As I've commented in other threads, I think over-dependence on online tools can be bad.
1) You can lose them if the service goes out of business, stops supporting your edition, etc.
2) From my experience, no VTT is completely stable. My Foundry crashes several times per session.
3) You have to pay monthly or annual subscription fees, hosting fees, etc.
4) If you stop paying subscription fees, you usually lose access to your content.
5) If you are at an in-person game day, you can't just casually play the game.
6) It requires a lot more prep than an in-person game - adding maps, tokens, etc.
The thing that is amazing to me is that PF2 was designed before the pandemic, before the explosion of VTTs and automated tools. Paizo actually thought this game was playable without these resources and would be a more streamlined edition of their previous game.
1) You can self host Foundry VTT on your own computer, back it up on a HDD, never lose anything (unless your house burns down).
2) Foundry VTT has never crashed once for me (self hosted) in over 500 hours of usage.
3) Not if you self host.
4) see 3)
5) Never tried it but in this day and age your players could use tablets to access their Foundry character sheet perhaps?
6) I disagree, it takes some time to get used to the system (arguably easier if you are computer savvy and like to tinker with programs) once you've done that it saves you a lot of prep time as per my experience.
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