Yes, because all my players have PCs with 3d acceleration and are wiling to install a multi-gigabyte client /s

Roll20 has basically supplanted all other VTTs simply by the virtue of being accessible though the browser. All you need for a session is a way to illustrate the scene, roll some dice, maybe have a character sheet upload feature, and that's it. This seems like a way to shove microtransactions down the user's throat and a whale milking machine. No thanks.

It is a complete misunderstanding of what TTRPG players want and need. This is mostly because they are so focused on profits instead of their player and creator community.

If they really cared about their community they would have just created an API to access the rules and allowed third parties to pay for access. Then we would all have the ability to move to various 3rd party services and keep access to the rules and supplements that you purchased. They would have also created an open market place for 3rd party vendors to sell new content on the same system. Those things serve the community.

If they had done that first and then decided to provide a virtual table top that also competed in the same marketplace, I'd be more OK with it. But that doesn't seem like that is what they are trying to do. They are building a walled garden. I've seen every walled garden fail under its own stupidity or weight, or both.

If you want 3d go https://menyr.nogstudio.com/, game master engine or talespire.

I like foundry. I also liked astral. I didn't like r20 much. Owlbears is OK. Playing in just a Mural is also more than fine.

The dnd vtts purpose is to be a walled garden that only plays dnd, ever, and keeps you playing dnd and putting microtransaction in front of you so you pay and play only dnd EVER

I get the feeling their system will just take all the worst parts of video gaming - micro transactions, walled content, and bugs - and make D&D worse. I'm betting it will be a corporate profit first, community second approach.

What would be awesome is something that makes the table top experience easier and blends the best elements of VTT with in-person gaming. I'd love to a hybrid system in which physical tokens can interact with a digital table top.

It’s interesting to me that we could already see the signs of some of this just based on what they defined to break the VTT-specific rules of the OGL update, which was anything that had effects that made it too video-game-y. Showed they fundamentally misunderstood what VTTs are for and do six months ago, and it seems that hasn’t changed.

As a DM, I tinker with 2d maps for hours to get them "just right." I can't imagine the amount of extra effort it'll require to get 3d maps perfect.