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<blockquote data-quote="Norton" data-source="post: 8354727" data-attributes="member: 7031494">It's a tool that every single one of my 20 players uses, so for all intents and purposes it is essential and does represent the D&amp;D experience for us. I'm not sure I could overstate its importance since without it, I probably don't get to run games. I will say it's less important at the real table, but we haven't been at a real table in yonks and only one of my groups will ever meet in person. So we need something, and since it hooks into Roll20 and there isn't really another available interface, we have little choice. And all online systems fail. With the disparity of Wifi signals and computer resources it's unlikely things will every be perfect. I have my criticisms of it as well, but it makes managing numerous campaigns, creating characters, and tracking encounters far more easy to do than plugging in a hodgepodge of my own methods. New players have access to a lot of learning tools, as well. Half of them would never purchase the PHB if it weren't available and integrated into their DND Beyond account. It's a lot of things, but unimportant to new players definitely isn't one of them. If anyone has any suggestions on how to better run several campaigns online, I am wide open to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norton, post: 8354727, member: 7031494"] It's a tool that every single one of my 20 players uses, so for all intents and purposes it is essential and does represent the D&D experience for us. I'm not sure I could overstate its importance since without it, I probably don't get to run games. I will say it's less important at the real table, but we haven't been at a real table in yonks and only one of my groups will ever meet in person. So we need something, and since it hooks into Roll20 and there isn't really another available interface, we have little choice. And all online systems fail. With the disparity of Wifi signals and computer resources it's unlikely things will every be perfect. I have my criticisms of it as well, but it makes managing numerous campaigns, creating characters, and tracking encounters far more easy to do than plugging in a hodgepodge of my own methods. New players have access to a lot of learning tools, as well. Half of them would never purchase the PHB if it weren't available and integrated into their DND Beyond account. It's a lot of things, but unimportant to new players definitely isn't one of them. If anyone has any suggestions on how to better run several campaigns online, I am wide open to them. [/QUOTE]

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