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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8393776" data-attributes="member: 7026617">It goes even beyond that though; a lot of people clearly expect a VTT to automate some elements of resolution, but no one asks why that's mandatory there, but you can do otherwise face to face.I mean, I get some issues; having a die roller utility built in can at least be really desirable when playing with strangers, or for people who really like to see the die rolls as GMs.But, while convenient, why does the VTT have to track hit points, monitor conditions, and all that?&nbsp; We get by fine without it face to face.&nbsp; But some people seem to take it as a given the VTT will do that or its unusable.Can I be a little blunt here?Compared to running high level encounters in D&amp;D 3e or some other games I can think of, that's easy. That doesn't mean it can't be more than you want to deal with (and the tendency for all D&amp;D derived games to make every damn thing a special case is one of the things that helped develop my dislike of exception based design--people talk about how hard Hero is to run, but once you understand how the major effects operate, you've learned what you'll need to bookkeep every encounter ever, something I can't say with even some relatively simple D&amp;D-sphere games) but again, no harder than it would be face to face, and I've run worse.Or, more likely, don't have a good system for managing the bookkeeping to do so.&nbsp; Which, again, is legit, but I've seen this sort of objection from people to specifically VTT usage of games without baked in support, who would cheerfully run them fact to face, and that makes no sense to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8393776, member: 7026617"] It goes even beyond that though; a lot of people clearly expect a VTT to automate some elements of resolution, but no one asks why that's mandatory there, but you can do otherwise face to face. I mean, I get some issues; having a die roller utility built in can at least be really desirable when playing with strangers, or for people who really like to see the die rolls as GMs. But, while convenient, why does the VTT have to track hit points, monitor conditions, and all that? We get by fine without it face to face. But some people seem to take it as a given the VTT will do that or its unusable. Can I be a little blunt here? Compared to running high level encounters in D&D 3e or some other games I can think of, that's [I]easy[/I]. That doesn't mean it can't be more than you want to deal with (and the tendency for all D&D derived games to make every damn thing a special case is one of the things that helped develop my dislike of exception based design--people talk about how hard Hero is to run, but once you understand how the major effects operate, you've learned what you'll need to bookkeep every encounter ever, something I can't say with even some relatively simple D&D-sphere games) but again, no harder than it would be face to face, and I've run worse. Or, more likely, don't have a good system for managing the bookkeeping to do so. Which, again, is l[I]egit,[/I] but I've seen this sort of objection from people to specifically VTT usage of games without baked in support, who would cheerfully run them fact to face, and that makes no sense to me. [/QUOTE]

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