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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8854491" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>3d VTTs will either not really go very far or become a major constraint on DM and player flexibility and creativity. WotC's push presumably has to do with impressing Hasbro investors and executives who don't really understand these weird nerdy book games we play, but are much more comfortable throwing millions at something that looks like a videogame.</p><p></p><p>As a stockholder I wish Hasbro wouldn't waste my money on this idiot boondoggle. As a player I worry about what it will do to new groups and the hobby at large if it actually catches on. As a sometimes paid DM I worry about the expectations it might place on me to work within a much more constrictive framework if it did somehow become the default expectation of new players.</p><p></p><p>Fundamentally even the most full-featured 3d VTT you can imagine will be harder to find and create assets for than any reasonably designed 2d VTT. Sure technology will advance, but until AI art gets to a Star Trek holodeck level of perfectly designing things from simple instructions, 3d will always be much harder to create for than 2d, and thus have vastly fewer assets available and fewer people ready to create some themselves. I'm sure some 3d VTTs will be really cool, but if I want to have my options constrained in the name of slick graphics there's legions of great computer games to play. Heck, you can even create, share, and play D&D modules for <em>Solasta Crown of the Magester</em> using a modified 5e rule set.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8854491, member: 6988941"] 3d VTTs will either not really go very far or become a major constraint on DM and player flexibility and creativity. WotC's push presumably has to do with impressing Hasbro investors and executives who don't really understand these weird nerdy book games we play, but are much more comfortable throwing millions at something that looks like a videogame. As a stockholder I wish Hasbro wouldn't waste my money on this idiot boondoggle. As a player I worry about what it will do to new groups and the hobby at large if it actually catches on. As a sometimes paid DM I worry about the expectations it might place on me to work within a much more constrictive framework if it did somehow become the default expectation of new players. Fundamentally even the most full-featured 3d VTT you can imagine will be harder to find and create assets for than any reasonably designed 2d VTT. Sure technology will advance, but until AI art gets to a Star Trek holodeck level of perfectly designing things from simple instructions, 3d will always be much harder to create for than 2d, and thus have vastly fewer assets available and fewer people ready to create some themselves. I'm sure some 3d VTTs will be really cool, but if I want to have my options constrained in the name of slick graphics there's legions of great computer games to play. Heck, you can even create, share, and play D&D modules for [I]Solasta Crown of the Magester[/I] using a modified 5e rule set. [/QUOTE]
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