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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5206454" data-attributes="member: 16069">I want the VTT, I've found a 'real live' game now but if it wasn't for maptools and once a month meet ups in various locations around the UK then I wouldn't have played D&D for... oh 12-15 years.I'm forty something and at work far too often, I've read the CNN article about Wizards Encounters for those of us with a fast and furious lifestyles; finish the VTT, surely it's a no brainer- is it just me that has these problems trying to get a game? I don't have a local gaming store, or at least not one that's less than an hour away- it doesn't play D&D 4e anyway. I would happily pay to buy on-line tiles/backdrops map furniture, individual minis- all of it; and a subscription on top, I don't care much about the graphics- although by choice the old skool Vandal Hearts style characters would be nice. The guys I used to play D&D with are on the other side of the country or planet, approx. 10% of us still play in any number of MMORPGs (although only for approx. 2-3 hours a week), and spend much of the time wishing we were playing D&D online. When I see or meet up with old players we all end up talking about the time when Rob's Rogue sacrificed himself to save the party etc. There must be 30 of us spread out with partners, children, jobs and way too much to do, and yet... a VTT that combined all the rules and made it easy for us to play (like 4e is)... I'd have a choice of games.We've used Maptools and Skype, and it's been great, until someone starts having problems with it- or else sometimes we get 10-12 moves in and then realise that we've forgotten this rule or that rule, and we have to go back. Then skype starts to break up. Then one of the players can't load the map- it just keeps getting to 45/46 and we all wait for 20 minutes of our two hour session rebooting and restarting PCs and programmes.Is it really too much to ask, I'd settle for checkers on a board that had different names if it had the rules built in.Rant over, as you were.</blockquote>

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