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Mike Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
18096 total appearances

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

A note came out that Roll20, and this is actually taken from the Roll20 Discord server, this gets into my conversation about the importance of electronic tools, is that Roll20 had plans. So it's important to note, this is, you know, we're watching things happen, right? One of the things that happened was Roll20 bought, or Roll20 and DriveThruRPG combined. They still are referred to as Roll20.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

A note came out that Roll20, and this is actually taken from the Roll20 Discord server, this gets into my conversation about the importance of electronic tools, is that Roll20 had plans. So it's important to note, this is, you know, we're watching things happen, right? One of the things that happened was Roll20 bought, or Roll20 and DriveThruRPG combined. They still are referred to as Roll20.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

A note came out that Roll20, and this is actually taken from the Roll20 Discord server, this gets into my conversation about the importance of electronic tools, is that Roll20 had plans. So it's important to note, this is, you know, we're watching things happen, right? One of the things that happened was Roll20 bought, or Roll20 and DriveThruRPG combined. They still are referred to as Roll20.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Roll20 and DriveThruRPG together then also bought Demiplane. And Demiplane is still operating, according to the people at Demiplane, still operating independently from it. But you know that that can't be the case over the long term. There's no reason to have two different groups building character builders for two different platforms that are both underneath the same company.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Roll20 and DriveThruRPG together then also bought Demiplane. And Demiplane is still operating, according to the people at Demiplane, still operating independently from it. But you know that that can't be the case over the long term. There's no reason to have two different groups building character builders for two different platforms that are both underneath the same company.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Roll20 and DriveThruRPG together then also bought Demiplane. And Demiplane is still operating, according to the people at Demiplane, still operating independently from it. But you know that that can't be the case over the long term. There's no reason to have two different groups building character builders for two different platforms that are both underneath the same company.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Why would you combine? Why would you buy them if your plan wasn't to do some kind of consolidation? So that means Demiplane, Roll20, and DriveThruRPG are now all one company, right? A big company. And Tales of the Valiant is available on Demiplane in a compendium form. So you can go and view all of the rules on Demiplane and read it all, but there is no character builder.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Why would you combine? Why would you buy them if your plan wasn't to do some kind of consolidation? So that means Demiplane, Roll20, and DriveThruRPG are now all one company, right? A big company. And Tales of the Valiant is available on Demiplane in a compendium form. So you can go and view all of the rules on Demiplane and read it all, but there is no character builder.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Why would you combine? Why would you buy them if your plan wasn't to do some kind of consolidation? So that means Demiplane, Roll20, and DriveThruRPG are now all one company, right? A big company. And Tales of the Valiant is available on Demiplane in a compendium form. So you can go and view all of the rules on Demiplane and read it all, but there is no character builder.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And Demiplane, they were calling it 5e Nexus, I think. was going to be a 5E character builder that you could use to build that stuff. But now Roll20 is building a D&D 2024 character builder that's external from the rest of the VTT. I've tried it out. I think it's not bad. There's clearly bugs and everything like that, but it's a very complicated situation and a complicated system.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And Demiplane, they were calling it 5e Nexus, I think. was going to be a 5E character builder that you could use to build that stuff. But now Roll20 is building a D&D 2024 character builder that's external from the rest of the VTT. I've tried it out. I think it's not bad. There's clearly bugs and everything like that, but it's a very complicated situation and a complicated system.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And Demiplane, they were calling it 5e Nexus, I think. was going to be a 5E character builder that you could use to build that stuff. But now Roll20 is building a D&D 2024 character builder that's external from the rest of the VTT. I've tried it out. I think it's not bad. There's clearly bugs and everything like that, but it's a very complicated situation and a complicated system.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So on January 23rd on their Discord server, Roll20 canceled their plans to make a Tales of the Valiant character sheet, which is a big disappointment. And honestly, a lot of people feel like they had bought the Demiplane version of this stuff or the Tales of Valiant material on Roll20 in order to have a character builder and not having a character builder is a big reason why.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So on January 23rd on their Discord server, Roll20 canceled their plans to make a Tales of the Valiant character sheet, which is a big disappointment. And honestly, a lot of people feel like they had bought the Demiplane version of this stuff or the Tales of Valiant material on Roll20 in order to have a character builder and not having a character builder is a big reason why.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So on January 23rd on their Discord server, Roll20 canceled their plans to make a Tales of the Valiant character sheet, which is a big disappointment. And honestly, a lot of people feel like they had bought the Demiplane version of this stuff or the Tales of Valiant material on Roll20 in order to have a character builder and not having a character builder is a big reason why.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So now there's lots of talk about, well, how do you get refunds for it and how is that going to be done and stuff like that? Because it's a really big deal. Not having that character builder is a really big deal and honestly, a big disappointment. And I don't feel like their response to it is they say, you always know. Here's a trick. You ready for a Mike Shea trick?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So now there's lots of talk about, well, how do you get refunds for it and how is that going to be done and stuff like that? Because it's a really big deal. Not having that character builder is a really big deal and honestly, a big disappointment. And I don't feel like their response to it is they say, you always know. Here's a trick. You ready for a Mike Shea trick?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So now there's lots of talk about, well, how do you get refunds for it and how is that going to be done and stuff like that? Because it's a really big deal. Not having that character builder is a really big deal and honestly, a big disappointment. And I don't feel like their response to it is they say, you always know. Here's a trick. You ready for a Mike Shea trick?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Whenever somebody says something like, we want to be transparent about where things stand, you know that the stuff they're going to say is not actually transparent. I remember this when Wizards of the Coast said, in order to be fully transparent about the OGL, we wanted to clarify some rumors and stuff. I actually watched my old video about that where I was like, you didn't.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Independent Spaces for RPG Discourse โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

Whenever somebody says something like, we want to be transparent about where things stand, you know that the stuff they're going to say is not actually transparent. I remember this when Wizards of the Coast said, in order to be fully transparent about the OGL, we wanted to clarify some rumors and stuff. I actually watched my old video about that where I was like, you didn't.