while Owlbear does; and Foundry doesn’t like to play nicely with cloudflare tunnels, and owlbear does from what I understand.
That's fair. I can't say it feels more bloated to me, but the tablet/mobile issue is definitely a big one if relevant for your players.
Do you run Foundry in Docker? Where does Foundry not play nice?
I've run Foundry + CloudFlared in Docker with 0 issues for some time.
I mostly play Vampire, Mage, Paranoia or Monster of the week, so I don't need a full VTT, just some dice rolling and some sheet/NPC management that can integrate well with something like Discord. So I wrote my own, which then turned into a snowball of adding features, making it more generic, etc... It's still an ongoing project, but with Foundry and others out there I don't think anyone outside me will useine so I've put a lid on that and only fiddle with it when I need something for a game I'm playing.
I have Foundry through Docker, but that's pretty much the extent of the self host. Everything else comes through D&D Beyond. I'd love to get away from wizards, but it's pretty damn slick.
Https://5e.tools/ has a plugin for Foundry that lets you pull basically everything from every source into Foundry. Oh and you can host your own 5eTools instance just in case the site gets nuked from orbit by Wizards
Thank you, I will look into this!
Not hosted in the traditional sense but Obsidian.md makes a near perfect companion if you don't want to put all of your content in Foundry. Check out Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/
Oh huge fan of obsidian my ttrpg graph has like 10k notes. If it was FOSS and natively self hostable it would be perfect.