Virtual Table Top (VTT) support

[mlangsdorf]

Originally Posted by GodBeastX

I am, however, a fan of various other softwares, and have never had a problem getting GURPS working fine in them. I'm not sure what Steve Jackson needs to do to to enhance my VTT experience. It's been just fine.

Things SJ Games could do to enhance the VTT experience:

* Clarify the online policy to make it explicit on how much automation you can share with other people. The way I read it right now, if I write a macro that measures the range between two tokens and calculates the range penalty from the SSR, I can't share that with other people.

* Make it easy for GCA4 (and GCS) to produce macros for common VTTs and frameworks, and have the export sheets part of the official GCA release.

* Allow VTT frameworks/base campaigns to shared on the GURPS Resources thread.

* Release image files for the maps in published adventures as both the final jpg/png and as a layered document for GMs that want to edit them. Ideally, these image files should be available with and without the hex grid. They shouldn't be adapted for any particular VTT, but should let any GM quickly import them into the VTT of their choice. They don't need to be free either, though it'd be great if buying a PDF also got the maps for that PDF.

* Provide full campaign files for published adventures, intended for a popular VTT, as an additional purchase.

The first 3 don't require a lot of work from SJ Games. The last two require increasing amount of investment and I don't expect SJ Games to do them unless there is some measurable payoff. Still, SJ Games has the image files for the DF adventure Mirror of the Fire Demon, and it would be great if they were made available.