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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5432979" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'll admit, I'm biased.&nbsp; I've been playing online virtual tabletop games for about eight years now.&nbsp; First in OpenRPG and now in Maptools.&nbsp; Since it has been a while, I tend to forget (or repress) what it was like in the early days - learning curves, building groups and whatnot.&nbsp; I honestly do find playing online to be every bit as fun as face to face.I find that people role play a lot more in VTT, speaking in character almost 100% of the time, extremely little off topic talk and really good quality play.&nbsp; People are less shy about being a hot elf chick when they don't have to actually physically try to pull it off.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />That being said, I've seen a fair number of people simply pooh pooh online gaming as being better than not gaming at all, but, not by much.&nbsp; I've even seen a fair number of posters claim that they'd rather not game at all than play over a VTT.&nbsp; That's pretty strong.So, what's wrong with VTT play?&nbsp; What would a VTT have to become or change in order to make it equal to tabletop play in your mind?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5432979, member: 22779"] I'll admit, I'm biased. I've been playing online virtual tabletop games for about eight years now. First in OpenRPG and now in Maptools. Since it has been a while, I tend to forget (or repress) what it was like in the early days - learning curves, building groups and whatnot. I honestly do find playing online to be every bit as fun as face to face. I find that people role play a lot more in VTT, speaking in character almost 100% of the time, extremely little off topic talk and really good quality play. People are less shy about being a hot elf chick when they don't have to actually physically try to pull it off. :D That being said, I've seen a fair number of people simply pooh pooh online gaming as being better than not gaming at all, but, not by much. I've even seen a fair number of posters claim that they'd rather not game at all than play over a VTT. That's pretty strong. So, what's wrong with VTT play? What would a VTT have to become or change in order to make it equal to tabletop play in your mind? [/QUOTE]

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