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<blockquote data-quote="malraux" data-source="post: 4614252" data-attributes="member: 24352">I personally am skeptical that the virtual table top makes good business sense.&nbsp; It doesn't synergize well with the rest of the DDI offerings (ie, the compendium works well as a portal for previously published monsters, feat, etc; the Character builder looks like it will do the same for characters).&nbsp; The work done to develop a race, feat, item, etc gets used in several locations.&nbsp; The character visualizer and VTT don't share in that.&nbsp; At best, it might pull from work already done for the dungeon tiles and minis lines, but I'm not sure about that.In addition, I'm not sure that the marginal dollar chasing is worth it (relative to better fleshing out of the magazines, updates to the compendium, etc or even in other DnD product lines).&nbsp; The cost of DDI would have to go up if they offer the VTT (as wotc has hinted several times).&nbsp; But the VTT's extra revenue will only be from people who won't use Maptools but will use an official WotC product minus the subscribers for whom the extra cost is too much.&nbsp; Are there that many people who won't use maptools but would use the VTT?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="malraux, post: 4614252, member: 24352"] I personally am skeptical that the virtual table top makes good business sense. It doesn't synergize well with the rest of the DDI offerings (ie, the compendium works well as a portal for previously published monsters, feat, etc; the Character builder looks like it will do the same for characters). The work done to develop a race, feat, item, etc gets used in several locations. The character visualizer and VTT don't share in that. At best, it might pull from work already done for the dungeon tiles and minis lines, but I'm not sure about that. In addition, I'm not sure that the marginal dollar chasing is worth it (relative to better fleshing out of the magazines, updates to the compendium, etc or even in other DnD product lines). The cost of DDI would have to go up if they offer the VTT (as wotc has hinted several times). But the VTT's extra revenue will only be from people who won't use Maptools but will use an official WotC product minus the subscribers for whom the extra cost is too much. Are there that many people who won't use maptools but would use the VTT? [/QUOTE]

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