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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Basalt77" data-source="post: 5086554" data-attributes="member: 84328">I understand what you're saying and I agree with you to some extent. That's why I'd like to see WoTC contract a group that already has a decent product that can be tailored to their needs. As far as free is concerned, I'm not at all interested in free if it costs me time. There are 100 more productive things I could be doing than punching in formulas for every little ability that my players might need. I don't want to have to mess with all of the coding and troubleshooting. I'm willing to pay to not have to do that stuff. I'm willing to pay again to get the suplements and rules updates. I think there are aother people out there in the same boat. As far as WoTC goes, they've already proven that they understand what I'm looking for with their various DDI utilities. I can generate a character, a monster or find any rule from any one of their books quicker than I've ever been able to before and with a better sense of understanding. That's the kind of stuff I'm looking for and I think these are the kinds of things that we need to push the level of acceptance for VTTs up amongst gamers. Not every one of us can code or have any knowledge of the various graphic design tools that are avialble. I happen to be familiar with both but I still don't want to spend my time doing that kind of stuff. I don't think I'm alone in this.  Picture this: you'd like to get into D&D and you'd like to be able to play with friends around the world. You don't know much about coding or graphics but you play Call of Duty every night with your friends and you can't see how this is any different. So you go looking for what's avaialble and find a ton of stuff, but everything requires a significant time investment before it's usable. You give up in frustration and go back to playing Call of Duty. I've seen this happen again and again in the short time that I've been looking into VTTs. If WoTC was to endorse a product it would be a very hard day for the rest of the VTTs on the market because, if it was a decent product, it would be the defacto standard in a matter of months. D&D is the 500lb gorilla of the pen and paper world and that isn't going to change any time soon.</blockquote>

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