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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8857539" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>[USER=13085]Steel_Wind [/USER] - I can totally see it working like that. The base VTT will have some stock tiles - dungeon, town, outdoor - the sort of stuff that comes pre-packaged with pretty much any program like this. As you buy different adventures though, those adventures will likely have custom tiles and whatnot for that adventure. So a Curse of Strahd will have "Gothic Fantasy" tiles - and you will likely be able to buy those separately from the adventure as well. Ghosts of Saltmarsh will have your nautical tiles and maybe some underwater stuff - again which will come both with the module already preset and then as a tile pack you could buy.</p><p></p><p>Will you get 100% of everything on the first day? Not a chance. Not going to happen. </p><p></p><p>But, I look at the Fantasy Grounds modules I've bought over the years - Saltmarsh, Dragonheist, Candlekeep Mysteries, Spelljammer - and those would likely come with a naval pack, a city pack, a weird space pack, and a ... library pack? Whatever. The maps can pretty easily be repurposed and modified, just like I do now.</p><p></p><p>One big difference though will be the print books might still keep the clean lines of a Dyson Logos map - easy to reproduce on a dry erase board - but the VTT will likely have the tilesets. </p><p></p><p>I wonder if that will bump the price of online modules vs print ones. No idea. Currently, the VTT modules are the same price as the print ones - but, then you get Dyson Logos maps with LOS functions. Very functional, but, not the prettiest things in the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8857539, member: 22779"] [USER=13085]Steel_Wind [/USER] - I can totally see it working like that. The base VTT will have some stock tiles - dungeon, town, outdoor - the sort of stuff that comes pre-packaged with pretty much any program like this. As you buy different adventures though, those adventures will likely have custom tiles and whatnot for that adventure. So a Curse of Strahd will have "Gothic Fantasy" tiles - and you will likely be able to buy those separately from the adventure as well. Ghosts of Saltmarsh will have your nautical tiles and maybe some underwater stuff - again which will come both with the module already preset and then as a tile pack you could buy. Will you get 100% of everything on the first day? Not a chance. Not going to happen. But, I look at the Fantasy Grounds modules I've bought over the years - Saltmarsh, Dragonheist, Candlekeep Mysteries, Spelljammer - and those would likely come with a naval pack, a city pack, a weird space pack, and a ... library pack? Whatever. The maps can pretty easily be repurposed and modified, just like I do now. One big difference though will be the print books might still keep the clean lines of a Dyson Logos map - easy to reproduce on a dry erase board - but the VTT will likely have the tilesets. I wonder if that will bump the price of online modules vs print ones. No idea. Currently, the VTT modules are the same price as the print ones - but, then you get Dyson Logos maps with LOS functions. Very functional, but, not the prettiest things in the world. [/QUOTE]
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