D&D 5E More details about the VTT from D&D Beyond

[Bill Zebub]

Double post.

 

[Mallus]

What are the odds of a Day One macOS support? That isn't just the phone/tablet code meant for a touch interface.

Not that I'm interested in jumping in anytime soon.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

While we don't use a VTT, everyone in the games I play use DDB and run their character from a screen instead of a piece of paper. It doesn't really change anything. The difference between being remote and playing in person is still huge, the interaction is just so much easier in person than remote.

Agreed that in person vs online is very different.

 

[mamba]

What are the odds of a Day One macOS support?

Unreal Engine supports the Mac, everything else is up to WotC

 

[Zaukrie]

God I would have liked that demo video so much more if the players had all been in remote locations. It makes me cry to see people playing D&D in person, at the same table, and all of them looking at their laptops.

Seriously? They were in person to interact and keep it easy for a demo.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Seriously? They were in person to interact and keep it easy for a demo.

Yes, seriously.

If the point was "Look how much fun you can have even if you can't be together physically!" I would support it.

But the message of this video was, "Getting together with friends is so much more fun if you have a laptop in front of you!"

EDIT: I wonder to what extent the divide on this issue is defined by who has children younger than 18 and who doesn't. I definitely react negatively to anything that encourages young people to spend more time in front of screens. It's hard enough already.

 

[Oofta]

Yes, seriously.

If the point was "Look how much fun you can have even if you can't be together physically!" I would support it.

But the message of this video was, "Getting together with friends is so much more fun if you have a laptop in front of you!"

EDIT: I wonder to what extent the divide on this issue is defined by who has children younger than 18 and who doesn't. I definitely react negatively to anything that encourages young people to spend more time in front of screens. It's hard enough already.

Gee, to me the message was "here's a VTT we think is cool". Anything else you read into it is up to you. I started watching a video* that had this same thing. That somehow we're going to be "forced" to play this way and that D&D [as we play it now] is dead.

Good grief. If you like the concept and want to use it when you're playing in person, it will be an option. Meanwhile absolutely nothing changes for those that don't want it. Of course they'd love it if people shelled out money to use this for every game. Selling things is what pays their salaries. But my battle mat is not going to spontaneously combust, my minis are not going to melt, by dice are not going to evaporate.

Maybe I'll use the VTT, maybe I won't. But there will never be a requirement to use the VTT.

*Stopped watching because it was just two guys whining about this and how the reveal was just a big sales push ... followed almost immediately segueing into a sales pitch for their own product.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Gee, to me the message was "here's a VTT we think is cool". Anything else you read into it is up to you. I started watching a video* that had this same thing. That somehow we're going to be "forced" to play this way and that D&D [as we play it now] is dead.

Good grief. If you like the concept and want to use it when you're playing in person, it will be an option. Meanwhile absolutely nothing changes for those that don't want it. Of course they'd love it if people shelled out money to use this for every game. Selling things is what pays their salaries. But my battle mat is not going to spontaneously combust, my minis are not going to melt, by dice are not going to evaporate.

Maybe I'll use the VTT, maybe I won't. But there will never be a requirement to use the VTT.

*Stopped watching because it was just two guys whining about this and how the reveal was just a big sales push ... followed almost immediately segueing into a sales pitch for their own product.

That's funny, because I didn't say a single thing about being forced to use it. If you want to take my criticism and morph it into totally different arguments made by people who aren't me....well, that is up to you.

 

[Oofta]

That's funny, because I didn't say a single thing about being forced to use it. If you want to take my criticism and morph it into totally different arguments made by people who aren't me....well, that is up to you.

Not sure how else to interpret "the message of this video was, "Getting together with friends is so much more fun if you have a laptop in front of you!"

But maybe I'm just biased because I wasted 20 minutes listening to two guys complaining about how D&D is dead because it's going to become a video game or something.

 

[Malmuria]

Not sure how else to interpret "the message of this video was, "Getting together with friends is so much more fun if you have a laptop in front of you!"

How do you take that statement and arrive at the conclusion that it's the equivalent of claiming that people are going to be forced to use the VTT? At most it's a slightly sarcastic gloss on the dnd direct video.