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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kafen" data-source="post: 5436269" data-attributes="member: 11273">Good point... For campaigns, it is virtually required to have a place where both  players and the GM are able to compare notes, chat, and work out the long term details in posting format. It is true of games dating all the way back to the Conan snail mail games - logistics.  The forums serve as a third party that stores your data which takes the stress of storing your game data for many online players.Mind you, I advocate frequent backups with modern media. Dropbox is an awesome backup if you have the log files. ===============================Another benefit to forums in conjunction with VTT is community integrity. As long as the forum community chats, blogs, bickers, and has fun with each other in the forum, the VTT community is going to be an extension of the forum community which offers a solid core of users to both services. Also, it serves as a backup meeting place for people to meet if the VTT lobby or network is not working - a common issue. With Windows 7, the 'home' and secure networks hosting issue appears quite a bit. It takes some tech work and link trading to get some people on the same VTT.Forums offer all of these services to the VTT community. It's the virtual world as we know it, today. Heck, even most VoiP hang out groups use forums as a secondary system in case the chat line goes down....and as a sidenote, usenet functions in much the same way for people that hate forums. There are many aging gamers all over the world that still use usenet to talk DND. VoiP, VTT, bloggers, twitter posters, and forum gamers miss out on quite a bit.</blockquote>

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