Although you can buy rulesets for Roll20, they appear to be more D&D and Pathfinder focused. I’m actually quite excited about some of the rulesets which Fantasy Grounds provides – Call of Cthulhu and Starfinder are already on my list of games, but games like RoleMaster, Mutants and Masterminds and even Traveller feature high on my list to play – even Deadlands sounds appealing. Rules and Modulesīoth platforms have the availability of purchasing ruleset. Maybe, removing some of the automation would actually provide more understanding of the game mechanics. I’m down for learning the system (aka writing all my skills with very easy through Herculean on my paper character sheet) It could be that if I moved some of the games to Fantasy Grounds, players would need to be more involved in what and when to roll things – is this a good thing or not, I’m not sure – although one of my players commented Also, calculations like encumbrance are actually done automatically – which means that people not only trust these, but also rely on them. On the Mythras sheet you press a button for initiative – do we actually know which dice this is? Even I need to try to remember. Sometimes I wonder whether or not the character sheets on Roll20 actually makes the dice rolls too easy. When I started to play RPGs there was no computers – so we rolled everything and had to remember which dice to roll when. It is not only the character sheet which aare game specific, I’m not sure whether I could do much with things like the combat tracker for my games, apart from the order of attacking – which is readily available in Roll20. Yes, I know there are rulesets such as CoreRPG and MoreCore, but these would require quite a bit of work to actually implement and even then, they have areas such as ‘Hit Points’ which do not feature in some of my games – Mythras has hit points per location and Shadowrun has two condition monitor tracks. Although I have played 5e D&D before, it is not one of my regular systems – but it does appear that many of the features for Fantasy Ground are based on specific games. Mythras, Shadowrun, Starfinder and Call of Cthulhu so I have been happy with Roll20 as long as there is a character sheet to match my game.
I tend to play quite minor league games – e.g. One thing I really like about Roll20 is the range of games you can actually play on the system. I wrote a blog post some time ago about Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds but I have yet again come to point that I want to compare the two major RPG platforms online and, by blogging about it, hopefully come to some decision which one I want to use. No, I’m not going to enter the great debate about the banning of people from the Reddit or the ‘5 white guy comment’, although it was probably both of these which made me rethink which platform I go with.
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