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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_cat" data-source="post: 3306624" data-attributes="member: 30061">Point taken - some people don't like graphics etc. Some do however.Just to clarify - I'm referring only to 100% live DM'd NWN play - with a real person (or people) controlling all NPCs, Monsters and environmental effects. I hated single player NWN and scripted multiplayer NWN and won't play it.With live DM'd you get immersive play and fully interactive NPCs etc in realtime, as you would I assume over a chat based RPG, and what I liked in addition was the visuals, sound, and FX and the potential flexibility the engine allowed when coupled with player and DM imagination. In live DM'd play in NWN if the game engine can't cope we woudl just go to text based play/RP until that particular issue/scene was resolved.In the example you gave about a dog I suspect we would have dealt with it in much the same way - a player would send a tell to the DM explaining the plan, the DM would respond and possess the dog and other NPCs as necessary to RP the situation, where we couldn't get our avatars to perform the correct animation we would speak them - *edges closer to the dog, holding out one hand open hoping the dog will sniff or lick it* - the DM and all other PCs respond as necessary to this as though they are seeing it. Easy.I was, I admit, very lucky in the other players/DMs I found online (by much trial and error) as we had games and adventures that I still remember years later - but these abiding good memories are due to the flexibility and quality of the players and our ability to work with, and where necessary beyond or outside the game engine I suspect, rather than any specific superiority of the medium the game was played in.End of the days its personal prefernce and what gaming you can get. If you like VTT good on you, I like NWN more and overall I prefer face to face tabletop gaming.I've never (fortunately) been limited in the choice of game available to me, and  I hope I never am, but if the choice I faced ws no gaming or VTT, I'm fairly sure I'd take VTT.</blockquote>

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