D&D 4E D&D Game Table Helpful for 4E Success?

[joshuha]

I run a Ptolus campaign in Fantasy Grounds and am a player in 2 other campaigns with Fantasy Grounds as well.

Also going to be setting up a Savage Worlds campaign soon (as the offical Savage Worlds FG ruleset is coming out at Gencon and I helped develop it).

From the initial reads of the Digital Game Table I am seeing 3 times a month as what you get for the "base" package", whatever that means. If thats the case I am guessing you then either pay per game or some higher tiered subscription model. Its my hope then that Wizards game table brings people into the Virtual Table world and then they go seek other and maybe better offerings that offer more game systems than just D&D.

 

[Irda Ranger]

I clicked "Yes", but that's not quite right.

I play in a regular group that meets at the GM's place (usually), but one guy can only make it in half the time. The other half of the time he phones it in via Skype video chat. We sit my MacBook in his regular seat with the screen facing the table. We can see him on the monitor, and he can see us through the built in iSight webcam. When the DM loads a map from his online tool (I forget which one he uses - but he has a projector, and throws it up on the wall behind him), we can either turn the MacBook so Chris can "see" the maps too, or he can log in to the website repository from his computer (assuming there's no GM-only info).

We had to cobble a bunch of tools and apps together to make this work, so if WotC can deliver on a single package that doesn't drop calls - awesome.

But it HAS to be cross-platform. We've got three Mac fanboys, a Linux geek, a Windows 2000 grognard and only one Windows XP user.

I expect it will be cross-platform however. It only takes one person in a dedicated group who can't log on for the whole group to go looking for alternatives. WotC must know this. Even if Mac & Linux are only 6% of the PC market, I bet a much-higher-than-6 percent of gaming groups has at least one player who uses a non-XP/Vista OS. Even if that's only 10% of the market (but probably 15-20%), that's too many people to write off.

Here's hoping, anyway.