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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9425698" data-attributes="member: 93670">Indeed, a VTT is absolutely basically a "GM tool"...  It would be more than a little justified being skeptical & questioning a misalignment of priorities If something that is "basically a GM tool" were being marketed exclusively to players & only player facing features were getting talked up.  There is a wide difference between a VTT built for usability with the GM in mind & something like flowscape built for eyecandy & the developer's once toddlerish(?) kid...   I don't think that anyone doubts the ability for a professional developer paid to construct adventure maps & such while working closely with the development team of that software... Trouble comes in with the fact that it ceases to be a VTT when the target user is closer to that than "a DM".  LaTeX can make some real pretty documents sure, but there's a reason why those pretty  .TEX files are so uncommon.It would be mighty strange if Max Maya & so on were to suddenly start marketing to theater goers talking up the movie watching experience or something.  Under such a situation We could rightly expect the folks who do professional & hobbyist VFX work for movies & video to scratch  their heads & express concern if those companies were exclusively selling their software to the passive consumers  of the work done by individuals in those programs rather than to the folks who actually use those software packages.  They would also be completely justified in expressing concerns raised by statements made in that mistargeted marketing. Wotc focusing their VTT outreach exclusively at players  while saying concerning things to people with actual experience using the more advanced* vtts.  My god we've got one poster claiming that it takes no more effort to make 3d maps with 3d assets than it does to make 2d maps with 2d assets & others saying we should ignore all of the concerning things just silently giving wotc the benefit of the doubt until wotc decides to take the seal of what is currently little more than a vaporware techdemo.* roll20  barely qualifies & is pretty much bleeding edge webapp from a decade ago with a few extra features. That's not to say that roll20 doesn't have a particular niche that it targets well, just that experience with roll20 is not likely to be especially relevant to leveling the learning curve with modern VTTs</blockquote>

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