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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9745147" data-attributes="member: 50987">(woops, sorry about the double poll option.  I've got VTTs on the brain today, I guess.)Looks like a full 95% of us buy our digital content from DriveThruRPG, with crowdfunding and direct-from-publisher nearly tying for 2nd and 3rd place, respectively.  That made me curious: how many DriveThruRPG products are being produced for VTT platforms?To find out, I went to DriveThruRPG, and did a search for "VTT."  This was just a plain, unfiltered, unrefined search across all titles...rulebooks, supplements, add-ons, maps, tokens, everything tagged for VTT.  It returned 20,056 titles.  That's...a lot more than I expected to see.  Like, quadruple.  I swear the last time I checked (probably during the first few months of the pandemic lockdowns) it was less than 3k.This is good news for folks who play online, right?  I decided to dig in a little more.  I wanted to know how many of these were platform-specific, and for which platforms?So next, I searched for "Roll20."  It returned 7,207 titles...which is about 36% of the total VTT matches.  So if you play on Roll20, you will find about 7200 products on DriveThruRPG that claim to be compatible with your platform of choice.  I think that's pretty awesome.Then I searched for "Foundry VTT."  It returned 3,200 titles.  And since these two terms are often combined into a single term, I also did a search for "FoundryVTT," and got another 627.  That's a total of 3,827 titles, or about 19% of the total VTT matches.  So if you play on Foundry, and if you shop at DriveThruRPG (which nearly all of us seem to do, according to this poll), you'll find about 3800 products to use.  Which is rad. A search for FantasyGrounds returned 22 titles, and "Fantasy Grounds" returned 5371.  That's a total of 5393 product matches, or 27%.  I didn't expect to see FG have as many offerings at DriveThruRPG, but I'm not mad about it.And of course there is going to be plenty of overlap here: products made for Roll20 aren't necessarily exclusively for Roll20 only, and things like maps and tokens (the vast majority of virtual products) can be used on any VTT platform for any game.  This was just a plain, unrefined search of product tags and descriptions, not a scientific Anything.  If you feel like your favorite VTT platform is being maligned or misrepresented here, I welcome (polite) corrections.</blockquote>

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