Shmeppy VS Dungeon Tile Mapper

Shmeppy mentions (22)

• Struggling as a DM to handle VTT

  Shmeppy is particularly good for little to no prep time play. Not free though. Source: 12 months ago

• What digital tool do you need as a GM/Player ?

  You probably already heard about this one, but just in case, I have heard good things about https://shmeppy.com/ for this sort of purpose. It is not free though, and I have not had a chance to try it out myself yet. Source: over 1 year ago

• Alternatives to roll20?

  I really like shmeppy. It's got a very intuitive and fast user interface, great for rules light games and maps that you improvise as you play. Source: over 1 year ago

• Running a dungeon virtually

  I converted my in-person game to full virtual at the end of The Before Times and it’s been fairly pain-free. We use Discord for voice chat and dice rolls, and Shmeppy (https://shmeppy.com/) for maps. Its somewhat low fidelity but it works for most dungeons you’ll do. Tokens, fog of war, etc. It’s not free either but $5/month is cheaper than the cost of [insert nerd food stereotype here] every week 🤷🏼‍♂️. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

  Https://shmeppy.com A single node process serves everything on a Ubuntu digital ocean server. It’s managed by the daemon utility. PostgreSQL holds all the data. There’s some significant in-memory caching in node. The server code is written in typescript and JavaScript. During deploys I t’s transpired on my laptop and then rsynced to the server. Monitoring and backups are done via cron jobs on another digital ocean... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Dungeon Tile Mapper mentions (0)