so yes i’m trying to find a good screen sharing program. needs to work for android and either linux or web, and i’d love it if there’s a way to play music (without everyone getting muted like in jitsi meet), and even more if there’s a way to draw on the screen so that players can more easily show where they’re going for me to move their tokens.

also yes those are mouse-drawn pf2e kobolds. i love kobolds, but only the pf2e kobolds because they’re drawn way cuter

  • festnt@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    9 hours ago

    sono seems pretty good, but it seems to not have mobile (android) support, or hexagon grid maps (my group prefers those since it’s easier to calculate movement and stuff)

    discord doesn’t work well for me. any player with slightly bad internet connection simply cannot load the shared screen, i don’t want to install it so audio sharing through screen sharing is not possible, no drawing on shared screen is possible, and there are so many times that one person will just not be able to hear anyone or noone will be able to hear them, for no apparent reason.

    i don’t want to use a vtt because i havent found any that was good and had mobile support (one of my players doesn’t have a pc). editing the map however and whenever i want is also good to have, in case players modify part of the map (like moving chairs and stuff).

    i will probably just find a way to play music directly through mic output and forget about the drawing on screen possibility, since it seems like it’s not possible.

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Well, using OBS to put together the different aspects of video and audio that you want, then outputting a virtual camera source for another app to pick up seems like it could work for you if you spend the time setting it up… Except for anyone that doesn’t have the internet to see a video stream - that seems tough to work with.

      • ToeKneegee@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I used to use OBS with a second screen for my IRL games. I could set it up to display art of NPCs or track initiative or whatever else. Now we use a TV screen with Foundry running.

    • MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I really like OwlBear Rodeo. It is system agnostic simple tabletop. There is a learning curve but it’s pretty easy. It’s also great on tablets and decent on phones.

      The best part is that there are a lot of 3rd party extensions to dial in your specific game mechanics. I’ve been playing Dragonbane and it has some funky mechanics that someone else made work well in OBR.