To Map in VTT or not to map in VTT

[Redrobes]

Very cool stuff!

I hope you don't mind if I add some additional questions since I haven't really looked at ViewingDale?
These are all specific questions for what I use so they are especially of interest to me.

1. So can you do hex maps as well?
2. Does it support vision blocking in addition to the fog of war?
3. Does it support light?
4. How does it handle custom dice mechanics?
5. Does it support macros?
6. Can you assign properties to tokens and have those properties picked up by the macros?
7. Does it have any sort of initiative tracking system?

1. Yes
2. No
3. No but I feel like it should. It supports dark tho - its easy to have shadows but not clear areas that brighten than base. I have had a few maps of late that could have done with that so I think this might get added. I think this is different from MapTools light tho. I don't think MapTool does light the way I would like to have light.
4. Its an expression parser which handles any resonable sized dice. Thats free so give it a try.
5. Yes - try it.
6. No - its definitely staying game agnostic
7. Not a built in calculator type thing but its easy to do init order via tokens.

[RPMiller]

Thank you for the info. I'll take a look at the expression parser. The dice used in the Hero System give any VTT a run for its money and most fall short of providing everything that we need to have the VTT handle all the dice in an effective manner, so I'm very curious to see what it can do. Perhaps if you ever have time to run a demo that I can connect to and we can chat about it and and I can give you specific questions that would be great.

Regarding #6, a VTT can still do this and be system agnostic if the user is allowed to define the properties that are used to begin with. MapTool recently implemented this and it works great. There are at least 4 different systems that I've seen people using with it.

Anyway, thanks again for the answers and I don't want to derail my own thread, LOL, so I'll ask further questions in PMs or you are welcome to contact me for a demo session. I am interested in learning more as I wasn't even aware of it when I was first looking into VTTs.