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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9616372" data-attributes="member: 7026617">It was a progressive thing.First, I was using my VTT of choice (Maptool) as a convenient way to handle a battlemap and tokens before I was using it remotely; initially I projected it on a large-screen TV which was much more practical than manipulating tokens and miniatures on a physical battlemap.  Pretty soon we started using it through people's laptops since everyone had one anyway, or was sitting next to someone with one.Then some of our farther travellers (I'm in the Los Angeles County basin, and besides having players all over that (before our more recent one in Minnesota), we had people in Orange and Riverside County) started just playing remotely to cut out the extremely long drives.Then COVID happened and our play shifted over to remote play entirely for safety reasons.Now we're used enough to it that there simply doesn't seem like any overwhelming reason to change back; we don't get so much out of the direct human contact that we feel a need to do the drives involved.</blockquote>