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My comments were directed at 5e DMs, not at GMs of other RPG systems (though there are many of them well supported on FVTT ,too, as you know). I find most of that not to be reasons, so much as excuses. They don't want to do it because of what amounts to inertia. They have not seen what's...

All of my players are on fast internet - and we go one step further. There are no Wi-fI connection permitted in our games. You must plug in to your router with a hard-wired connection.

Well, it goes like this: my wife pre-ordered the board game. So no joy until March. After that? I will be beavering away trying to do it. There are some others on the SotDQ discord who are talking about doing it too -- one of em at least got the Deluxe Ed and has the game. So there's that at...

The problem with Arkenforge is that is hits the 3d graphics chip on a computer pretty hard just for fog of war effect on a 10x20 peasant's cottage in the middle of a grassy field! I have a pretty beefy rig, but my 3d cards were getting long in the tooth. I planned to replace it in 2020... and...

There will be TONS of animations, just not in the way you meant (on what you mean? We mostly agree). I expect every single spell in the game to have a VFX particle animation for it. While it is true that those do not use Kinetic rigging for limb movement (or whatever - which is what you...

Foundry = 150 5'sq. 50 is as low as FVTT can go. It won't let you go lower than that. These are programs which operate with radically different art requirements & assumptions.

Earlier this year In May of 2022, Foundry VTT's 2nd anniversary, there were 52,000 foundry servers (each is a licensee). The numbers will have increased since then... how many? I don't know. Previous percentage breakdowns of their userbase last May 2022 was 5e 65% PF2 20% PF1/SF 5%, with the...

Roll20 has been bleeding tens of thousands of customers to Foundry VTT for nearly 3 years. FG has lost them, too, albeit, in smaller numbers as they have a much smaller userbase to begin with. The main reason people stayed with Roll20 is they either: 1) aren't familiar with Foundry VTT and the...

No. They don't. Most run at 50-70 at any one point in time, with various teams being rolled in and out of active production depending on the productions stage. Some massive titles can go to 3 times that at peak staffing. There is no Triple AAA game that has had 350 employees on site...

I have severe doubts that there is anywhere near that number of people hired for this gig. I expect a rationalization of who is paying many existing employees and a relcassifcation of which "division" is paying them within Hasbro is the real culprit here. 350 would be a LOT for even the...

I don't think this is going to happen at all the way most here are hoping. There is a pretty hardcore homebrew crowd on ENWorld and they see the world through those lenses. Nope. They will support it, sure, but that's not the focus. When you think back to the original Neverwinter Nights 1...

Nah, that's my fault for not understanding that the price on DDB/ WotC's website was converted to $CAD, or if it wasn't for assuming that was the street price in $USD. I do see that the deluxe version is available at 401 Games in Toronto for $149.99 CAD. So maybe my wife does get it for me...

Unreal 5 is a game engine - it is not a 3d file format. Those are two different things. This is not pure speculation. I ran the main mod team for Neverwinter Nights 1 (DLA) and my team ultimately made the assets for BioWare's DLC for that game. We made the final expansion for that game (Wyvern...

Nobody has missed that point at all - because nobody is even discussing it. The "point" people are discussing is if the VTT will be "closed", in the sense that you can only use their 3d art and textures they sell to you -- and not your own 3d assets and textures you created (or far more likely...

When it comes to working with 3d assets? An inability to import models into the setting is the default state of all games. It's hard for end users to approach this as a game developer does, but the software plug-in that WotC will create for its 3d assets will be designed to export a model from...

Foundry VTT became an officially licensee of Paizo earlier this year. Buying the code through paizo.com and redeeming that code on Foundry's server is how all of their licensed products work, be it Adventures or Art packs. It's not any more complicated than that. To be fair, all of this art is...

You aren't wrong about that motivation, but this speaks to my cautionary note: there is no reason to believe, NONE, that any WotC 3d VTT would offer superior tech to competitors. And those competitors are well motivated to NOT lock down their software in a similar manner. As I have mentioned...

No, because probably 6-7k of those patreons are in at the prior rate of $3 per month. That tier is no longer available, but those who did enter at that rate did not have to pay more when it went up (as it typical at most patreons). As I said though, Mr. Primate is doing very well with his DDB...

A full campaign of interlocking adventures - and it's not even close. That doesn't mean that I won't cut parts of the adventure, alter here and there, and add things over there. I do that all the time and consider it to be fun. Thing is, I only have so much time to homebrew -- and I also spend...

That's the sort of attitude that saw 4th Ed D&D get pushed off of store shelves not a decade ago. The brand went from #1 to NOT AVAILABLE with that attitude. D&D surrendered the pole position in the RPG marketplace for ~5 years with that kind of delusional talk. The most remarkable thing isn't...