They are actively looking to sell their userbase. "A friend of a friend" who is supposedly connected to Roll20 said that they are being pushed out of the market. Now if that is true or not, I will say is hearsay as I got it second hand. I can not out my friend for obvious reasons. I would be perfectly happy to retract my statement should it be proven false.
Traveller on VTTs
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Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I hope not. I’ve invested time and money getting my game set up there.
Foundry has had an official marketplace for YEARS..........
I understand this completely. We (our "group") play Pathfinder kitbashed to Spelljammer on Roll20 as well as Call of Cthulu. The rest of our games are all on Foundry/Forge
Anstett
Emperor Mongoose
Roll20 and RPGNow/DriveThruRPG are all one company now.
I find it doubtful that Roll20 will go away as a platform.
It may be a smaller player in the future. Foundry and Fantasy Grounds are the other two key VTT platforms.
Smiteworks/Fantasy Grounds and Mongoose have a much longer relationship than either of the others.
I want Traveller to be on as many VTT platforms as possible, provided the IP licensing can be worked out with them all.
I find it doubtful that Roll20 will go away as a platform.
It may be a smaller player in the future. Foundry and Fantasy Grounds are the other two key VTT platforms.
Smiteworks/Fantasy Grounds and Mongoose have a much longer relationship than either of the others.
I want Traveller to be on as many VTT platforms as possible, provided the IP licensing can be worked out with them all.
DataDwarf
Banded Mongoose
I run Traveller on the Quest Portal VTT. It works for my group and my gm'ing style. I play in a game run on Roll20. Personally Roll20 is not my cup of tea, but it works. I've also played in a game solely run in Discord.
I'll second wanting to see support on multiple VTTs.
I'll second wanting to see support on multiple VTTs.
We've started doing one of our weekly sessions every month on Owlbear Rodeo and it works a treat for us as it's basically just the same as being in person. We use the dice tool, and everything else is just maps and images. Super-lightweight and extremely easy to improvise.
I'd tried Foundry, Roll20 and FGU, and I've watched a bunch of streams of Traveller campaigns on Youtube. One thing I had experienced and which is noticeable in the streams is that as soon as a fight is about to start, everything slows right down.. We've not experienced that so far, this way.
The other thing I've noticed is that the interface designs for most of these tools are remarkably amateurish. I suppose it reflects the lack of money in the space, which is a niche of a niche, and I imagine that there are generally very small teams involved and no budget for dedicated UX resources or designers.
I'd tried Foundry, Roll20 and FGU, and I've watched a bunch of streams of Traveller campaigns on Youtube. One thing I had experienced and which is noticeable in the streams is that as soon as a fight is about to start, everything slows right down.. We've not experienced that so far, this way.
The other thing I've noticed is that the interface designs for most of these tools are remarkably amateurish. I suppose it reflects the lack of money in the space, which is a niche of a niche, and I imagine that there are generally very small teams involved and no budget for dedicated UX resources or designers.
Anstett
Emperor Mongoose
In a VTT combat does go a bit slower when all of the players are not invested fully.
I have run my games for 20+ years on VTT and can say that on sessions where multiple players are concerned about their character and outcomes things can go very quickly to make sure everyone is participating promptly.
Other times, if someone drifts off, or is worrying about the exact right spell, combat trick to pull, etc. it can slow people down.
Of course the number of people is also a factor. My games tend to have 5 to 7 people so things do go a bit slower. But as I remind the players, the reason it is slow is because they need to make choices. At a table it would be slow as people are double checking if they have every modifier correct. The program handles that for us.
I have run my games for 20+ years on VTT and can say that on sessions where multiple players are concerned about their character and outcomes things can go very quickly to make sure everyone is participating promptly.
Other times, if someone drifts off, or is worrying about the exact right spell, combat trick to pull, etc. it can slow people down.
Of course the number of people is also a factor. My games tend to have 5 to 7 people so things do go a bit slower. But as I remind the players, the reason it is slow is because they need to make choices. At a table it would be slow as people are double checking if they have every modifier correct. The program handles that for us.
ResslynHalvik
Cosmic Mongoose
I'm trying to help our referee (who is new to Traveller) find "battlemap" resources that he can use in the Foundry VTT. I am completely knew to the VTT concept, so I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.
When it comes to ship deck plans are the plans in the PDF of e.g. High Guard suitable for use in Foundry? And if we wanted to tweak those a bit to show some modifications to a ship could we just do that in paint or visio or something?
When it comes to ship deck plans are the plans in the PDF of e.g. High Guard suitable for use in Foundry? And if we wanted to tweak those a bit to show some modifications to a ship could we just do that in paint or visio or something?
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
I've toyed with sucking deck plans into Fantasy Grounds and adding line of sight info. Alas, using FG's tools for that is like kicking dead whales down the beach.
ResslynHalvik
Cosmic Mongoose
Is FG some tooling within Foundry?
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Fantasy Grounds is a different VTT (which the games I'm in use, therefore it's the one that I know anything about). I have some curiosity about Foundry but not enough yet to spring for a license.
ResslynHalvik
Cosmic Mongoose
I'm just trying to find out in general how I tell when looking and image that someone is trying to sell me as a "battle map", weather it technically works. I see mention of resolution and scale and grid but I don't really know what I'm looking for in those.
Is a battle map just a high resolution image of a top-down view of an area where something interesting is happening? How does scaling work in a way that allows it to be used in Traveller?
Is a battle map just a high resolution image of a top-down view of an area where something interesting is happening? How does scaling work in a way that allows it to be used in Traveller?
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Well, with FG you could just shluuurp in a screenshot of a deck plan, add a grid layer (you'd end up scaling and sliding it manually to match the grid lines on the screenshot) so tokens would know how far they were moving, and call it a battle map, but to be really useful I would expect line of sight data, which consists in part of an invisible layer of lines, arcs, etc drawn on the bulkheads. Some of the modules sold in FG's store have LOS info; no idea if third parties can or do provide the same thing.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
All the VTT stuff from CyborgPrime Publishing on DriveThruRPG supports Foundry and include instructions.
DriveThruRPG - CyborgPrime Publishing
Note other stuff on there likely supports Foundry as well, just mentioning that as I know it works with Foundry.
Anstett
Emperor Mongoose
A great resource for VTT pieces is Pharoid's maps, he does system agnostic things that should be easy to bring into Foundry.
CRW RPG Design
My VTT RPG battlemaps and 3D design work for Fantasy Grounds Unity and DTRPG. Development previews and some How-To battlemap and asset creation videos.
www.youtube.com
ResslynHalvik
Cosmic Mongoose
Thanks, all. Found some stuff I hope is useful.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Good luck with it. Have fun.
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