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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9212245" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Weirdly, I've touched upon this issue before.Wait, did I say weirdly? I guess, given that I normally measure my verbiage by weight, and not by character, it's not that weird.Anyway, I have serious concerns about the move to a more standardized use of DDB and associated VTT. I'm not going to go into it too much, at this point, but this change will effect how we play the game. Simple things like &quot;defaults&quot; and &quot;ease of use&quot; will quickly become norms. To take an easy example- if the VTT takes off, and becomes a standard option, then what does that do for theater of the mind?Or here's another one- imagine that there is great integration with WoTC and (certain) 3PP. And that there is the ability, with some difficulty, to customize it for homebrew and non-supported 3PP. That's not bad, per se, but that will immeasurably change things in terms of how people start to view DIY. These aren't normative judgments; the sun will rise, the sun will set, and I'll still have books (and the ability to create my own games). Life and technology move on. But I think that it is certainly true that this will have an effect on the ways that people play, and on the game itself. (As an aside, I am reasonably confident that a lot of the smaller tweaks to OneD&amp;D are being put in place to make the game more easy to run in terms of VTT. Because yes, the medium is the message.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9212245, member: 7023840"] Weirdly, I've touched upon this issue before. Wait, did I say weirdly? I guess, given that I normally measure my verbiage by weight, and not by character, it's not that weird. Anyway, I have serious concerns about the move to a more standardized use of DDB and associated VTT. I'm not going to go into it too much, at this point, but this change will effect how we play the game. Simple things like "defaults" and "ease of use" will quickly become norms. To take an easy example- if the VTT takes off, and becomes a standard option, then what does that do for theater of the mind? Or here's another one- imagine that there is great integration with WoTC and (certain) 3PP. And that there is the ability, with some difficulty, to customize it for homebrew and non-supported 3PP. That's not bad, per se, but that will immeasurably change things in terms of how people start to view DIY. These aren't normative judgments; the sun will rise, the sun will set, and I'll still have books (and the ability to create my own games). Life and technology move on. But I think that it is certainly true that this will have an effect on the ways that people play, and on the game itself. (As an aside, I am reasonably confident that a lot of the smaller tweaks to OneD&D are being put in place to make the game more easy to run in terms of VTT. Because yes, the medium is the message.) [/QUOTE]

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