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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Basalt77" data-source="post: 5086136" data-attributes="member: 84328">I'm fairly new here and I know that a lot of the Devs for the various VTTs peruse the boards. I hope that I'm not stepping on any toes with this. I've tried about a dozen different VTTs in the past little while, trying to find something that would work for me and my friends. Almost all of them have great ideas and tools but I honestly haven't found one that really gets me where I want to go. A little bit of disclosure, I use the software in a face to face environment. I put the player view of the VTT up on a big screen while I conrol things with a laptop. Obviously this makes the networking side of the equation of less importance to me. I also play D&D 4E for the most part so my 'wants' are heavily tilted in that direction. And now onto the point of the post. I'll get it started. The perfect software for me would give me all of the tools that d20pro has along with the mapping abilities of MapTools and some of the polish of Fantasy Grounds. Of course my pie in the sky impossibly perfect software would license the rulesets from each of the game publishers and then offer supplements for when new books are published. That way you could pay for a given ruleset, pay for the supplements that you're going to be using and not have to think about all of the ability/power data entry like you do with most current solutions. I may be in the minoirty but I'd pay as much for those rulesets/supplements as I would for the books themselves.  Getting people into the game becomes very daunting when you take a big pile of books and set it in front of a newbie. That's why I like the DDI Character Creator so much. You just sit them down in front of it and it guides them through every possibility. If I could give them a similar experience in actual game play I'd be pretty damn happy. Basically I wish WOTC would get off their asses and either contract one of these companies that makes existing VTTs to make a D&D4E official version or license their materials out to them. Their ugly combination of lazy and paranoid isn't winning them too many new customers. So what are you looking for in a VTT that you're not currently seeing? *edit* P.S. - I would also love to be able to import characters from DDI character creator and/or Hero Labs.</blockquote>

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