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<blockquote data-quote="bert1001 fka bert1000" data-source="post: 8981489" data-attributes="member: 7029588">For me, it's not even that my imagination is always better than an artist rendition, but the &quot;game is mostly in your head&quot; is one of the key selling points for a traditional in person rpg for me.&nbsp; And highly differentiating from board games and video games.I actually don't find most 2-D maps and tokens that distracting though.&nbsp; Even if they are detailed, I can still see them as placeholders.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the virtual versions are still trying to emulate the table top. &nbsp;I'm really not sure about something like this new 3D VTT though.&nbsp;&nbsp; Only the most hard core 3-d terrain and minis people would have anything even remotely like this on the real world table top.&nbsp; &nbsp;For me, it may not really matter in the end for remote play, as it is different enough from face to face already and you are staring at the screen anyway so perhaps why not take advantage of being digital.&nbsp;&nbsp; No way I would use something like this in person though, even if projected on one screen.&nbsp; And definitely not multiple laptops like the demo (I know that was probably just to make it easier to demo but it makes for a very unappealing scene for me).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bert1001 fka bert1000, post: 8981489, member: 7029588"] For me, it's not even that my imagination is always better than an artist rendition, but the "game is mostly in your head" is one of the key selling points for a traditional in person rpg for me. And highly differentiating from board games and video games. I actually don't find most 2-D maps and tokens that distracting though. Even if they are detailed, I can still see them as placeholders. And the virtual versions are still trying to emulate the table top. I'm really not sure about something like this new 3D VTT though. Only the most hard core 3-d terrain and minis people would have anything even remotely like this on the real world table top. For me, it may not really matter in the end for remote play, as it is different enough from face to face already and you are staring at the screen anyway so perhaps why not take advantage of being digital. No way I would use something like this in person though, even if projected on one screen. And definitely not multiple laptops like the demo (I know that was probably just to make it easier to demo but it makes for a very unappealing scene for me). [/QUOTE]

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