Q: Why did you design your own system
instead of using some of the other online board gaming systems
available, like Roll20.net? What advantages does Vorpal Board have
over other systems?
A: I considered and tried Tabletop
Simulator, Tabletopia and Roll20 and while they are good tools that
work well, there were a couple of limitations based on how I wanted
to use them. First, I generally was playing with 2+ people on one
end (my wife and I). We didn’t want to both be tied to a computer
and using virtual implementations of the game. Second, there were
games we wanted to play that weren’t available on the available
platforms or the version of the game on the platform was not optimal.
And third, we found that playing purely digital, perfectly rendered
implementations took away some of the magic of playing a board game.
It started to feel like just playing a video game at the same time,
which is not the experience that we were looking for.
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