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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4800197" data-attributes="member: 22779">For the novelty of it, I completely agree with Joe here.I think there is a HUGE market for this sort of thing.  It already exists, so, it has to be at least somewhat viable.  OpenRPG, pretty much any night of the week, will have a few games being run as one shots.  Mostly D&D, but also some others from time to time.A 4e VTT that is geared specifically to 4e?  That's something that I think would work extremely well.  Those who want long term campaigns can do so, and those who just want some one shots get to play too.  Everyone wins.Something I cannot fathom, for the life of me, is why 3pp aren't jumping on this.  You take something like Maptools, with a large community of very helpful people, and design a whole suite of plugins and macros to run your game - Vampire, M&M, D&D, Pathfinder, whatever (some of which are already done) - and then you go back to your forums and post that you are starting an online initiative.  The developers the host resources for games and help out.  Once you build that community, it becomes pretty much self sustaining.  Now you can reach all those people who would like to play your game, but, because of geography or personal scheduling issues, can't.There must be some part of the equation I'm missing, because this just seems like a huge benefit for smaller press games.</blockquote>