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Help needed: how do YOU do things? (feddit.nl)
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So, after almost 2 decades I decided to 0lay DND again. Since I have been and always will be forever DM, I've been reading up.

I am very charmed about the idea of foundry (that I have a liscence to (what can I say, I'm impulsive)), but have no experience with.

So: DM's and players that play locally: how do you play?

Do you do oldstyle pen and paper? Printed maps? 3d printed? Foundry for battle and the rest theatre of the mind? Weird combos?

Tell me and inspire me to navigate my fresh crew and myself through this new and perilous world.

Edit: did NOT expect so many reactions so fast here, loving it.

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[-] Tarcion@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I use foundry and love it. I've switched to PF2E but ran 5e on there for about 2 years. It works great for doing a lot of automation for you and you can still throw up a background image for TotM scenes. Definitely my favorite method I've tried for our virtual group. Though when we have In-person sessions we still use foundry with eneryone on laptops because it's so much easier.

[-] TvanBuuren@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

That last bit is one of my problems.

The gang is ALWAYS together for things like this, never remote.

And foundry is not really local friendly I think.

[-] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

Foundry works fine at the table! Check out this article: https://www.foundryvtt-hub.com/guide/using-foundry-for-in-person-gaming/

[-] Tarcion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that is an excellent article. I've been wanting to try and host an In-person game for a bit but the whole "8 laptops" thing is a bit cumbersome. I think there is definitely a viable solution there to let people play from the couch and just hot seat with a laptop while the game is up on the TV.

[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Foundry makes a great information hub, even locally. All your DM handouts, their character sheets and notes, bags of holding, etc can live inside it. No more "who has X thing?"

I usually have a couple of maps set up for global use. One is the world/region map and I move a toke on it to show where the party is. Journal entries are pinned to locations and I reveal them as the party learns info.

Then I'll usually have a map set up as essentially their "planning table" with all the info relevant to the current events, images, etc.

It's set up so that even if we are running a combat in another map, they can swap back and reference something themselves if they want. I can always draw their attention back to the combat encounter map on demand if needed.

Also, if you also run 5e-tools it makes life even easier. You can import all sorts of things from 5e-tools into foundry with no need to spend time re-creating spells and items and such

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