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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5278983" data-attributes="member: 22779">I've long been a proponent of the online game.  I've recently become a convert of Maptools, which has turned out to be pretty decent most of the time.  Currently having some connectivity issues with one player, but, that's pretty much par for the course.I will never understand why the bigger players in the RPG industry haven't put out a dedicated VTT.  To me, this is the way in which to draw a much larger audience than we have currently.  It's the only way to appeal RPG's outside of the suburbs.  People in rural areas are always going to have problems finding groups and people inside the cities have too many things competing for their free time to make getting a group of five people together an easy thing to schedule.VTT solves the geography problem.To me, what I'd like to see is a company fully embrace it.  Put out a game, start demoing it on a dedicated VTT with the game dev's running games.  How many people would line up to play with Erik Mona or Mike Mearls or Piratecat or any number of others?  You start off by running something like the D&D Encounters program - short, more or less one shots - and build an entire community from there.There's obviously some important step I'm missing because I don't know why it hasn't been tried.  Is a VTT setup like Fantasy Grounds or Maptools really that complicated to build?  I'm not a programmer, so I have no idea what kind of work a VTT entails.  But, if a bunch of guys in their basements working in their spare time can build Maptools,  I would think that you could do something pretty decent in a short amount of time with professional programmers.</blockquote>

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