D&D (2024) I am highly skeptical of the Unreal VTT

Retreater said:

Here's what I don't like about it.

• Many players are already invested in a VTT. That investment will be made worthless in a couple years - or you can't play the current edition.
• You're going to be paying to customize your token (a la HeroForge). We can currently just pull images from the Internet, make our own, or even use generic tokens. I'll bet that's not possible in this 3d environment.
• My current setup has some lag when a teenager is playing online games, my wife is streaming HBO, and I'm running a game on voice chat and a VTT. This stuff isn't going to work, and I'll bet it's going to require a high end PC to do what you're seeing in the preview.
• We've been burnt before (Gleemax?) I don't believe WotC can even pull this off.
• Purchasing piecemeal monsters and other components from their adventures means DMs will have to "unlock" creatures to be able to use them in homebrew. (It's like Pokemon Go or something.)
• It's tied in with D&D Beyond. And I don't use D&D Beyond.
• 3PP will be screwed unless they can keep up with the programming and have access to use the proprietary system.

If this turns out to be a subscription-based suite of microtransactions like I'm reading, they can keep it.

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LordEntrails said:

But yeah, not only am I skeptical of them being able to deliver on their vision, I don't think I want it to succeed either.

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GMforPowergamers said:

I guess I should be careful how much I spend on roll20 going forward

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MonsterEnvy said:

How do you know you have to pay to customize?

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MonsterEnvy said:

Like I am getting the impression here that we have a bunch of grumpy people who don't want new fangled things they are not used to like D&D Beyond and a 3d tabletop coming into what they are not used to. Like I am amazed how many people are so resistant to Beyond.

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Reynard said:

That's hilarious.

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Reynard said:

I mean, you could read the actual concerns instead of inventing what you think people are concerned about.

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