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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8086545" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>I don't particularly want automation at the point of play. Having things be automated means both I and my players lose a feel for how things are going or to exclaim over a big (or small) roll or to interject with a special ability at an opportune moment. I do like automation in the sense of macros to make rolls, because that makes it about as easy to roll on the VTT as it does IRL, instead of making a player type out a roll command or fiddle with a menu selection to roll the right dice. But, at that point, it's about it. </p><p></p><p>Of course, I started running online back in the late aughts on Gametable, a now defunct VTT that had, as you might expect, very limited tools. Still, you could draw more easily on that than you can on Roll20, so it did do some things better. So, I had my expectations and approach formed in an environment where a dice macro was the top end of available automation.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: huh, not as defunct as I believed. It's apparently been recently renamed and had a webpage sprucing by one of the community leaders in the old forums. Neat. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gameniantabele/" target="_blank">GamenianTabele</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8086545, member: 16814"] I don't particularly want automation at the point of play. Having things be automated means both I and my players lose a feel for how things are going or to exclaim over a big (or small) roll or to interject with a special ability at an opportune moment. I do like automation in the sense of macros to make rolls, because that makes it about as easy to roll on the VTT as it does IRL, instead of making a player type out a roll command or fiddle with a menu selection to roll the right dice. But, at that point, it's about it. Of course, I started running online back in the late aughts on Gametable, a now defunct VTT that had, as you might expect, very limited tools. Still, you could draw more easily on that than you can on Roll20, so it did do some things better. So, I had my expectations and approach formed in an environment where a dice macro was the top end of available automation. EDIT: huh, not as defunct as I believed. It's apparently been recently renamed and had a webpage sprucing by one of the community leaders in the old forums. Neat. [URL="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gameniantabele/"]GamenianTabele[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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