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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 9519094" data-attributes="member: 2013">Seconded.I feel like newer gamers want a VTT that calculates bonuses from all their status effects, keeps their character sheets, tracks all their rolls for them, etc. I tried Foundry and Fantasy Grounds and found it was all way too much bother. I want about a 5 minute setup (upload maps, character tokens, maybe draw crude walls to block line of sight and turn on fog of war... and then let's go).For me, the need was more about "I don't want to have to draw a map with erasable markers every time we have a combat encounter" - theater of the mind is great for most things, but when combat comes around, I think it's important to have everyone "one the same page" so I needed something to display a common map. And it has a die roller so I know people aren't fudging their rolls. That and a good mic/headset with some sort of group voice chat app (Discord, Zoom, and even Skype or Teams will do the trick) are probably all you need if you are an old school gamer that is used to theater of the mind or "theater of the mind adjacent" (by which I mean "grid for combat encounters only") gaming.It's also generally the same setup I use for physical gaming - the Owlbear Rodeo session is paired with a TV or a projector for when a combat map is needed, but everything else (including die rolls) is done physically.</blockquote>