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At this point, he should know.

I feel like every time this guy opens his mouth. My esteem of Wizards of the Coast drops to an even lower point. I can’t begin to count all of the dysfunctional markers I’m seeing in what he’s saying about how they operate. Nobody knows what’s going on. Nobody’s telling anyone anything. Oh oops...

My argument isn’t that LotR couldn’t make a good TV show, I think it could. But rather than the poster I replied to using the film as an argument that it should have been a TV show, which makes no sense to me. And that by that logic e.g. BttF would likewise make for a great TV show. Yes, long...

By that logic Back to the Future is likewise better fit for a TV show, which I don’t think it is. The two are radically different formats. LotR was spectacularly successful as films; that doesn’t automatically suggest it would thrive under the very different restrictions of a TV production. But...

I think it's a little reductive to call it 'a miniseries'. And no, nothing has come close on the big screen, but then that's arguably true for the small screen as well.

It proves it in how it became a world-wide phenomenon, beloved by critics and layman alike? 😄

Are there any published adventures/campaigns that move around the multiverse in some sort of jolly fashion?

Fair. For anyone? 😄 — This was more meant to be my verdict, that arguably the constraints across the board outweigh the upsides. I love Owlbear Rodeo. But it's not a 1:1 comparison with the other VTTs. I'm a one-stop-shop kinda guy myself, if it can be gotten without too much downside. Friends...

But the point is that it's not simply a linear ramp of improvement from 'bad graphics' through to 'real world graphics'. 1. There are real costs associated with creating a system that can deliver better graphics. The higher fidelity, the more storage and bandwidth is needed. 2. Likewise the...

100% this. I did the same, and it's just oodles of complexity. I also worked at a large computer games company which pursued doing 3D world building tools for "everyman" and it's doable, but the WORK involved is tedious. The prep is multitudes worse than anything else a GM might otherwise do...

I meant in relation to this thread and the idea of WotC buying Foundry (which makes, like, no sense at all).

Yes, completely agreed in the case of ARcana and its ilk, that the graphics are the point. But my post was in reference to e.g. Jaeger complaining about other VTTs (which I took to mean Roll20, Fantasy Grounds and Foundry in particular).

Did everyone miss that WotC bought D&D Beyond this morning?

I think the point about VTTs not being graphically impressive is a misunderstanding of the primary purposes of VTTs. It isn't to make TTRPGs more like CRPGs or more "impressive". It's first and foremost to allow for people to play remotely with one another. The graphical side of that is...