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What VTT(s) do you most dislike and why? (Defenders welcome to defend)
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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 9582689" data-attributes="member: 6685541"><p>Out of all the VTTs I've definitely had the worst experience with Existenz. I signed up for the beta, and they promised it would be a really immersive VR RPG experience. But it's so immersive that I keep thinking I'm quitting the game and then it turns out I'm just in another level of it. It's quite frustrating.</p><p></p><p>Now please excuse me while I eat my dinner / make a gun out of a disgusting bug carcass.</p><p></p><p>...</p><p></p><p>Okay in reality I have experience with three VTTs:</p><p></p><p>1) Tabletop Simulator. This is what we started with during the pandemic. It's not great at doing any of the math of D&D, but it does most accurately replicate the experience of sitting around a table. The fact that you can accidentally knock over miniatures or roll your dice off the table was actually fantastic. That said it was very slow and clumsy to use.</p><p></p><p>2) Roll20. This is the VTT I got to know best. To me it's the most extreme of things that are great (simple to use, quick to load) with things that are maddening (trying to integrate music, lighting slowing everything down, no way to free draw with a pad or touch screen).</p><p></p><p>3) Foundry. The DM running our 5e game loved Foundry. But she spent more time playing with all the fidgets and mods than prepping an adventure.</p><p></p><p>When I'm running or playing in an RPG online, I want to really feel like I'm at a table. Extra bells and whistles, like animated backgrounds or macros that calculate everything for me, actually take me out of the game. So between all three I've had the most positive experiences from Roll20.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 9582689, member: 6685541"] Out of all the VTTs I've definitely had the worst experience with Existenz. I signed up for the beta, and they promised it would be a really immersive VR RPG experience. But it's so immersive that I keep thinking I'm quitting the game and then it turns out I'm just in another level of it. It's quite frustrating. Now please excuse me while I eat my dinner / make a gun out of a disgusting bug carcass. ... Okay in reality I have experience with three VTTs: 1) Tabletop Simulator. This is what we started with during the pandemic. It's not great at doing any of the math of D&D, but it does most accurately replicate the experience of sitting around a table. The fact that you can accidentally knock over miniatures or roll your dice off the table was actually fantastic. That said it was very slow and clumsy to use. 2) Roll20. This is the VTT I got to know best. To me it's the most extreme of things that are great (simple to use, quick to load) with things that are maddening (trying to integrate music, lighting slowing everything down, no way to free draw with a pad or touch screen). 3) Foundry. The DM running our 5e game loved Foundry. But she spent more time playing with all the fidgets and mods than prepping an adventure. When I'm running or playing in an RPG online, I want to really feel like I'm at a table. Extra bells and whistles, like animated backgrounds or macros that calculate everything for me, actually take me out of the game. So between all three I've had the most positive experiences from Roll20. [/QUOTE]
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