taustinoc wrote:Watching the video, it's too much like a video game for me. If I want to play a video game, I'll play a video game. If I want to play a multi-player video game, I'll play a multi-player video game. There are far better examples out there.
It's really not like a video game at all... It has no AI. Unless you equate "being close to real life" as being a video game (i.e. I can pick up a token and throw it across the table if I want, knocking other things over.)
(Their price is low enough I'd be tempted to buy it just to play around, but apparently, there's no way to get it without Steam, and I refuse to install Steam on my computer. They have too long a history of updates that mess up computers, even to the point of not being able to boot.)
Funny you should mention that... I feel nearly the same way about Steam... since it wants to be on all the time and I'm fairly certain it's basically spyware (like *everything* else these days.) But this thing got me to install it (I don't have it load on startup and I close it down when I'm not using TTS). The reason for it is so that you can access their "Workshop" which is, essentially, shared Steam cloud storage where you can download thousands of assets and prepared games/tables. Don't let the DLC fool you. There is a ridiculous amount stuff you can instantly import into TTS for free.
For example, lets say you'd like to have some tokens from the
Pathfinder NPC Codex... wouldn't you know it, someone has already prepared
348 virtual pawns, ready to go (i.e. everything in that book).
Maybe you want to use 3d tokens instead... look up "Miniatures" and be wowed. One 5e Miniature table alone has 300+ 3d minis to use. Want to drop some trees... no problem finding tons of models, etc. Heck, in that past people have worried that if MT was 3d the problem would be assets for 3d usage... not a problem with TTS since it uses the Steam workshop.
In fact, here is the current listing of stuff in the workshop:
Board Games (6,731)
Card Games (5,743)
Strategy Games (4,757)
Trading Card Games (1,419)
Role-playing Games (2,548)
Original Games (1,586)
Dungeons (1,383)
Backgrounds (784)
Custom Models (3,822)
Templates (867)
Scripting (764)
Misc (3,432)
Each of those is, typically, a "table" of user created/adapted stuff. Like the "table" of pawns I was talking about above. The community creations and assets sharing there is insane.