D&D (2024) I am highly skeptical of the Unreal VTT

[Reynard]

Not skeptical that it will come out, but skeptical that it is a good way to play D&D. I honestly believe that the fancier the VTT, the more it detracts from anything not combat, and makes it harder to run things on the fly or even homebrew prepped.

Thoughts?

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

I call it the Second Digitization of the hobby.

 

[Havrik Stoneskimmer]

I recall the vaporware 4e VTT.

I don't have a particularly powerful PC (I don't play video games that much and when I do it's on the PS4 or Switch) and I'm skeptical about how smoothly it would run an Unreal Engine VTT.

 

[rooneg]

Do not want. I mean if it floats your boat go for it, but it's just not what I want for my game.

 

[Imaro]

Eh, with the cost of getting a proper miniature collection going for the game... this may be a good alternative even for in-person games depending on the price. I wouldn't be adverse to hooking it up to the mounted tv and using it for more complicated combats.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I guess I should be careful how much I spend on roll20 going forward

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Not skeptical that it will come out, but skeptical that it is a good way to play D&D. I honestly believe that the fancier the VTT, the more it detracts from anything not combat, and makes it harder to run things on the fly or even homebrew prepped.

Thoughts?

Straight-up agree 100%, specifically agree that the fancier the VTT, the more it detracts from TToM games.

However, the devil is in the details. If it's always trying to be super-fancy it'll be awful. But if it's something where you can kind of use it pretty simply if you want it might be fine.

Curious to choose UE5 given obviously no-one is particularly familiar with it. So it may be quite a while before we see the VTT as the devs "skill up" on it.

 

[Havrik Stoneskimmer]

I'm interested to see what direction they go in with this. It seems to me that WotC has been moving further and further away from heavily grid-based play as time has gone on.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I am too lazy to copy and paste images into Roll20. No way I'm going to be able to make enough use of this thing to be worth it.

 

[Umbran]

Curious to choose UE5 given obviously no-one is particularly familiar with it. So it may be quite a while before we see the VTT as the devs "skill up" on it.

Anything but the most recent version of an engine would be a bad move, in terms of product maintenance.