Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8446246" data-attributes="member: 16814">Frankly, this is exposing your ignorance, not actually making the point you seem to think is some gifted insight into play.&nbsp; I mean, go learn something?For the record, I use Roll20 for my 5e game, and very much use maps and tokens and lean into the automation of the system.&nbsp; For that game, this makes sense.&nbsp; It's not very useful, and in some ways it gets in the way for Blades in the Dark, and maps there are truly pointless -- they actively go against the conception of the game.&nbsp; For a game like Cthulhu Dark, I just do not see any use whatsoever to needing a battlemap at all, for any real reason.&nbsp; It would, again, be damaging to the game to try to use one.&nbsp; If this sounds alien to you and you're struggling to understand it, then it's because you lack the depth of experience you think you have.&nbsp; VTTs and battlemats are extremely useful for some games, and not at all to harmful to others.&nbsp; Claiming otherwise is just ignorance.Also for the record, I'm a huge fan of online RPGs, and have had a Roll20 premium account for 4 years and somewhere near $500 of map packs and art packs alone, which I adore.&nbsp; I don't even log onto Roll20 for my Blades game -- only need Discord.&nbsp; Use the voice channel to play, drop occasional notes and things in chat during play, and then use the chat channels for between session asynchronous upkeep and updates.&nbsp; More than enough.&nbsp; I have the Blades character sheets and asset pack for Roll20 and just found it's hampering and gets in the way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8446246, member: 16814"] Frankly, this is exposing your ignorance, not actually making the point you seem to think is some gifted insight into play. I mean, go learn something? For the record, I use Roll20 for my 5e game, and very much use maps and tokens and lean into the automation of the system. For that game, this makes sense. It's not very useful, and in some ways it gets in the way for Blades in the Dark, and maps there are truly pointless -- they actively go against the conception of the game. For a game like Cthulhu Dark, I just do not see any use whatsoever to needing a battlemap at all, for any real reason. It would, again, be damaging to the game to try to use one. If this sounds alien to you and you're struggling to understand it, then it's because you lack the depth of experience you think you have. VTTs and battlemats are extremely useful for some games, and not at all to harmful to others. Claiming otherwise is just ignorance. Also for the record, I'm a huge fan of online RPGs, and have had a Roll20 premium account for 4 years and somewhere near $500 of map packs and art packs alone, which I adore. I don't even log onto Roll20 for my Blades game -- only need Discord. Use the voice channel to play, drop occasional notes and things in chat during play, and then use the chat channels for between session asynchronous upkeep and updates. More than enough. I have the Blades character sheets and asset pack for Roll20 and just found it's hampering and gets in the way. [/QUOTE]

Verification