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vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Couple of things I have running on my phone server no one has mentioned yet.
FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.
Pihole is probably something you’ve heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven’t it’s a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.
CybranM@feddit.nu 5 days ago
How difficult is it to set up FoundryVTT? I heard they changed some things recently but I’m very out of the loop
vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Depends on what part of “set up” you’re referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from “here is a packaged Electron based Windows application” to “here are the node.js source files”. All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.
Surprisingly, despite being commercial software requiring a license, the original non-obfuscated node.js source is provided.
Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that’s going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.
CybranM@feddit.nu 5 days ago
Ah ok, I was mostly talking about hosting Foundry itself but that sounds promising if it’s relatively easy. I have some stuff set up but I’m very inexperienced when it comes to hosting etc
vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.
foundryvtt.com/kb/