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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9410796" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Yes, I am glad we established that a company selling a product will attempt to sell a product. Truly terrifying.So, the rules that barely exist for a thing that very few people do, might get erased? All because WoTC won't want people to figure out a game famous for making your own stuff might allow you to make your own stuff, and they want you to not make things to use their VTT instead. Which, I would point out... is a completely nonsensical position for WoTC to take.So you don't think the rules will be removed from the game. So the Core Rulebooks will not be changed. Just that people playing on the VTT might not use as many custom options as people who play pencil and paper? Also, you keep talking about the Apple store effect, but you don't seem to understand how Apple operates. Apple doesn't just make it easier to use their products, they make it IMPOSSIBLE to use their competitors. I have a Kindle from Amazon, Amazon doesn't like Google. It was literally impossible to open and edit my Google Docs on my Kindle. Even going to the google website on my Kindle, and trying to open the document to edit it, took me to a different page. If you go to the Apple app store, there are products you literally cannot purchase and use. THAT is the Apple store effect, THAT is a walled garden. Apple makes using non-apple approved things IMPOSSIBLE on the device you are using to access those things. Even if the VTT makes it super smooth and easy to integrate your DDB character sheet... well, I know there is a discord bot for Avrae which also integrates your DDB character sheet. People use that in my discord games consistently. We don't play on a VTT. People are already used to going to Roll20 or Foundry and using their materials to make custom things for their characters, and the character sheets they have access to. If WoTC makes a VTT that cannot handle custom content, then for a lot of people, the fact that it integrates the DDB character sheet which ALSO doesn't use that custom content (which, by the way, it currently DOES allow custom content so it would have to lose that function) then they will just continue using the products they are using which fit their needs better, and ignore WoTC.Yes, those things are nothing. Because those things ALREADY EXIST FROM OTHER VTT's. Maybe you have heard about Talespire? [ATTACH=full]373624[/ATTACH]And even if you go on about how WoTC will make a better version of this, an even more amazing version... you aren't even calling that the core rulebooks will change anymore. Just that the way people play will involve fewer people making custom things for their games. On the assumption that custom modding, an incredibly common feature in VTTs, won't exist but that people will be drawn to WoTC's game because it will be convenient.</blockquote>

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