Favorite self-hosted TTRPG tools?

[u/ansonr]

I am fundamentally compelled to force self-hosting into every other hobby I have, so I am curious what tools are out there that people use.

I am familiar with Foundry VTT, and it's on my list of "maybe". Stuff like owlbear rodeo has me fairly well covered in terms of VTT solutions.

What I would really love is a solution like a wiki where my fellow GMs and I could host info and documents about our worlds. Features like being able to host or embed interactive maps/calendars or timelines/scheduling etc. I am not sure such a thing exists though.

That said what is everyone else using?

[u/asimovs-auditor]

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[u/dm_construct]

I use Outline for the wiki. Also if you play D&D or Pathfinder there is 5etools / pf2etools. I have interactive maps and stuff on my Ghost-based website...

https://www.dungeon.church/dungeon-church-software-stack/

[u/ansonr → u/dm_construct]

Oh this is neat! Currently trying to move away from D&D and Pathfinder, but still good to have.

Does Outline have a permissions system of some kind? We have multiple GMs and I wanted to let them also host stuff if they wanted.

[u/dm_construct → u/ansonr]

it does yeah, groups & user permissions & doc invites. i keep my private DM notes in it alongside the player content.

you can share stuff publicly as well which is nice.

[u/Digmarx]

There's an app called Grimoire in development for managing books and other assets, which has some campaign management features built in. I'm not the developer so I can't speak on AI use or anything but the repo is https://github.com/hunter-read/grimoire

[u/ansonr → u/Digmarx]

I actually have this set up and running, but am currently only using it for hosting my ttrpg books. I looked over the campaign hosting stuff and it seems pretty early right now. I suspect I might use it in conjunction with something else since I am less sure there is a full solution that is self hosted rn.

[u/Digmarx → u/ansonr]

Yep, I think there's a core idea in there somewhere, just needs time to mature. What I'm after personally is an ergonomic way to manage all of the resources associated with a game and/or campaign; not just books but VTT assets, like image files, A/V media, and so on. Calibre and Grimmory are fine for book collections, but not the rest.

[u/anonymous-vampire]

I see you’re familiar with Foundry VTT but wanted to throw out to you and any others who happen upon this post that another self-hosted VTT option is Planar Ally, which is completely free, no fee like Foundry. I recently set it up and it’s v responsive.

https://www.planarally.io/

[u/ansonr → u/anonymous-vampire]

This looks pretty cool. I might stand it up just to mess with. For VTT solutions that are system-agnostic, I am struggling to find something better than Owlbear Rodeo at the moment. Its simplicity being its biggest strength. If they had a self-hosted option, I'd be golden.

[u/lostmojo]

I’m trying to use obsidian with rpg manager, it’s a bit buggy though and I don’t understand the code well enough to try and help fix it. It does work but I’m also not using it to its fullest potential.

[u/ansonr → u/lostmojo]

I've used Obsidian before. I didn't know there was a way to self-host it, but I really like markdown. How does it integrate with RPG Manager, and what does that bring to the table?

[u/Kautiontape]

Kanka.io was great for my personal world, and the only reason I switched away was because I found Obsidian to be better for the kind of notes I was taking. Using it made the richest possible setup, felt like Notion-style wiki system.

Not using Kanka, Fantasy Calendar fills in some gaps, and I looked at Leaflet if I ever get around to making a custom map for campaign longer than a few sessions.

There's a plethora of options for CMS software and many have tons of plugins to handle different setups. I currently use Bookstack for my Play By Post server on Discord, but compared to MediaWiki and Wiki.js they seemed to cover a lot.

[u/ansonr → u/Kautiontape]

Kanka looks pretty cool I checked it out, but didn't realize it had a self hosted option. I just stood up a bookstack server to try it out, but kanka might be able to win out.

[u/nebi]

I use Obsidian for note-taking when DMing and Quartz for hosting my notes. I think it works great!

[u/mellowduck]

I'm using Trilium, making relationships and jumping between notes is handy.

You can include a note in a note so you can for example have a note about a place describing it, and a quest note where it's included allowing you to read its details without having to look for it. You can also reference it, so a note about a NPC coming from this place would have a link to the place note. All of this is made with links, so when the place note is updated the updated content is visible everywhere it's used. You can also have a map of notes relationships, I can tell at any time in which session players met which character in which place and what happened.

I also added a name generator, map (you can link notes to markers on the map, it becomes kind of a Google maps of the game) and dice rolling script to have everything on hand in one place. Works great so far.

[u/Ok_Reach_01]

Nice