Hope you all find this video useful! I know I don't go too in depth with any of these, but I hope I show enough off to help you decide which is right for you! Also, I know some comments aren't showing up for some reason. Spent a good half an hour with TH-cam support trying to figure it out, but to no avail. Sorry, but know that I did still see and read them in my notifications, and I appreciate them!
These kinds of videos are a great share option for people who want to know where is the best place to play online for their particular needs. Love the videos!
Thanks much! I'd been wanting to make this video for like the last month, buuut I was so busy with the Cortex video and waiting for Role's character sheet update that it kept getting put off. Glad to hear you like it!
This TH-cam channel is just amazing. The editing, the script, the animations... Bravo!! That said, I knew about FATE thanks to your video and I'm learning the system, so this video comes in handy! This content does definitely okay. I'm sorry, english is not my first language
Thanks for this great overview! I’m a fan of keeping things as simple as possible. I’ve been loving Owlbear Rodeo with Zoom for the video and chat. I have two screens though, which I recognize is a luxury. Although Owlbear doesn’t have integrations, I love being able to add sticky notes and hide or reveal elements during the game, the 3d style dice roller is fun, and we use it like a bit of a dashboard for the game. Most importantly it is super easy for the players to use. If Owlbear adds Fudge dice, I think it will meet all my needs. Fari looks great too!
Roll20's official character sheet customizes for any flavor of Fate. The GM should set what Fate options to use and what to delete for your particular game of Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, or Fate Condensed. Nathan H. on Roll20 offered his template system to divide the tabletop into boxes for each character's Fate Point tokens, and central areas to list verbal aspects and zone maps. Oh, and if your virtual tabletop doesn't have Fudge dice in particular, it's the same roll as a calculated roll of 4d3-8.
Gotta say, that Foundry is one time purchase for GMs only. If you are a player, you don't need to buy anything. Or your whole group can chip in for 1 license, that would cost them 2 months worth of subscription services cost for the whole perpetual license for the group.
I'd like to pitch in and say that-as unconventional as it sounds-Trello is pretty decent at tracking character sheets and scene / situation aspects. While you can't really draw a battle map, you can abstract it easily with a Map column, a card for each zone, and adding or removing people's faces on those cards to indicate which zone they're in. What I like about this is that you'll need to paint a picture with words, and that's actually what I like most about Fate anyways.
Well, my D&D 5.0 group has been using Fantasy Grounds for years now, so if I do get them to try Fate when our current campaign ends obviously we will stick with it. Using Steam for comms - mainly because of old computer issue of one player.
It would be nice of you to show free tools that go well together in combination. Maybe like Discord for calls + Owlbear for maps + Fari for notes and sheets. This is probably better than Role if you're fine with a few tabs, isn't it? Great work from you again. Keep going but don't burn yourself out. Views will probably come after some time
As far as the combination you mentioned being better than Role, that would be entirely dependent on what game you are playing, and how involved you want the maps to be. I like to do a lot of games with theater of the mind combat and all, and for that, I am all about Role. Having the character sheets right to the side of the chat (which frankly fills more of the screen and looks better than Discord at times) is absolutely perfect for that. But really, it all comes down to your needs and what works best for you. I just wanted to show off what each of these programs offers so folks could mix and match them based on their needs.
While I agree with a lot of your points, I find it odd you never brought up Discord's pop up window feature for voice calls, since, using it and another website you could be on the same screen most of the time.
After watching both videos I am still a little lost on how to apply the dice mechanics within the game Am I getting it right what every time I am doing action from opening the door to casting the spells I am rolling the dice? So lets say I am a detective and I am performing an action which is the room investigation, I am rolling 4 negatives so that probably means what I stepped on metal D4 and now I am looking at consequences Am I getting it?
If you have roller without Fate/Fudge dice: d4-d4 (aka 2d4-5) is -3 to +3 at almost identical distribution to 4dF, and d6-d6 (aka 2d6-7) is -5 to +5 at almost identical distribution to 8dF (opposed rolls).
The cough was meant as like...the awkward cough in a theater when something is presented expecting a reaction, but it is so unimpressive that no one really cares, so all you hear is that one, awkward cough.
Hope you all find this video useful! I know I don't go too in depth with any of these, but I hope I show enough off to help you decide which is right for you!
Also, I know some comments aren't showing up for some reason. Spent a good half an hour with TH-cam support trying to figure it out, but to no avail. Sorry, but know that I did still see and read them in my notifications, and I appreciate them!
These kinds of videos are a great share option for people who want to know where is the best place to play online for their particular needs. Love the videos!
Thanks much! I'd been wanting to make this video for like the last month, buuut I was so busy with the Cortex video and waiting for Role's character sheet update that it kept getting put off. Glad to hear you like it!
This TH-cam channel is just amazing. The editing, the script, the animations... Bravo!!
That said, I knew about FATE thanks to your video and I'm learning the system, so this video comes in handy! This content does definitely okay.
I'm sorry, english is not my first language
Basically one of the few Fate people I can get advice from. Thanks gamer.
Fari is quite nice and it's open source too so you can run it on your own computer or server.. which is a huge plus for me.
This is great! Thanks! I've been itching to run a Fate campaign with friends abroad, this is super helpful
Thanks for this great overview!
I’m a fan of keeping things as simple as possible. I’ve been loving Owlbear Rodeo with Zoom for the video and chat. I have two screens though, which I recognize is a luxury.
Although Owlbear doesn’t have integrations, I love being able to add sticky notes and hide or reveal elements during the game, the 3d style dice roller is fun, and we use it like a bit of a dashboard for the game. Most importantly it is super easy for the players to use. If Owlbear adds Fudge dice, I think it will meet all my needs. Fari looks great too!
We started using Table Top Simulator works very well. Voice and text chat only so no video. but tokens and sheets are easy to manage.
As always you manage to teach me something and laugh in the same time 😜. Thanks
This was very useful! I use Discord and Owlbear for D&D but your Cypher System video hooked me and I’d love a video like this for Cypher!
Cortex Prime too!
@@necrophage12 I'm planning on doing both! 😁
Yes please! To both Cypher and Cortex.
Thanks for all of these videos! You deserve more subs. Keep it up
Great video as usual! I’d love to see more videos like this for other systems, it was expertly put together!
Excellent video. Very fair and clear.
very useful, thanks!
Roll20's official character sheet customizes for any flavor of Fate. The GM should set what Fate options to use and what to delete for your particular game of Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, or Fate Condensed.
Nathan H. on Roll20 offered his template system to divide the tabletop into boxes for each character's Fate Point tokens, and central areas to list verbal aspects and zone maps.
Oh, and if your virtual tabletop doesn't have Fudge dice in particular, it's the same roll as a calculated roll of 4d3-8.
Gotta say, that Foundry is one time purchase for GMs only. If you are a player, you don't need to buy anything. Or your whole group can chip in for 1 license, that would cost them 2 months worth of subscription services cost for the whole perpetual license for the group.
I'd like to pitch in and say that-as unconventional as it sounds-Trello is pretty decent at tracking character sheets and scene / situation aspects. While you can't really draw a battle map, you can abstract it easily with a Map column, a card for each zone, and adding or removing people's faces on those cards to indicate which zone they're in. What I like about this is that you'll need to paint a picture with words, and that's actually what I like most about Fate anyways.
wow, nice idea
Fari has fate dice now
Well, my D&D 5.0 group has been using Fantasy Grounds for years now, so if I do get them to try Fate when our current campaign ends obviously we will stick with it. Using Steam for comms - mainly because of old computer issue of one player.
No, I didn’t watch the previous Fate video. Mom, pick me up, I’m scared
It would be nice of you to show free tools that go well together in combination. Maybe like Discord for calls + Owlbear for maps + Fari for notes and sheets. This is probably better than Role if you're fine with a few tabs, isn't it?
Great work from you again. Keep going but don't burn yourself out. Views will probably come after some time
As far as the combination you mentioned being better than Role, that would be entirely dependent on what game you are playing, and how involved you want the maps to be.
I like to do a lot of games with theater of the mind combat and all, and for that, I am all about Role. Having the character sheets right to the side of the chat (which frankly fills more of the screen and looks better than Discord at times) is absolutely perfect for that.
But really, it all comes down to your needs and what works best for you. I just wanted to show off what each of these programs offers so folks could mix and match them based on their needs.
Great vid thanks! :D
When I play online I still like to use my paper character sheet :)
(unless the GM prefers an online sheet to simplify things on their end)
More fate videos!
While I agree with a lot of your points, I find it odd you never brought up Discord's pop up window feature for voice calls, since, using it and another website you could be on the same screen most of the time.
After watching both videos I am still a little lost on how to apply the dice mechanics within the game
Am I getting it right what every time I am doing action from opening the door to casting the spells I am rolling the dice?
So lets say I am a detective and I am performing an action which is the room investigation, I am rolling 4 negatives so that probably means what I stepped on metal D4 and now I am looking at consequences
Am I getting it?
If you have roller without Fate/Fudge dice: d4-d4 (aka 2d4-5) is -3 to +3 at almost identical distribution to 4dF, and d6-d6 (aka 2d6-7) is -5 to +5 at almost identical distribution to 8dF (opposed rolls).
Don't do that. Just roll 6 sites dice.
1 and 2 are -
5 and 6 are +
That's all...
Good 🎉
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Does Role allow you to bring in pics? I use Zoom for voice or video
tabletop sim?
what with a cough
The cough was meant as like...the awkward cough in a theater when something is presented expecting a reaction, but it is so unimpressive that no one really cares, so all you hear is that one, awkward cough.