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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9428595" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I think the tool can be successful if they do two things well.  First, a lot of people are visual and generations have grown up with video games.  WotC already has the 2D market with the Maps program, this is for people who want something a little more visually evocative.Second is how easy it is to put together decent maps.  I got decent at Roll20 during COVID days, but it could take hours to make even a relatively simple map.  I would personally never use something like this to map out something as extensive as entire video game levels, but that's not really the goal.  I couldn't imagine how long that would take in Roll20, if it could even handle it.  At most you're going to be doing a simple outdoor scene, a city street, a handful of rooms.  Also depends on how easy it is to import an existing map and tweak it for your particular needs.I would never play a game on Maps (or Roll20) if I were playing in person.  Even on games I play with mixed local and remote players I have a camera pointed at our table.  But this?  I could see using it once in a while for special battles.  Whether I actually do or not is a whole other story.EDIT: P.S. some of the stuttering on the screen may just be caused by them taking videos of a monitor which has issues with refresh rate.</blockquote>