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D&D's Lead Slightly Increases On Roll20 & World of Darkness On The Rise
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<blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 7720429" data-attributes="member: 6804070"><p>I did this comparison a couple of years back (May 2015?) Here are the things that were important to me, and things that from my experience since then I would reccomend you consider;</p><p></p><p>1) Software Health - How often is the software update with new features? How quickly are bugs resolved? How long as the software been in production?</p><p>2) Software Architecture - Do you want all your data stored on your computer, or do you want it stored on somebody's server? Are you concerned what happens with what you create and purchase if the company goes out of business? Do you have a stable internet connection that you can host? Are you on someone else's network and are you going to have trouble allowing others to connect to you?</p><p>3) Community - How healthy is the user community? Is the community friendly and helpful to new users? Is the community tolerant of discussions of their competitors? (Or do they have a policy that such is forbidden and you will be banned if you ask?) How active is the community? Are the community leaders helpful to new people?</p><p>4) Technical Support - Can you get support from the community and/or company in a timely manner? This also ties into how friendly and helpful the community is and how quickly bugs are resolved.</p><p>5) How easy is the application to use during gameplay?</p><p>6) How easy is it for the DM/GM to create content? Homebrew (maps, races, spells, items, NPCs...)</p><p>7) Automation - Does the system handle things like hit and damage resolution? Conditions and effects? Are these built in or do you have to build them (macros or scripts) yourself?</p><p>8) Publisher support - Are the systems you want to use supported? To what level? Some product or all products? What about 3rd party products for such systems?</p><p></p><p>All that said, my decision was FG for 3 reasons; 1) Official 5E support with all products, 2) Community friendliness and support, 3) Ease of content/DM/GM creation</p><p></p><p>More questions should probably be directed to a different thread (either a new one or one of the old ones that discuss these).</p><p>7)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LordEntrails, post: 7720429, member: 6804070"] I did this comparison a couple of years back (May 2015?) Here are the things that were important to me, and things that from my experience since then I would reccomend you consider; 1) Software Health - How often is the software update with new features? How quickly are bugs resolved? How long as the software been in production? 2) Software Architecture - Do you want all your data stored on your computer, or do you want it stored on somebody's server? Are you concerned what happens with what you create and purchase if the company goes out of business? Do you have a stable internet connection that you can host? Are you on someone else's network and are you going to have trouble allowing others to connect to you? 3) Community - How healthy is the user community? Is the community friendly and helpful to new users? Is the community tolerant of discussions of their competitors? (Or do they have a policy that such is forbidden and you will be banned if you ask?) How active is the community? Are the community leaders helpful to new people? 4) Technical Support - Can you get support from the community and/or company in a timely manner? This also ties into how friendly and helpful the community is and how quickly bugs are resolved. 5) How easy is the application to use during gameplay? 6) How easy is it for the DM/GM to create content? Homebrew (maps, races, spells, items, NPCs...) 7) Automation - Does the system handle things like hit and damage resolution? Conditions and effects? Are these built in or do you have to build them (macros or scripts) yourself? 8) Publisher support - Are the systems you want to use supported? To what level? Some product or all products? What about 3rd party products for such systems? All that said, my decision was FG for 3 reasons; 1) Official 5E support with all products, 2) Community friendliness and support, 3) Ease of content/DM/GM creation More questions should probably be directed to a different thread (either a new one or one of the old ones that discuss these). 7) [/QUOTE]
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