• jjjalljs
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    7 months ago

    I legit used Google sheets for my pandemic game and it worked extremely well.

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      7 months ago

      Notepad streamed over a Zoom meeting. Each token is represented by a single character, as in an old-school CLI roguelike.

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      7 months ago

      I was kinda doing this with Photoshop and discord, just because I liked the tools in Photoshop for moving things etc. I realised they were all in Google Slides and switched over for the latter half of my pandemic era campaign and honestly it worked like a dream.

      I now know that Owlbear Rodeo is basically the same option again but without the rest of the unnecessary PowerPoint fluff.

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        Yeah, we’re using owlbear rodeo in a campaign I’m in, and it’s super easy and smooth. I definitely prefer it to roll20, which I think is pretty clunky

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    7 months ago

    I prefer offline whenever possible and we love to put minis and terrain on the table.

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      7 months ago

      If course! That’s always the number one choice, when possible. Sadly, it’s just not an option as frequently as I (and plenty of others) would like.

      Those minis and terrain look rad, too! I also like that part of the hobby in and of itself. I could spend hours just painting minis and making terrain while watching or listening to something.

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      7 months ago

      We started using Foundry for the interactive maps, not quite as interactive ad minis but the sound triggers and traps automatically going off was super fun!

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    We recently played a oneshot on Owlbear Rodeo instead of our usual Foundry or Roll20 and I much preferred the simpler Owlbear experience. With the others it was usually a question of “how do I do this with this VTT” and with Owlbear everyone managed their character on their own and we could just play. And I think it gave the DM more confidence to do theatre of the mind when something wasn’t prepared.

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    7 months ago

    Tabletop Simulator + VR was way crazier than i thought for the first (and only) time we tried it