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<blockquote data-quote="ArwensDaughter" data-source="post: 8188882" data-attributes="member: 6804968"><p>Another vote for owlbear rodeo, at least as a starting point. Your question is “should we start using a vtt?” Meaning, as I understand it, that you are wanting to assess if VTTs are for you and your group, and if they will add/improve anything for you all. Owlbear rodeo has (by far!) the easiest learning curve of the various VTTs. It is light and simple. It will let you try out the VTT experience without having to spend a lot of time and effort learning a more complicated system. If you try it and you and your group like it, you can the asses if you are comfortable with what it provides or if you want more bells and whistles and look to another system. The learning curve is so shallow, I don’t think you will feel like it was time wasted, whether you decide VTTs aren’t for your group, or that you want a more powerful VTT. (Obviously if you stick with owlbear, it’s not time wasted) </p><p></p><p>A couple of things to know about owlbear if you go that route 1) you need to save/bookmark the url, since there isn’t a login or account feature. 2) everything is saved in local browser memory, so you need to prep on the device you will be running the session from. (And I’ve only done so from a computer, not sure if it mobile can store stuff in memory, although I do know that players can access it from a mobile device)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArwensDaughter, post: 8188882, member: 6804968"] Another vote for owlbear rodeo, at least as a starting point. Your question is “should we start using a vtt?” Meaning, as I understand it, that you are wanting to assess if VTTs are for you and your group, and if they will add/improve anything for you all. Owlbear rodeo has (by far!) the easiest learning curve of the various VTTs. It is light and simple. It will let you try out the VTT experience without having to spend a lot of time and effort learning a more complicated system. If you try it and you and your group like it, you can the asses if you are comfortable with what it provides or if you want more bells and whistles and look to another system. The learning curve is so shallow, I don’t think you will feel like it was time wasted, whether you decide VTTs aren’t for your group, or that you want a more powerful VTT. (Obviously if you stick with owlbear, it’s not time wasted) A couple of things to know about owlbear if you go that route 1) you need to save/bookmark the url, since there isn’t a login or account feature. 2) everything is saved in local browser memory, so you need to prep on the device you will be running the session from. (And I’ve only done so from a computer, not sure if it mobile can store stuff in memory, although I do know that players can access it from a mobile device) [/QUOTE]
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