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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phloog" data-source="post: 5449520" data-attributes="member: 59219">To me, the best D&D games are like a book...the DM/author gives descriptions, but it's up to my brain to interpret those and to fill in the details...so if the NPC is a "grizzled old veteran", I can decide in my mind what he looks like.The more completely supplied the imagery is, the harder it is to dismiss that imagery in favor of my own imagination.  It becomes less like a good book and (flames coming I'm sure) more like a video game or movie.I use Dwarven Forge, but i think they work because we see them as just walls, and we know they aren't exactly what is there - - they are just pretty ways to do the tactics.  If you give me a system that draws/animates every NPC and every scene, my imagination feels cheated.So most importantly I don't WANT this sort of graphically slick stuff...frankly for me, the VTT would be better if it looked like an old vector graphics video game - - show me the walls and the placement of individuals, pits, etc.  This doesn't make me a Luddite/grognard - - I LOVE video games...but for me the more information my eyes and ears get that specifies how things are, the less free my imagination is.And IF they went this way, they would need a TON of content/options to ensure things would always fit with everyone's style of world</blockquote>