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As I said, the D&DBeyond approach seems to put the automation into the character sheets. Having run FantasyGround and played on both Roll20 and D&DBeyonds Maps I have mixed feeling about automation. It is really nice when it works but there are enough corner cases to be annoying. D&Dbeyond just...

It is also reported to support 2d maps.

Totally agree, since a blog widget would give about 80& of the needed functionality. These things are off the shelf for a number of coding platforms.

Probably because those likely to be positive are not inclined to post until there is something to be positive about. Other than the screenshots and some positive comment from the like of ProfessorDM from quite some time back. We know almost nothing of worth about the proposed VTT. The one...

we do not know enough to have a better thread. We know so little so it is all idle speculation.

Ma deuce, the Browning .50calibre machine gun.

Yes, this tooling is being rolled out, but I stand by my assertion. The feeling you are expressing are little different (though less hostile in language) from much of what I heard back in the eighties and nineties from wargamers about first D&D and latter from D&D grogs regarding Magic: The...

A lot here could depend on the success or otherwise of third party material. If some of the 5e clones really gain traction or some of their rules become common house rules, I could see those elements becoming incorporated in to official 5e. On the other hand if MCDM or Daggerheart become really...

I would point out that D&DBeyond offers a lot of automation (not complete) via the character sheet and the encounter builder. their VTTs do not need to do much more than accept the outputs from that.

I think if they are looking for beta testers there is something to beta test. As to how useful it is, that remains to be seen. On the other hand given that they are opening D&DBeyond to third parties, I think that they would be smart to make it system neutral in the core and add on rules...

It was cancelled, there was a thread and article here about it.

You could be right, I would have to sit down and do the math but I expect all current videos to be more gut reactions than calculated analysis from all YouTubers for a while yet. Infact I would not expect any useful analysis until people have played for a while and seen the Monster Manual.

This is somewhat inevitable given the times but table top will never die. Table top wargaming did not die. It was not replaced by either rpgs not Magic: The Gathering, despite the fears at the time. It will not completely die in the future but there is likely be more growth at the moment in the...

Even owning the book does not allow one to post images of every page online.

I believe that the video that was pulled is one where he shows each page long enough that one could transcribe the book from his video. I believe that showing an entire work is a copyright violation.

That would be an improvement on the current mess, then give him a whiskey or other spirit of choice and ask him to do it again with invisibility :)

Someone at Gencon get Jeremy Crawford to sit down and outline a turn by burn description of how this would play out in practise.

On the topic of stealth in armour this video is worth a look. starting at about 4:14

Every concentration spell makes the caster a target but before now Witch Bolt was not worth the preparation slot.

I simply disagree.