wbcreighton
First Post
What I like about maptool is that you really don't need frameworks. you can make macros for die rolls and use squares or hexes for the maps and use any picture you want as a background. You really don't need to imbed the rules for any game. You don't have that at the tabletop and don't really need it online.
I agree you don't need frameworks. You don't need to imbed the rules.
But you normally do have the rule books and character sheets and dice and miniatures and maps and adventure writeup ( behind a screen ) on your table top right ? Its not just a battle map, miniatures, and dice.
So FGII is attempting to recreate your gaming tabletop, not just your battle map. I believe the idea behind MT frameworks, Chartool, Iniattool (sp) is to help recreate a tabletop environment on your computer.
I like the idea of using the computer to help recreate that environment and to do what computers do best: calculate things, organize and save data, and give you cool visuals, maybe even sound effects, music, video etc.
I think that if you want to compare different VTTs you also have to understand what they are trying to do and what they are capable of.