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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5381618" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Here's the thing though, the VTT is kind of a lynch pin. What does a 'campaign builder' DO if it doesn't tie into SOMETHING that you can use to build encounters and whatever? If it isn't somehow integrated with other stuff it isn't anything but yet another Wiki and there are a billion free Wikis you can use to put your campaign up on. </p><p></p><p>In other words each tool really gains its value from the existence of all the other tools in the set that it can integrate with. A VTT BY ITSELF is not worth that much, at best it might be a bit better than Maptool or something, but probably not even that good for a while until it matures. </p><p></p><p>But if you can have a VTT, an MB, a CB, a campaign tool to customize your house rules with and tie in the other content to your 'Wiki' etc. then they all start to be worth a lot even if no one of them is perfect. The sum total starts to be worth using.</p><p></p><p>I mean I use Maptool right now every week. It is a great program, but it requires a LOT of spit, bailing wire, chewing gum, duct tape, and perl scripting to actually make it so I have a tolerably usable environment where I can pull in stuff and drop it into MT and use it easily. As much as I like MT I'd use a less capable VTT that did that for me, and I'd PAY for it because right now doing that stuff costs me 4-5 hours a week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5381618, member: 82106"] Here's the thing though, the VTT is kind of a lynch pin. What does a 'campaign builder' DO if it doesn't tie into SOMETHING that you can use to build encounters and whatever? If it isn't somehow integrated with other stuff it isn't anything but yet another Wiki and there are a billion free Wikis you can use to put your campaign up on. In other words each tool really gains its value from the existence of all the other tools in the set that it can integrate with. A VTT BY ITSELF is not worth that much, at best it might be a bit better than Maptool or something, but probably not even that good for a while until it matures. But if you can have a VTT, an MB, a CB, a campaign tool to customize your house rules with and tie in the other content to your 'Wiki' etc. then they all start to be worth a lot even if no one of them is perfect. The sum total starts to be worth using. I mean I use Maptool right now every week. It is a great program, but it requires a LOT of spit, bailing wire, chewing gum, duct tape, and perl scripting to actually make it so I have a tolerably usable environment where I can pull in stuff and drop it into MT and use it easily. As much as I like MT I'd use a less capable VTT that did that for me, and I'd PAY for it because right now doing that stuff costs me 4-5 hours a week. [/QUOTE]
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