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<blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 7788456" data-attributes="member: 261"><p>And another thing that's changed for me (I was thinking about this on the way to have breakfast with my brother.)...</p><p></p><p>When I look at a new rule set/game, I immediately start to think one of two things:</p><p></p><p>1) Does my preferred VTT have the rule set already supported so I can just plug-n-play and/or</p><p>2) How difficult would it be to program/enter the rule set into my preferred VTT. </p><p></p><p>If the answer to #1 is yes, I'm more likely to pick up the game. If the answer to #1 is no, I then look at #2. If the answer is much past Simple or Quick, I stop looking at the game.</p><p></p><p>For example, I'd love to run a Star Trek Adventures game on Fantasy Grounds. However, the rule set is not supported except for a few fairly well made community rule sets. But even those rule sets take a bit of work to get them polished. </p><p></p><p>Now, I could and am capable of spending the time and effort to get a rule set together. But... and dis is a big butt... er.. but there are so many other things I could spend that time on that it's just not worth the effort to me.</p><p></p><p>Same with The Expanse RPG. I have a theme/extension all set up to run the game, but I don't have the data entry completed for the Reference Module. I stopped doing it because the ROI wasn't good enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc_Klueless, post: 7788456, member: 261"] And another thing that's changed for me (I was thinking about this on the way to have breakfast with my brother.)... When I look at a new rule set/game, I immediately start to think one of two things: 1) Does my preferred VTT have the rule set already supported so I can just plug-n-play and/or 2) How difficult would it be to program/enter the rule set into my preferred VTT. If the answer to #1 is yes, I'm more likely to pick up the game. If the answer to #1 is no, I then look at #2. If the answer is much past Simple or Quick, I stop looking at the game. For example, I'd love to run a Star Trek Adventures game on Fantasy Grounds. However, the rule set is not supported except for a few fairly well made community rule sets. But even those rule sets take a bit of work to get them polished. Now, I could and am capable of spending the time and effort to get a rule set together. But... and dis is a big butt... er.. but there are so many other things I could spend that time on that it's just not worth the effort to me. Same with The Expanse RPG. I have a theme/extension all set up to run the game, but I don't have the data entry completed for the Reference Module. I stopped doing it because the ROI wasn't good enough. [/QUOTE]
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