Right so D&D has always been inspired from wargames, and combat and such occurs on a grid, with measurements and dice rolls. With the pandemic virtual tabletop

Right so D&D has always been inspired from wargames, and combat and such occurs on a grid, with measurements and dice rolls. With the pandemic virtual tabletops blew up and Hasbro (let’s call them what they really are, one of the largest game companies in the world) wants a piece of this action, or maybe all the pieces for that matter. I play online using a virtual tabletop and while we often just use our imaginations, the VTT keeps track of our character sheets, our current equipment, our gold amounts, a log of all our dice rolls and what skill we were rolling. I used a 3D modeling program to make screenshots that I use as tokens for my character. Our DM runs multiple games and the virtual tabletop is also a note taking app that allows his notes to correspond to objects in the game, attached to certain places, or the entire campaign. Like a specialized Evernote. He couldn’t keep track of all the games he runs without it (or he could but it’d be harder). It makes things a lot easier than just logging onto a zoom call and playing pretend. All this convenience would be a lot more expensive if it was just through the one official source. I understand what they’re doing but it’s going to stifle the innovation that’s been happening in this space and finally get D&D to be a “video game” like they tried with 4th edition.