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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9736270" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I'm surprised that six pages in nobody has mentioned the importance of use cases in regards to shaping what the minimum needs are. A vttt chosen for online play and a vtt chosen for in person at the table play are going to have some overlap and even more wildly different "pfft that's totally unimportant to me" differences.</p><p></p><p> A couple good examples of that spectrum are owl bear and arkenforge.</p><p></p><p>§tgry fill a <em>similar</em> minimum niche for an online game. I've used both, but neither fits my needs .owlbear rodeo and roll20 have various features that are unquestionably nice quality of life features for an online game, but for an in person game where I can reach across the table and say " let me see your sheet" without needing a voip session or character sheet manager many if not all of those features pale in comparison to the value of one PC (mine) and a touch panel enabled tvbox being able to support anyone at the table being able to move a token by touch and all three support rolling dice if needed. Arkenforge has an editor light years more advanced than the other two and the touch support for in person play not provided by the others</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9736270, member: 93670"] I'm surprised that six pages in nobody has mentioned the importance of use cases in regards to shaping what the minimum needs are. A vttt chosen for online play and a vtt chosen for in person at the table play are going to have some overlap and even more wildly different "pfft that's totally unimportant to me" differences. A couple good examples of that spectrum are owl bear and arkenforge. §tgry fill a [I]similar[/I] minimum niche for an online game. I've used both, but neither fits my needs .owlbear rodeo and roll20 have various features that are unquestionably nice quality of life features for an online game, but for an in person game where I can reach across the table and say " let me see your sheet" without needing a voip session or character sheet manager many if not all of those features pale in comparison to the value of one PC (mine) and a touch panel enabled tvbox being able to support anyone at the table being able to move a token by touch and all three support rolling dice if needed. Arkenforge has an editor light years more advanced than the other two and the touch support for in person play not provided by the others [/QUOTE]
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