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Pen & Paper Roleplaying Central => Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion => Topic started by: Heavy Josh on March 29, 2020, 05:51:48 PM

Title: Astral Online RPing
Post by: Heavy Josh on March 29, 2020, 05:51:48 PM
Has anyone tried http://https://www.astraltabletop.com/ (http://https://www.astraltabletop.com/)

It's by the same people that do Drivethrurpg.com.  I like Roll20, but I'm finding that the servers are groaning under the understandable increase in traffic (including me, I've never run games online before 10 days ago).

Are there major advantages to one of the platforms? Is Roll20 better? Astral?
Title: Astral Online RPing
Post by: Valatar on March 29, 2020, 11:21:37 PM
I lean more towards Fantasy Grounds than any of the subscription services, since I prefer buying a thing outright over having to pay monthly forever.  Plus since it's self-hosted you don't have to worry about someone else's servers being busted.  But as the subscription services go, since Roll20 is run by customer-hostile asshats who go on banning sprees whenever anyone has any criticism of their product, my recommendation is that anyone other than Roll20 is the better solution.