

Playing in person, I made a lot of papercraft maps and items to get a very 3D feeling on the cheap. It was a lot of work, but my players loved it.
My current game is fully remote, and I’m finding I like creating digital stuff for Foundry even more than I liked papercraft. For non-combat stuff I set up splash screens with a piece of art showing the location, and then pop-up insert images with portraits of NPCs they meet. When it comes to combat, there are lots of really quality battlemap creators out there, with a lot of free options.
Better they go into buttholes after I’ve handled them than before.
You’re getting downvoted by people, but your position is totally valid.
“Linux works perfectly for everything if you just don’t do the thing you want to do” is a less than compelling argument.